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TABLE B.-RETURN OF FORMAL ENQUIRIES DURING THE YEAR 1997,—Continued.

FINDING.

Euro-

peans.

Chinese.

'Total.

Men.

Men. Women. Boys.

Girls.

3

24

14

1

Brought forward,.......

Death occasioned by the falling of the buildings 248 and 250, Queen's Road West, through the collapse of the party wall, occasioning death by asphyxia in the case of Un Ming and death by shock through injuries received in the case of Lai Tai Sin, there being no sufficient evidence to show what was the immediate cause of the collapse of the party wall,. Death occurred from injuries received from an accidental explosion................... Death resulted from a bullet wound self-inflicted consequent upon mental distress in connection with money difficulties into which he had fallen with the Hongkong High-Level Tramway Co., Ld, of which he had been the Superintendent since 1892,

Death resulting from injuries received through the collapse of the party wall

dividing Houses 92 and 94, Hollywood Road,..........

Death resulting from the effects of a fall from the verandah of the Second floor of Wellington Barracks over which the deceased jumped while in an unsound state of mind,

Drowned by deceased's boat being run down by the Danish S.S. Frejr. Accident due to Deceased having put her helm down instead of up and so attempted to re-cross the bows of the steamer,

Found drowned,

Murdered by some person or persons unknown,

Suicide by cutting her throat whilst temporarily insane, Suicide by drowning whilst temporarily insane,

Suicide by hanging,......

Suicide by hanging whilst of unsound mind,

Suicide by shooting through the head whilst in a state of mental aberration, That deceased came to his death by the collapse of No. 35, East Street due

to the shore having given way,

The Magistrate finds that the death of the deceased was occasioned by injuries received from a fall while engaged in working a piece of machinery on board H.M.S. Undaunted over the side of the ship, and that the fall was occasioned by the use of an old or worn out strand which gave in the hands of the deceased as he pulled at it,

Magistracy, 28th January, 1898.

Total,..

1

3

1

21

5

50

:

2 –

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

11

32

16

4

6

69

H. E. WODEHOUSE,

Police Magistrate.

TABLE C-RETURN OF BURIALS WITHOUT FORMAL ENQUIRIES DURING THE YEAR 1897.

Chinese.

Europeans

and Americans.

Indians

and

Malays,

Reason why no Formal Enquiry was held,

Men. Wonen Boys. Girls. Men. women. Boys. Men. Women.

:

Japanese,

Man.

Sex not

ascertainable.

Found on

Found in

Total.

Land.

Known.

Un-

known.

Barbour.

Known.

Un-

known.

No suspicious circumstances, No evidence and/or decomposed

state of body,

102 19

170 168

2

1

5

2

41

38

17

N

Post Mortem satisfactory.

Suspected persons were tried

for the murder of deceased, . Suspected persons were tried for causing the death of deceased,

Total...

2

1

:

:

128

27

212

208

2

Magistracy, Hongkong, 28th January, 1898.

:

:

1

:

469 70 290 20

89

=:

16

102

55

...

47

21

13

❤

2

7

7

3

♡

...

1

16

602 93

351 20

138

H. E. WODEHOUSE, Police Magistrate,