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MAGISTERIAL ENQUIRIES INTO DEATHS.

TABLE A.-RETURN OF ALL DEATHS REPORTED DURING THE YEAR 1893.

FORMAL ENQUIRIES HELD.

BURIED WITHOUT FORMAL Enquiries.

Very much

Men. Women. Boys. Girls. Total. Men. Women. Boys. Girls. decomposed; Total.

sex not ascertainable.

NATIONALITY.

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Europeans and Americans, ...

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Indians and Malays,

2

Chinese,

43

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4

4

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60

87

14

118 82

223

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311

Chinese.

TABLE B.-RETURN OF FORMAL ENQUIRIES DURING THE YEAR 1893.

FINDING.

Europeans and Americans.

Indians.

Total for 1892,... 45

4

Accidental death,

Accidental death by burning,

Accidentally drowned,

Death by drowning,

Death by self hanging,

Death by misadventure,

Total.

Men.

Boys.

Men.

Men.

Women. Boys. Girls.

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Death by opium poisoning self administered,

Death by dislocation of the spine while being executed in due process of law within the walls of the Victoria Gaol,.

Death ensued from hemorrhage occasioned by a wound in the throat supposed to have been inflicted by a man named Li Yau,

Death from natural causes,.

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Death from rupture of the spleen,

Death from rupture of the spleen occasioned by a blow or

blows inflicted with the fists by one or two persons whose names are unknown but can be pointed out,

Death from blood poisoning occasioned by a wound received

in the foot from a dynamite explosion,

Death from injuries received from a fall from the cookhouse window of No. 26 Quarry Bay occasioned by the deceased jumping through the said window while endeavouring to effect his escape on the occasion of the entry of a European timekeeper of the Taikoo Sugar Refinery with three Indian Watchmen in order to stop some gambling that was going on in the room of No. 26 adjoining the said cookhouse, Death from injuries received from falling down the hold of the

German steamship Holstine, Death from shock and asphyxia caused by the wound in the

throat,

Death occurred from a self inflicted bullet wound,.. Death occasioned by the collapse of the building consequent npon initial structural defects worked upon by lapse of time, Death resulted from injuries occasioned by the collapse of a

pier in Godown known as No. 117 Praya East,.. Found drowned,

Found dead, death according to the medical evidence having resulted from some irritant poison the presence of which in the remains of the stomach analysis has been unable to detect,

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