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POPULATION.
The estimated Population of the Colony excluding the Army and Navy (excluding the New Territory) to the middle of 1903 is as follows :
British and Foreign Community.
The whole Colony, Civil Population,
Victoria Registration District.-Land Population,
10,080
Chinese Community.
.196,890
V. Harbour
33,930
Kaulung Shaukiwan
Land
58.220
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Land
10,105
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Boat
6,300
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Aberdeen
Land
3.720
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Boat
6.000
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Stanley
Land
885
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Boat
1,000
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The whole Colony
Land
.259,820
Boat
47.230
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The whole Colony.
Land and Boat Population,...307,050
British Foreign & Chinese)
Community excluding 317.130 Army and Navy,......
This shews an increase of 14,014 over the estimate for 1902. This increase can be divided into the classes :-
1. Increase in British and Foreign Community.
2. Chinese Community increase in Victoria Registration District,4,090
264
3.
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Kowloon, Regn. District, ...6,660
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Floating Population, .... Villages of Hongkong,
.2.475
525
Total......
.14,014
Army. The total strength of the troops in the Hongkong Command on June 30th, 1903, was 4,100, made up as follows:-
British troops.-Officers 73, British Non-Commissioned officers and men
1,238, British women 77, and British children 126.
Native troops.--British officers 18, native officers 45, Non-Commissioned
officers and men 2,485, native women 15, native children 21.
Navy. The total numerical strength of Officers and men on the China Station on 30th June, 1903, was 8,905, and the average number resident in the Colony during the year ended 30th June, 1903, was 4,401.
The total population of the Colony including Army and Navy was therefore 325,631 made up as follows :-
Civil population, Non-Chinese,.
Chinese population,.
Navy,....
Army...
Total,.....
10,080
.307,050
4,401
4,100
.325,631
The total population, comprising Europeans, Americans and Portuguese, is for 1903 12,771, as compared with 12,105 in 1902.
The white population amongst the Army and Navy is 5,933 for 1903, as against 6,063 in 1902.
This difference and the fact that the Portuguese element has tended to decease of late years accounts for the apparent decease of the resident white population of the Colony and the smallness of the real increase which appears when the fact that there are less naval and military forces is taken into account.