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The average strength of troops in Garrison during 1905 was 127 British Officers and 1,629 British N. C.Os and men with 38 Indian Officers and 1,995 Indian N. C.O.s and men, and 69 men of the Chinese Royal Engineers. There were also 342 British women and children, and 74 Indian women and children, making a total of 416.
The average strength of the British fleet was as follows:-Europeans permanently in the Colony 285, Europeans temporarily in the Colouy 2.730, Chinese permanently in the Colony 153, Chinese temporarily in the Colony 83—making a total of 3,251.
The Chinese boat population (exclusive of the New Territory) is estimated for 1905 as 54,154 and the number of registered boats belonging to the Port for the year is as follows :—
Fishing and Trading Junks,
Cargo Boats, Lighters and Saipans,
.....6,771 ........5,171
The registered fishing boats belonging to the New Territory were distributed as follows:
Registered at Cheung Chau,.......
Tai O,.
55
Tai Po,
7"
11
77
Deep Bay,
45
Sai Kung,
}:
Long Kit,
Total,
1,867
900
1,949
1,435
669
952
.7,772
The population of the Colony is primarily divided into Chinese and non-Chinese. The non-Chinese comprise a white population of 10,835 of whom 5,722 are civilians while 5,113 belong to the Navy and Army. The coloured races (non-Chinese) number 6,837 and include East Indians, Asiatic Portuguese, Japanese, Philippinos, Malays, Africans, Persians and a few others.
The Civil population is essentially a male adult one. At the last census (1901) the population of males was 72.6 per cent. of the total civil population.
Of the Chinese population 72.9 per cent. were males, and over half the civil population/ (50-2 per cent. of the Chinese and 564 per cent. of the non-Chinese) were between the ages of 20 and 43 years.
The City of Victoria is divided into ten health districts with a Sanitary Inspector in charge of each district. These ten districts are grouped into five larger districts of two each and a Senior Inspector has general supervision and control of the Sanitary work in each of such groups.
Kowloon has one Senior Inspector with two district Inspectors under his su vision. With the abatement of plague during the last two years the former five plague Inspect- ors in Victoria have been reduced to four, two Inspectors dividing the district of the fifth Inspector between them in addition to their former districts.
The supervision of the sanitary work in the villages of Hongkong and in Kowloon City and Sham Shui Po is done by the Police Inspectors in their respective districts.
The following Table shows the number of Chinese house and floors and their inmates per house and per floor in the City of Victoria :-
City of Victoria
One Two Three Four Five Total storey storey storey storey storey Dwell- Dwell- Dwell-Dwell- Dwell- Dwellings. Floors,
ings. ings. ings. ings. ings.
i
Number of
Average Number of
Total
No. of
Health
District.
Floors per Dwelling.
persons per House.
persons per Floor.
1
161 428 206
32 Nil. 827
.1,763
2.1
14.7
2
3 341 580
82 Nil. 1,006
2,753
2.7
24.1
6.9
8.7
Most of the Chinese of
3
Nil.
6
19
ON
2
Nil. I 27
77
2.8
this district lived in quarters
attached to offices.
6
5
6
46
7
17
57 562 408 2 132 502 333 52 433 369 36 447 377
6 1,039 461.015 3,334
3,408 3-2
25-7
7.8
3-2
24.6
7.5
25 925
3,050
3.3
23.3
7:0
24 901 3,058
3.3
18.4
5'4
8
6
83 616 294
9
10
23 440 498 103 33 334 363
31,092 3,211 Nil. 1,064 2,809
3.2
22.7
7.0
2.6
23.6
8.9
35
Nil. 765
1,930
2.5
16.9
6.6
Totals and
297 1,909 4,226 2,035
1048,571
25,393 2.89
22.4
S
75
Averages.