391
The following Table shows the distribution at the time of the Census (1906) of the Chinese population of Kowloon according to Houses and Floors in the different sub-districts into which Kowloon is divided:-
ཡ-
Спе
storey
Dwellings
Kowloon Sub- districts.
1.
2.
3
4.
:
Chinese.
:
:
Non-Chinese.
Chinese.
Nou-Chinese.
Two
storey
Dwellings
Chinese.
Three
torey
Non-Chinese.
Dwellings.
Chinese,
Four
storey
Dwellings.
Non-Chinese.
Total Dwellings.
Total Floors.
Average Number of Floors per Chinese Dwelling,
Chinese Population,
Number of Persons per Chinese Dwelling.
Number of l'ersons per
Chinese Floor.
Area in
Acres.
176
00
-181
376 2:0
1,149
108
17
70
73
6
166 560
3.4
3,462 24-2
6.9
126
00
:
819
2371
91
791 |2,127 2-7
18,399 23-3
8.7
198
57
1819
7
:
3841,101
2.9
8,740 22-8
7.9
163
5..
: རྨ ལྷ ིི
20
595
446
5
8....... 940
[ 219
9.
636
༞ ིི ཚྭ
155 13
11
199
389 1-9
4,776 24-2
12-5
319
163 69292
22
:
595 1,477
2.5
11,367 21.6
8.5
323
ལ
1
:
:
1,050 1,509
1,159, 1,378
1-4
9,967
9.5
6-6
2,758
7,859 6.8 4-9
2,063
'
:
686 736
1.1 4,439 6.5
6-1
732
2.248
285 1,067
8 193 € 5,214 9,653 1:8 70,167 143
7.8 6,795
Sub-districts 7 and 8 are in New Kowloon, the remainder comprise the whole of Old Kowloon. The Non-Chinese population of Old Kowloon at the 1996 Census was 2,269 civilians and 2,215 troops, most of whom reside in sub-districts 1 and 2, while the Non- Chinese population of New Kowloon was 47.
BIRTHS.
The births registered during the year were as follows:-
Chinese,
Non-Chinese,
Males.
Females.
Total.
...684
344
1,028
161
132
293
845
476
1,321
This gives a general birth-rate of 4·04 per 1,000 as compared with 3:41 per 1,000 in 1905 and 3-3 per 1,000 in 1904.
The birth-rate amongst the Non-Chinese community was 14:06 per 1,000 as compared with 17-03 per 1,000 in 1905 and 139 in 1904.
The nationalities of the Non-Chinese parents were as follows:-British 117, Indian 43, German 17 French 3, American 3, Portuguese 78, Filipino and Malay 18, Japanese 3, Jewish 5, Dutch 2, Parsee 2, Arabian 1 and Swedish 1.
The number of Chinese births registered does not give an accurate record of the num- ber of births which have occurred. Owing to the custom of the Chinese in not registering births unless the child has survived for a month and often in the case of female children not at all, it is probable that the majority if not all of the infants which are sickly at birth or die before they have lived 1 month have not had their births registered. It is customary, therefore, to assume that all children of 1 month old and under who die in the various