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The City of Victoria is divided into ten Health Districts with an Inspector of Nuisauces in charge of each District; there are also five Senior Inspectors for the City, each of whom has the general supervision of two Districts while there are also special Inspectors for the work of disinfection, for prosecutions, for the control of the Chinese cemeteries, for drainage work and other matters. Kow- loon is similarly divided into two Health Districts, with an Inspector of Nuisances in charge of each, but has already become so important a suburb-the population having doubled in the last five years- that I think there is now ample scope there for at least three Inspectors and the district should be sub- divided accordingly.
The following table gives the number of Chinese houses and floors (i.e., separate Chinese dwellings in most cases) and the number of inmates per house and per floor in the City of Victoria:
Que- Two- Three-
Four-
Five-
HEALTH DISTRICT.
storey
storey storey
storev
Dwell-
Dwell-
Dwell
Dwell-
storey Dwell-
Total Dwell-
Total Floors.
i
ings.
ings.
ings.
ings.
ings.
ings.
Average Number of Floors per
Number
Number
of
Persons
of Petsons
Dwelling.per House. per Floor.
!
205
412
208
31
856
1,777
2.07
14.7
6.8
N
43
363
505
65
976
2,544
2.60
23.7
9.1
Most of the Chinese in this Dis-
M
31
26
57
140
2.45
trict occupy quarters attached
to European Offices and Dwell-
ings.
21
76
565
283
ગ
5
932
3,004
3.23
25.6
7.9
5
19
146
550
227
I
23
965
2,984
3.09
22.9
7.4
46
:
83
461
262
27
879
2,778
3.16
21.7
6.8
39
458
284
3
785
2,604
3.31
17.4
5.2
x . a
90
616
220
1
928
2,914
3.14
22.2
71
9
14
495 ! 452
89
1,049
2,712
2.58
23.4
9.1
10
360
312
24
747
1,803
2.41
16.3
6.7
Totals and
Averages
382
2,094
4,153
1,484
59
8,174
23,260
2.81
21.6
7.6
The following table gives the acreage and total population of each Health District of the City of Victoria and the number of persons per acre:—-
Built-over
Health Total Area Chinese Non-Chinese District. Acreage. (including Houses. Houses.*
Chinese Population.
Non-Chinese Population (approximate)
Persons per
acre on built-
streets.)
including Troops.
over areas.
1
531
124
856
189
12,100
1,340
108.4
2
243
139
976
1017
23,130
(1,463 Troops
181.9
700
164.
134
57
325
5,640
2,610
61.6
56
54
932
141
23,910
1,200
465.0
29
27
965
31
22,090
250
827.4
30
29
879
7
19,104
60
660.8
7
36
34
785
6
13,656
ΤΟ
403.7
8
49
46
928
3
20,610
30
448.7
9
44
44
1,049
17
24,590
170
562.7
10
252
101
747
52
12,180
522
125.8
1,434
732
8,174
872
177,010
8,415
253.3
There are also some 1,800 Chinese servants, etc., resident at the Peak.
* Exclusive of Barracks,
A certain number of upper floors of Chinese houses are also occupied by non-Chinese in this District.