THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MAY 11, 1906.
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The average strength of troops in Garrison during 1905 was 127 British Officers and 1,629 British N. C.O.s and men with 38 Indian Officers and 1,995 Indian N. C.O.s and men, and 69 men of the Chinese Royal Engineers. There were also 342 British women and children, and 74 Indian women and children, making a total of 416.
The average strength of the British fleet was as follows :-) -Europeans permanently in the Colony 285, Europeans temporarily in the Colony 2,730, Chinese permanently in the Colony 153, Chinese temporarily in the Colony 83--making a total of 3,251.
The Chinese boat population (exclusive of the New Territory) is estimated for 1905 as 54,154 and the number of registered boats belonging to the Port for the year is as follows:-
Fishing and Trading Junks,
Cargo Boats, Lighters and Sampans,
.6,771 ...5,171
The registered fishing boats belonging to the New Territory were distributed as follows:--
Registered at Cheung Chau,..
95
""
Tai 0,.....................
Tai Po,
""
"
Deep Bay,
Sai Kung,
Long Kit,
Total,
1,867
900
1,949
.1,435
669
952
.7,772
The population of the Colony is primarily divided into Chinese and non-Chinese. The non-Chinese comprise a white population of 10,835 of whom 5,722 are civilians while 5,113 belong to the Navy and Army. The coloured races (non-Chinese) number 6,837 and include East Indians, Asiatic Portuguese, Japanese, Philippinos, Malays, Africans, Persians and a few others.
The Civil population is essentially a male adult one. At the last census (1901) the population of males was 72.6 per cent. of the total civil population.
Of the Chinese population 72.9 per cent. were males, and over half the civil population (50-2 per cent. of the Chinese and 564 per cent. of the non-Chinese) were between the ages of 20 and 43 years.
The City of Victoria is divided into ten health districts with a Sanitary Inspector in charge of each district. These ten districts are grouped into five larger districts of two each and a Senior Inspector has general supervision and control of the Sanitary work in each of such groups.
Kowloon has one Senior Inspector with two district Inspectors under his supervision. With the abatement of plague during the last two years the former five plague Inspect- ors in Victoria have been reduced to four, two Inspectors dividing the district of the fifth Inspector between them in addition to their former districts.
The supervision of the sanitary work in the villages of Hongkong and in Kowloon City and Sham Shui Po is done by the Police Inspectors in their respective districts.
The following Table shows the number of Chinese houses and floors and their inmates per house and per floor in the City of Victoria :-
City of
Victoria
Health
District.
One Two Three Four Five Total storey storey storey storey storey Dwell- Dwell- Dwell Dwell- Dwell- Dwellings.
ings. ings.ings. ings. | ings.
Total
Floors.
Average No. of Floors per Dwelling.
Number of
persons per House.
Number of
persons per Floor.
161 428 206
2
3 341 580
82 Nil. 827 82 Nil.
1,006
1,763
2.1
14.7
2,753
2.7
241
6-9
8.7
Most of the Chinese of
3
Nil.
6
19
Nil.
27
77
2.8
this district lived in quarters
attached to offices.
4
87
6
7
8
562 408 132 502 333 52 433 369 36 447 377 83 616 294 31,002
6 1,039 46 1.015
3,408 3.2
25.7
7.8
3,334
3.2
24.6
7.5
25 925
3,050
33
23.3
7:0
24 901
3,058
3.3
18.4
5'4
9
10
33
3,211 3.2 440 498 103 Nil. 1,064 2,809 2.6 334 363 35 Nil 765 1,930 2.5
22.7
7.0
23.6
8.9
16.9
6.6
Totals and Averages.
297 1,909 4,226 2,035
104 8,571
25,393
2.89
22.4
7:5