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The Civil population consists chiefly of male adults. At the last Census (1906) the population of males was 70°1 per cent, of the total civil population; at the 1901 Census the proportion was 72-6 per cent, so there has been an increase in the proportion of females (which means an increase in family life among the Chinese) during the past few years.
Of the Chinese population in 1906 70·3 per cent. were males, and over half the civil population (56.9 per cent. of the Chinese and 52:6 per cent. of the Non-Chinese) were between the ages of 20 and 45 years.
The City of Victoria is divided into ten health districts with a Sanitary Inspector in charge of each district. During the year under review these ten districts were grouped into five larger districts of two each and a Senior Inspector had general supervision and control of the sanitary work in each of such groups.
Similarly Kowloon had one Senior Inspector with two District Inspectors under his supervision.
At the end of the year it was decided to abolish the special functions of the Senior Inspectors and to make each District Inspector directly answerable to the Me lical Officer of Health or to one of the Assistant Melical Officers of Health. It is proposed to have a third Inspector for Kowloon. This will enable the staff of Inspectors to be somewhat reduced in number.
There are also four Plague Inspectors in the City of Victoria, two of whom have charge of three districts each, and there is one Plague Inspector for Kowloon.
The supervision of the sanitary work in the villages of Hongkong and in Kowloon City and Sham Shui Po is done by the Police Tuspectors in their respective districts.
The following Table shows the number of Chinese houses and flors and the inmates per house and per floor in the City of Victoria as estimated for the year 1907.
City of One Two Three Four Five Total Victoria. storey storey storey storey storey Dwell- Total
Health Dwell-Dwell-Dwell- Dwell- Dwellings. | Floors. District. ings. | ings. ings. ings. ings.
Average No. of
!
Floors
Dwelling.
per
Number of persons per Dwelling.
Number of
persons per Floor.
1
161
425 214
32 Nil. 832 1,781
2.1
14.8
2
3
351 573
82 Nil. 1,009
2,752
2.7
20.1
6.9
7.4
3 ..
Nil.
11
18
Nil.
Nil.
29
76
2.6
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Most of the Chinese of
this district live in quarters
attached to offices.
5
6
46
7
23
8
.10
*N*****
8
49
566 430
91,062
3,569
3.3
22.1
6.6
2
132 463 321
46 964
3,169
3.3
18.2
5.5
48 437 369
25 925 3,054
3.3
16.9
5.1
49
445 337
24 918 3,084
3.4
20.2
6.0
6
83
616 302
31,010 3,243
3.2
18.0
5.6
362 338
28 470 504 96 69
Nil. 1,098 2,864
2.6
22.9
8.7
80
Nil. 849 2,127
2.5
16.6
6.6
Total and
Averages 1907 Total and Averages
1906..
-346|1,980 | 4,174 | 2,049
1078,696 25,719
2.8
20.0
6.8
-301 1,905 4,143 | 2,050
104 8,503 25,296
2.9
20.4
6.9
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