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(d) Population Afloat.
Table 6.
POPULATION, AFLOAT INCLUDING MERCANTILE MARINE & FOREIGN NAVIES.
1931
1921
Males Females
Total
Males
Females
Total
+
Victoria Harbour
19,475
14,310
33,785
24,286
14,618
28,854
5,069
Shaukiwan
2,528
2,343
4,871
3,766
2,948
6,714
1,843
Stanley
560
419
979
168
112
275
704
Aberdeen
3,590
3,158
6,748
4,543
3,381
7,924
1,176
Lamma Island
286
189
475
475
Po T'oi Group to Port
Shelter
3,019
2,122
5,141
Sai Kung
388
350
738
Sha Tin
61
45
106
2,574
1,337
3,911
4,528
Tolo Harbour & Mirs Bay..
607
467
1,074
Deep Bay & Lan Tau
815
565
1,380
Tai O
1,166
834
2,000
2,000
1,894
3,894
1,894
Cheung Chau
4,041
3,004
7,045
2,056
1,496
3,552
3,493
Tsun Wan
269
234
503
74
61
135
368
Totals
36,805
28,040 64,845
39,412
25,847
65,259
Mercantile Marine &c.
5,164
84
5,248
5,895
Totals
414
5,895
647
41,969 28,124 70,093 45,307
25,847
71,154
Excluding the Mercantile Marine there is a small decrease shown in the popula- tion afloat of 414. There is a large decrease of over 5,000 in the population living on small craft within the harbour.. There appears to be a tendency to abandon the large unwieldy cargo boat with a crew of from 15 to 25 persons in favour of the smaller junk, or lighter, or the steam launch. With a population that moves about so readily, increases or decreases in specific areas have, however, little meaning.
Racial Distribution of the Population.
The population has been grouped according to the main races represented in the Colony. It is not maintained that these "races' are exact ethnological divisions but they have been selected as suited to the circumstances of the Colony. The heading for "Race" was omitted in the Schedule in 1921 and it was, therefore, impossible to discover how many of the persons who claimed a particular nationality were from the homeland of that nation or were of different race from one or other of the Colonies or dependencies of the nation. The grouping has been made in order to facilitate this differentiation.
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