390
Of the Chinese population 70.3 per cent. were males, and over half the civil population (56.9 per cent. of the Chinese and 526 per cent. of the Non-Chinese) were between the ages of 20 and 45 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 supervision.
There are also four Plague Inspectors in the City of Victoria, two of these Inspectors having charge of three districts each, and there is one Plague Inspector for Kowloon.
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 houses and floors and their inmates per house and per floor in the City of Victoria as shown by the Census taken in November,
1906.
City of Victoria. Health
District.
One Two Three Four Five | Total storey storey storey storey storey Dwell- Total Dwell-Dwell- Dwell- Dwell- Dwell- ings. | Floors.
ings. ings. ings. ings. ings.
Average No. of
Floors per
Number of persons per Dwelling.
Number of
persous per Floor.
Dwelling.
1
161
425 214
32 Nil. 832 1,781
2-1
14.8
6-9
2
3
341
551
82
Nil.
977 2,666
2.7
20.5
7:5
Most of the Chinese of
3
Nil.
6
19
2
Nil.
27
77
2.8
this district live in quarters
attached to offices.
4
5
6
46
7
17
9
ONONO+
6
57 564
412
61,045
3,526
3-4
22:4
6.6
2
132
464
321
46 965
3,172
1
3.3
18.2
5.5
48 437
369
25 925
3,054
3.3
16:9
5.1
38 445
377
24 901
3,056
3.4
20.5
6:0
6
83 616
24 464 496
10
36
311 337
294
89 Nil. 1,073 72
31,002
3,211
3.2
18.1
5-6
2,796
2.6
23-2
8-9
Nil. 756
1,957
2.6
18.2
7:0
Totals and
Averages.
301 1,905 4,143 | 2,050 1048,503
25,296
2.9
20.4
6.9
The following Table shows the acreage of the City Health Districts with the houses and population in each such district as shown by the Census taken in November 1906.
Health Districts.
Total Acreage.
Built-over Areas in Acres.
Chinese Dwellings.
Non- Chinese Dwellings.
Chinese Population.
Non-Chinese Epulation.
Person
per Acre (built-over).
1
531
134
832
159
12,364
961
99
1,566
234
140
977
72
20,024
167
1,809 troops.
3
232
137
27
422
8,980
2,643
85
4.
56
53
1,045
165
23,395
!,111
462
f
5........
29
27
965
62
17,593
366
665
6.
30
27
925
15
15,662
327
592
36
31
901
5
18,476
72
598
8..
49
47
1,002
3
18,147
202
390
9
44
44
1,073
19
24,870
140
568
10.
252
106
756
60
13,778
310
133
1,523
746
8,503
982
173,289
9,507
245
The Census showed 1,648 Chinese living at the Peak.