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Part II.
AREA OF THE COLONY, BUILDINGS, DWELLINGS
AND FAMILIES.
The area of Hong Kong Island, including Green Island and Aplichau, is 32 square miles; that of Kowloon to the old boundary is 3 square miles and the New Territories extend to an area of 356 square miles; a total of 391 square miles New Kowloon as defined by Ordinance comprises 15.70 square miles so that Kowloon and New Kowloon have an area of 18.70 square miles. The areas of smaller divisions of the City of Victoria and of the Kowloon Peninsula were kindly supplied by the Superin- tendent of Surveys and have been employed in a later portion of this report in calculating the density of population in specified areas.
In enumerating the buildings and dwellings of the population one floor in a tenement house was considered to be one dwelling, though as each floor is separated. into three or four divisions (by cubicles &c.) more than
than one family usually occupied one floor. It was unfortunately impossible to obtain statistics of the number of families in the Colony in 1931; such figures were given in 1901, 1906, and 1911, but were omitted in 1921. On this occasion the instructions given to the enumerators were perhaps not clear enough and the omission was made in so many districts that the remaining figures had to be discarded also.
The following table gives the number of buildings and dwellings in each Health District, excluding Naval and Military property :-
Table I.
Inhabited
Houses
Unoccupied Houses
Houses in course of erection
Buildings not used as dwellings.
North Point to
Shaukiwan.
3,026
248
60
H. D. 1.
2,651
358
23
38
1A
* 1,474
317
83
18
2A
1,478
228
6
2
2,871
241
20
3
2,336
357
10
2,817
98
112
5
1,672
48
36
6
1,495
56
78
6A
567
14
7A
735
34
7
682
1,369
58
64
2,372
116
114
2,824
162
2
133
10
2,538
411
19
82
10A
1,220
146
3
47
Hill District
283
10
3
3:
South of Island
1,977
180
10
14
Total Hong Kong
33,705
3,082
161
847
H. D. 11
2,577
169
20
60
12
3,733
277
6
71
13
2,482
155
3
39
14
3,049
172
49
40
15
3,514
426
5
77
16
4,786
442
75
137
17
3,504
258
101
166
Total Kowloon
23,645
1,899
259
590
Total Hong Kong
& Kowloon.
57,350
4.981
420
1,437
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