year:
388
METEOROLOGICAL RETURN.
The following Table records the meteorological conditions which prevailed during the
Month.
Barometer
at M.S.L.
TEMPERATURE.
HUMIDITY,
Max. Mean. Min. Rel. Abs.
Cloudiuess.
Sunshine.
WIND.
Rain.
Dir.
Vel.
January,
February,
ins.
30.18
❤
62.5 58.4
p.c. ius.
54.8 80
p. c. hours.
ins.
Points.
miles p. h.
0.10
80
86.8
1.985
E by N
12.7
30.01
64.0 60.4
56.6 87
0.47
91
41.3
2.250
E
17.0
March,...
30.12 65.9
61.6
58.1 79
0.45
April,
29.94 72.5
69.0
66.1 88.
0.63
May,
29.80 80.6
76.5
73.2❘ 86
0.78
June,
29.79
87.2
82.4
78.91 79.
0.88
July,
29.67
87.7
82.9
79.5 80
0.91
August,
29.79
88.8
83.2
79.1 79
0.89
September,
29.77
85.3 81.0
77.0 80
0.85
October,
November,
•December,
30.12
29.98 81.0 75.6
73.4 67.4
71.1 62
0.56
6 8 2 3 2 2 2 4
87
71.0
2.630
E by N
16.1
89
58.3
9.790
E
17 4
79 137.6
11.580
E
13.3
65
246.5
5.895
S by W
10.3
78
215.2
6.943
SSW
11.8
53
281.2
3.970
SW by S
6.7
70
171.2. 30.595
E
16.7
45
233.4
1.320
NE by E
11.5
30.15 68 9
63.5
62.4 62 0.42 19 204.4
59.6 70 0.42 49 194.4
0.175
NE by E
10.8
0.660
E by N
11.8
POPULATION.
The population of the Colony exclusive of the New Territories at the Census taken on November 20th, 1906, was as follows :--
Non-Chinese Civil Community,
Chinese : -
City of Victoria (including Peak and Stonecutters' Island),
12,415
Villages of Hongkong,
Old Kowloon,
New Kowloon,
Floating population,
Mercantile Marine,
Total Chinese Population,
Ariny, Navy,
....174,937
17,032
52,331
17,836
42,744
2,508
307,388
4,537
4,698
.329,038
Total l'opulation of the Colony,
At the Census taken in 1901 the Civil population of the Colony, exclusive of the New Territories, was 283,975, so that the increase in the Civil population during this period has been 17,992 exclusive of New Kowloon and the rest of the New Territories. The figures for the City of Victoria are interesting: at the 1901 Census the Chinese population of the City was 175,056 while at the Census taken in 1906 the Chinese population of the City is shown as 173,289, excluding the Peak in both cases. This shows a reduction in the population of the City of 1,767 and this is no doubt fully accounted for by the new regulations for the prevention of overcrowding introduced in 1903, by migrations to Kowloon in search of work, especially on the large Railway works now in progress, (Old Kowloon alone shows an increase in its Chinese population of 9,355), and by the extensive resumptions and demolition of in- sanitary property, which has been carried out by the Government during the past three years. other interesting feature in connection with the population of the City of Victória is the se in the number of Chinese women, in spite of the more stringent regulations in regard