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The number registered for the New Territory in 1903 was 6,207.
The population of the Colony is classified primarily into Chinese and non-Chinese. The non-Chinese comprise a white population of 13,106, of whom 6,991 are civilians and the remainder belong either to the Army or the Navy. The coloured races (non-Chinese) number 5,794 and include East Indians, Malays, Philippinos, Eurasians, and a few Africans and Japanese. At the Census taken in 1897 the Portuguese numbered 2,267, while at that taken in 1901 the number had fallen to 1,956.
The civil population is essentially a male adult one, as no less than 72-9 per cent. of the Chinese population are males, while more than half the Civil population (50-2 per cent. of the Chinese and 564 per cent. of the non-Chinese) are between the ages of 20 and 45. The proportion of the population of Great Britain between these ages is only 33.8 per cent.
The City of Victoria is divided into ten Health Districts with a Sanitary Inspector in charge of each District; there are also five Senior Inspectors for the City, each of whom has the general supervision and control of two Districts. Kowloon is similarly divided into two Health Districts with a Sanitary Inspector in charge of each, and a Senior Inspector for Kowloon has been provided in the Estimates for 1905. There are also special Inspectors for the work of disinfection, for prosecutions, for the control of the Cemeteries, for drainage work and other matters, and in addition a special Plague staff who are employed throughout non- epidemic periods on work designed to prevent or mitigate the recurrence of these epidemics.
The following table gives the number of Chinese houses and floors (i.e. sepa- rate Chinese dwellings in most cases), and the number of inmates per house and per floor in the City of Victoria.
City of Victoria Health Districts.
One Two Three Four Five storey storey storey storey storey: Dwell- Dwell-Dwell- Dwell- Dwell- Dwell-
ings. ings. ings. ings. ings. ings.
Total
Total Floors.
Average Number Number Number of of Persons Floors per
House. Dwelling. Per
of Persons
Floor. per
.1
161
423
206
2
3 336 547
82
28
32
•
822
968
1,753 2,644
2.1
14.6
6.8
2.7
24.5
8.9
Most of the Chinese in
3.
:
6
19
2
27
81
3:0
this district occupy quar- ters attached to European offices and dwellings.
72 576
377
71,032
3,415 3.3
25.4
7.7
•
132
515
345
461,040
3,421
3.3
23.6
7.2
6
2
19
298
469
67 894
3,145
3.5
23.7
6.7
17
38
445 377
24 901
3,056
3.4
18.1
5.3
8
6 83 616
294
31,002
3,211
3.2
22-2
6.9
9
10
31
334 351
23 440 479 103 29
1,045 2,752 2.6
23.5
8.9
745 1,868 2.5
16.8
6-7
Totals and Averages,
2451,883 4,052 | 2,110 147 8,476 25,346 2.9
22.3
7:4