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As Summary Books were not employed in the New Territories, it has been impossible to obtain figures of the buildings there. Similarly, no record was kept by the enumerators of the number of boats from which they obtained particulars of the population afloat.
The great majority of the houses in Health Districts 1A, 2A, the lower part of 2, 4, 5, 6, 6A, 7A, 8, 9, 10, and the lower parts of 10A, are tenement houses of 3 or 4 stories and in a few cases 5 stories.
A detailed examination of the buildings in each area of the Colony is essential at a Census to ensure the complete enumeration of the population. An oppor- tunity is also provided by this examination for the collection of data regarding the housing accommodation of the people. The time of preparation in 1931 was too short to enable this examination to be done except in the urban area. The work should be commenced at an earlier date on the next occasion.