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ARMS.
2,813 Export permits under Ordinance 8 of 1895 were taken out for the export of
...10,310 Double-Barrelled Guns,.............
Revolvers,
Muskets,
Repeating Rifles,
Swords,.....
Pistols,
Cartridges,
Caps,
Iron Gun,....
Lead Shots,.......
1,836
Carbines,
3,960
Fowling Pieces,........
32
Bullets,
6,185 .......1,544,390
Gunpowder,.....
Blank Cartridges,
108,423 boxes
Fuses,
I
Dynamite,
................................1,115 tbs.
Iron Cannons,
MENDICANTS.
87 320
29
.149,859. .1,052 lbs. 60
.....255 pieces. ..300 lbs. 7
5. In addition to the 250 beggars sent up to the Police Court 477 have been summarily deported ■ to Kowloon City and Canton as follows :-
RETURN showing NUMBER of MENDICANTS sent away by Police during 1895.
HOW OFTEN SENT AWAY,
TOTAL NUMBER
CANTON. KOWLOON.
MACAO. FoocHow.
SENT AWAY,
Once, Twice, Thrice, 4 Times,
126
314
2
4
23
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2
TOTAL,.........
448
27
5
2
132
342
2
1
477
1
PLAGUE.
6. The precautions adopted for the prevention of Plague have already been fully reported on elsewhere.
1 European Police Sergeant, 7 European Police Constables and 16 Chinese Constables were engaged on house to house visitation duty from the 1st to 31st May inclusive, 3 European Police Constables, and 12 Chinese Constables from 1st June to 15th June inclusive, 1 European Police Constable and 4 Chinese Constables from the 16th June to 31st July inclusive. On duty at the Tung Wah Hospital from the 1st May to the 17th July 3 Indian and 3 Chinese Constables.
From the 17th May to 31st July inclusive Inspector QUINCEY and a party of detectives nightly tracked the passengers from the River steamers to their lodgings, with a view of ascertaining if plague was being imported.
There were no complaints against the Police.
Light and Pass Ordinance.
7. The provisions of the Light and Pass Ordinance were enforced from the 23rd November (when notices were issued in the Chinese papers) till the end of the year. The regulation requiring the carrying of a light after 7 p.m. was also adhered to, the result being an almost abrupt termination of all descriptions of offences after night-fall.
Comparing the period between the 25th November, 1894, and the 21st December of the same year with the corresponding period of 1895 exclusive of Light and Pass offences there were 325 fewer cases in the Police Court in 1895.
During the same period there were 8 fewer burglaries reported, viz., 9 in 1894 and 1 in 1895, and 88 fewer cases of larceny.
During the period under review there were 1,450 arrests for breaches of the Light and Pass sections of the Ordinance, of whom 51 were women, amongst that number there being 38 blind singing girls, miserable creatures who belong to the lowest class of prostitutes.
Trade was safeguarded by arranging that head men with passes and lights should accompany
their gangs of coal or cargo coolies to and from their lodging-houses.
A great deal of work was thrown on the Police Office as also on that of the Registrar General, the number of quarterly night passes rising rapidly to over 13,000; it has since risen to 15,000 and annual passes, I believe, to nearly 800.
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