REPORT BY THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH OF THE COLONY OF HONGKONG FOR THE YEAR 1895.
SANITARY BOARD.
Members:
Hon. J. H. STEWART LOCKHART, Registrar General.
Hon. F. A. COOPER, Director of Public Works (President).
Hon. Commander W. C. H. HASTINGS, R.N., Acting Captain Superintendent of Police. Dr. J. M. ATKINSON, Acting Colonial Surgeon, (Vice-President).
Dr. FRANCIS W. CLARK, Medical Officer of Health.
N. J. EDE, Esq.
Secretary to the Board:
HUGH MCCALLUM, Esq.
Medical Officer of Health :
FRANCIS W. CLARK, M.B.; D.P.H. CAMB.
Senior Inspector of Nuisances:
Mr. J. R. GERMAIN.
Inspectors of Nuisances.
No. 1 Health District,.. Mr. GALBRAITH MOFFATT.
No. 7 Health District,.. Mr. L. BRETT.
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SANITARY BOARD OFFICES,
HONGKONG, 30th April, 1896.
SIR,--I have the honour to submit, for the information of the Board, the following Report upon the health of the Colony of Hongkong during the year 1895.
POPULATION.
The population of the Colony at the census of 1881 was 160,402, while at the 1891 census it had risen to 221,441, representing an annual increase if 3.277 per cent.; for the purposes of this Report, the civil population has been estimated to the middle of 1895 to be 244,930, the total population being 248,498.
The non-Chinese community comprises only 10,828, of whom 1,759 belong to the Army and 1,809 to the Navy, leaving a non-Chinese civil population of 7,260. This civil population consists of persons of all nationalities, and the European element represents but a small proportion, being estimated at 2,680; of these, some 1,800 are British and the remainder consist of Germans, French, Swiss, etc.; the Portuguese, who numbered at the last census, 2,089, and may be estimated, to the middle of 1895, at 2,230, are for well known reasons, not included among the Europeans.
The remainder of the civil population is composed of Indians, Japanese, Negroes, and natives of Malay and Manila, the Indians being numerically the most important element.
The Chinese number 237,670 and they may be divided into two classes, the land and the boat population, the latter numbering 33,180 and the former 204,490. The Chinese land population is distributed as follows:-
City of Victoria,....................... Kaulung,......................................
Villages,
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