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TABLE B.-RETURN OF Formal Enquiries during the Year 1890.

FINDING.

Men.

Men.

Men.

Wo-

men.

Men.

Accidental death, Do.,

The Jurors consider that the officials in charge

of the work were to blame in allowing so much earth to be placed against the wall,

Accidental drowning,

Congestion of the lungs,.

Death by drowning,

Death from hemorrhage,

Death from natural causes,

Death from syncope,

Death from strangulation,

Death from injuries received from a fall or other causes,

Death by misadventure,

Death from hanging, the deceased having hanged himself by his

own wilful act,

Death from burning or from injuries received during a fire in No. 68,

Bonham Strand West from which they were unable to escape,....... Death resulted from injuries, received from an accidental fracture

on the leg,

Death from accidental explosion of a six pounds Hotchkiss shell; as to the possession of which by the deceased there is no satisfactory evidence forthcoming,... Death from the collapse of a wall underneath which the deceased

was buried,

Death from blood poisoning occasioned by a wound on the foot, Death resulted from a wound in the head occasioned by a shot from a fowling piece, self inflicted during a temporary aberration of the reason,

Deceased met with his death from hemorrhage occasioned by

ruptured spleen which was caused by a kick, Deceased died from hœmorrhage of the arterios in front of the brain which pressed upon the brain and produced compression such hemorrhage resulting from a mortal gunshot wound wilfully inflicted upon the deceased by himself, Deceased died from the effects of a wound self inflicted while under

treatment for an attack of ague on board H.M.S. "Meeanee,”. Deceased died from the effects of a fall occasioned by her throwing

herself out of the window in a state of insanity,

Died while bathing,

Died from the effects of a fall in Hung-Hom Docks while painting

a ship,

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Chinese.

Men.

Men.

Wo-

17

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1

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1

1

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235

men.

Boys.

Girls.

Total.

1

5 4 29

1

I

2

1

7

1

1

A

2

1

1

1

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:

1

1

1

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1

1

1

1

T

1

Death from suffocation,

1

7

8

Felo de se,

1

3

1

5

Do. -While in an unsound state of mind,

1

1

Found drowned,

3

1

2

2

10

The deceased on the 6th day of July in the year 1890 did feloniously

kill and slay himself,

1

1

The deceased died by cutting her own throat,

The deceased died by cutting his own throat,

The deceased met with his death by hanging, such hanging being

the act of his own hand wilfully committed,

1

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TTT

1

1

1

1

1

:

The deceased died from the effects of an explosion on board a Chinese Junk at Cap-Shui-moon while being searched by the Chinese Customs officials in Chinese waters,

The jury found that deceased died from dysentery and were of opinion that the continued deprivation of proper food to which in their opinion the deceased was subjected greatly aggravated the disease from which he died,..

Wilful murder against some person or persons unknown, Wilful murder against one Tsang Li,

1

:

1

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Total,

1

7 1

1 54

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:

2

1

3

1

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8

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