HONGKONG.
No. 196
REPORTS OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH, THE SANITARY SURVEYOR, AND THE COLONIAL VETERINARY SURGEON, FOR THE YEAR 1904.
Laid before the Legislative Council by Command of His Excellency the Governor.
SANITARY BOARD.
Members.
The Hon. Dr. J. MITFORD ATKINSON, (Principal Civil Medical Officer), President.
The Hon. Mr. P. N. H. JONES, A.M.INST.C.E., (Acting Director of Public Works), Vice-President.
The Hon. Mr. A. W. BREWIN, J.P., Registrar General.
F. J. BADELEY, Esq., B.A., J.P., Captain Superintendent of Police.
Colonel W. E. WEBB, R.A.M.C., Principal Medical Officer, Hongkong and China. EDBERT ANSGER HEWETT, Esq., J.P.
FUNG WA CH'UN, Esq., J.P.
LAU CHU PAK, Esq., J.P.
HENRY EDWARD POLLOCK, Esq., K.C.
1905
AHMET RUMJAHN, Esq., J.P.
SANITARY BOARD OFFICES,
January 23rd, 1905.
SIR,-I have the honour to submit, for the information of the Board, the following Report upon the Health of the Colony for the year 1904.
AREA.
The Board's jurisdiction extends to the Island of Hongkong, which has an area of 29 square miles, and to that portion of territory on the mainland between the shore and the first range of the Kowloon Hills extending from the village of Tseung Kwan O in Junk Bay, on the East, to the village of Kau Pa Hang on the West with a sea frontage of about thirteen miles and an area of about sixteen square miles. Old Kowloon, with an area of about 24 square miles, has been in British occupation since 1861, but New Kowloon was leased to this Government in 1898 only, as part of what is known as the New Territory or Kowloon Hinter- land. The remainder of this New Territory is not under the jurisdiction of the Sanitary Board.
The City of Victoria, built on the Northern shore of the Island of Hongkong, has a frontage to the sea of nearly five miles and is separated from the opposite mainland of Kowloon by the Harbour, which is rather less than a mile and a third wide opposite the centre of the City and widens out to somewhat over three miles at its widest part, contracting again at Lyemun Pass on the East to little more than a quarter of a mile in width.
The domestic buildings of the City of Victoria number 9,433 exclusive of Barracks and Police Stations, of which some 957 are non-Chinese dwellings, while there are also some 150 European dwellings in the Hill district. The number of new houses completed during the year was as follows:-City of Victoria 66, Kowloon 24, New Kowloon 13, Tai Hang 1, and Peak 1, making a total of 105.