111
were
The population living on small floating craft in the waters of the Colony is, with very few exceptions entirely Chinese. The Mercantile Marine was represented on Census night mainly by small coasting steamers and the bulk of the crew Chinese. There were 37 British ships, 9 Japanese, 9 Norwegian, 7 Chinese, 4 Portuguese, and 2 Danish ships in port; and a further 12 ships under repair in dock. Only 2 British ships and 2 Japanese ships had crews exceeding 100 persons. In- cluded under Mercantile Marine were also two gunboats, one French and one Portu- guese, and one American naval transport.
(e) Summary.
Table 11.
Europeans
Chinese
Eurasians
Local Portuguese
Indians
Japanese
Others
Totals Non-Chinese
Totals
British Races
Other European Races & U.S.A.
Grand Totals
Hong Kong Island
Kowloon
New Territories
Afloat
240,863
140,563 114,544
49,111 48,670
40,880 28,058
158,745
3,408
1.611
401
410
190
259
439
563
1,640
474
785
655
246
237
7,104 4,209 247,067 162,954 410,921
2,063
1,273
393
336
192
189
1,044
1,129
1,942
238
211
182
210
166
6,055
3,513 146,618 118,057 264,675
753
37
7
4
5
3
2
267
44
1
1
1,036
88 50,147 48,758 98,905
5,219
7
442
43
2
17
1
140
353
19
79
2
6,246
71
47,126 28,124 75,250
Totals
471,417 350,012
11,438
2.928
1,243
793
389
448
1,503
1,694
8.989
756
1,849
850
580
406
20,441
7.881
491,858
357,893 849,751
Of the total population, persons of Chinese race form 96.67% and of the civilian population 97.70%.
Of the British races there were 3,756 males and 2,928 females in the civilian population, the Defence Forces, which were enumerated separately, amounting to 7,682.
The races given, or rather the descent claimed, were as follows:~~~
Defence Forces.
Civilians.
Males.
Total.
Male.
Female. Land.
Afloat.
English
2,681
2,142
1,367
4,602
10,792
Scotch
737
517
741
142
2,137
Irish
236
164
137
128
665
Welsh
60
58
193
70
681
Australian
30
23
1
54
New Zealander
8
2
10
Tasmanian
1
2
3
Canadian
3
20
24
Totals
3,756
2,928
2,738
4,944
14,366
In 1911 the number of British civilians was 4,114.