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APPENDICES

Appendix XI (See page 161)

RETURN OF SERIOUS OFFENCES

Class 1 Offences against the Person

M

For the period, January to December, 1954

Crime

Number of Cases Reported

Number of Cases cleared up by Charge

or

Summons

Number of Persons Charged or Summoned

16 & under 17 & over Juvenile Adult

1. Murder

36

30

1

47

2. Murder-Attempted

16

16

12

3. Manslaughter

2

1

1

4. Assaults-Serious

329

241

10

255

5. Throwing Corrosive Fluids

7

6

6

6. Abortion

A

2

2

7. Unnatural Offences (Buggery,

etc.)

8

7

10

8. Criminal Intimidation

9. Kidnapping

5

4

6

10. Rape

4

1

2

11. Indecent Assault

59

49

4

44

12. All Other Offences Against

Women & Girls

6

5

6

13. All Other Offences Against

the Person

1

Total Serious Offences Against the

Person

475

364

16

391

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