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The following figures are taken from the Reports of the Censuses of Hongkong and Singapore in the years 1901 and 1891 respectively, and from the Registrar General's reports for the year 1903 :—
HONGKONG AND SINGAPORE
CHINESE POPULATION ACCORDING TO CENSUS.
Males 15 & over.
Males Total under 15 Males.
Females | Females
Total Grand
15 & over, under 15. Females. Total.
93,972
6,474 100,446
1,561 5,846 21,462 121,908
Singapore, 1891,
Victoria, Hongkong,
1901,116,671 12,725 129,396 32,930 12,730 45,660 175,056
ESTIMATED CHINESE POPULATION AND NUMBER OF BIRTHS REGISTERED IN 1903.
Number of Births.
Singapore,
Victoria, Hongkong,
Population.
175,345
190,690
3,959
550*
*
Including births among a portion of the harbour population.
It is not probable that the ratio of adult females to males has altered much during the last thirteen years in either place, and in any case the adult female population of Victoria must be considerably larger than that of Singapore. The figures are therefore somewhat remarkable.
On the 1st of July branch register offices for births and deaths among the Chinese were opened at No. 2 and No. 7 Police Station in the Eastern and Western parts of the town respectively, in order to facilitate and encourage registration. A study of the number of births and deaths registered at the various offices shews that the Kowloon City District is the only one in which there is anything approaching a norinal ratio of births to deaths. It should be noted though that this is a rural district not yet invaded by manufactories or workshops.
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DEATHS.
The number of deaths in the British and Foreign Community was 236, as com- pared with 309 in 1903. Of these, 74 were British, 70 Indian, 3 Malay, 40 Portu- guese, 16 Japanese, 9 French, 7 German, 5 Philippinos, and less numbers of other nationalities. The number of deaths among the Chinese was 5,882, almost the same number--5,875-as in 1903. 495 Chinese and other Asiatics-no Europeaus-died from plague.
The following table shews the number of deaths and the death-rate per 1,000 during the last ten years:-
Estimated Population.
1895.
British and Foreign. Chinese.
....10,828
Total.
237,670
248,498
1896,
...12,709
226,710
239,419
1897,
13,700
235,010
248,710
1898,
15,190
239,210
254,400
1899,
.15,822
243,490
259,312
1900,
...14,778
247,900
262,678
1901,
....20,096
280,564
300,660
1902,
.18,524
294,300
311,824
1903,
.18,581
307,050
325,631
†1904,
.18,900
342,306
361,206
Including New Kowloon.
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