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be regarded as satisfactory evidence that family life among the Chinese continues to increase, taking the Colony as a whole The decrease in population in the City of Victoria consists almost entirely of adult males, while the number of women and children was
has increased. In Old Kowloon where the population shows a very large increase, there ΑΓΡ 32,209 ndult males 19,844 adult females, with 9,278 children under the age of lå years. The percentage of adult Chinese females to adult males in the Colony is approximately as follows :
City of ictoria
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great majority of Eurasians are returned as the present occasion I have left out 1,432 Chinese. The total Chinese land population of Chinese living in places within the City limits the Colony (excluding the New Territories | which do not fall within any of the registration North of the Kowloon Hills and, for the moment, | districts For the purposes of comparison, New Kowloon) is 244,30 as compared with therefore, the decrease since 1901, is 1,767 for 233,263 in 1904, and 20,005 in 1897. The the whole City. The European and American number of males above the age of 15 years is population of Victoria (excluding Portuguese) 156,975 and of females 49,592. These figures | is 3,244 na compared with 2,738 in 191 show a decrease since 1901, of 78+ adult males | Portuguese numbers remain stationary, while and an increase of 6,955 adult females. The there is a small increase of 150 in the number of number of Chinese children under the age Indians. There is no change worth recording of 15 years is 37,733 as compared with 32,771 in the numbers of the rest of the Non-Chinese in 1961. The number of families in the City races (including Eurasians). These now sambor of Victoria is returned as 25,974 as compared 1,28 persons. The increase in the European and with 25,123 in 1901. The figures may
Amerioso community in Victoria is 506 since 1901. Between 1897 and 1901 the increase was 2 8. A number of new houses have been completed on the higher levels of the City, principally in Conduit and MacDonnell Roads. Europeans continue to be displaced by Chinese and others in the residential quarters in the neighbourhood of Robinson Road and Caine Road, and more either into the higher levels or Kowloon. There are 574 Europeans and Americans living on the lak, as compared with 413 in 1941, and 376 in 147. There is little room for further expansion as nearly all the availabto sites have been built. пред.
The children below the
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15 years now number 136, an increase of 31 since the last census. The Chinese namber 1,64%, most of whom are domestic servants. The European and American inhabitants of the Hongkong villages number 224, being an 28 per cent. increase of 47 over 1901. A portion of the 30 per cent. crews of two steamers were included in the 44 per cent Aberdeen and Shankiwan totals in the last The uumber of Chinese in New Kowloon is census, so the real increase in about 60. The 17,836. In 1901 the result of the bonse to Chinese population of the Shaukiwau district house visitation by the police gave the number has ciken to 11,391, over 2,000 more than in 1901. as 17.243. The latter included however abent A large number of men continue to be employed 1,100 inhabitants of seven villages, which are st Messrs. Butterfield and Swire's shipyard. now in the Fai Kong district of the Now | There is an increase of 912 Chinese in Territories, and which Fere therefore not enumerated at the present censu'. For the purposes of comparison the increase over 1901 is about 1,708). In New Kowloon the bulk of the population is rural, and the percentage of adult females to adult males is about 45 7.
In 190, the percentages were :-
City of Victoria Hongkong villages Old Kowloon
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of their own launches available, and had there- fore no difficulty in finding men for the seven laanobes hired from Chinese. Work was com- menced on the evening of the 19th November, when a start was made by enumerating the craft in (auseway Bay, which at that time was always full at night. These were all disposed of before they dispersed in the morning. The rest of the boats in the Harbour were dealt with during the day time on the 20th and 21st November. The bulk of the work Was finished by the evening of the 20th, but a certain number of launches and boats was employed until the afternoon of the 21st, when no boats could be f und that had not been enumerated. Two launches guarded. the exits from the Harbour on the night of the 20th November, and took all unrecorded craft which were in the act of leaving With this exception, no work was done after dark, except in Cause- way Bay. No difficulties were met with by the police, and the work of the eunmeratore accomplished with great rapidity, and without a bitch. I was very much struck by the ready way in which the Chinese boat people gave the information required of them, and by the prompt obedience to a signal, to come alongside the, enumerating launch or boat. They gave their ages without any hesitation, often volauteering those of the members of the crew who happened to be ashore at the time. It was evident that most of them remembered the previons census and knew exactly what was required of them. The greatest credit is due 10 Inspector Langley who was in charge, and to all ranks of the Water Police, who performed what is always au ardnous task in a most efficient manner. The European and American resident civil po ulation (xclusive of Porta- guese) numbers 5,61, as compared with 3,801 in 1901. The increase over 1901 is 1,201. The Portuguese have increased from 1,918 persons 1901 to 2,307 at the present census. Their numbers have hitherto shown a tendency to decrease. 'The British resident civil population numbers 3,709 as compared with 2,78 in 1941. Between 1897 and 1901 the increase was 195, There are no special reasons to be assigned for this increase beyond the stency expansion of the Colony during the last fire years. The Americans have increased fr m 198 in 191 to; 297, the Austrians from 26 to 54. the Dutch | from 15 to 37, and Russians from 10 to 22. There is an increase of 32 in the number of Freuch. The Germans number 359 as compared with 337 in 1901. They show a very increase in the Mercautile Marine. The number of Danes remains the
while same.
the Norwegians, Italians and pan-erds have slightly decreased. Of the British population of 4,197 (inclusive of those on board the shipping in the harbour) 2,683 are returned as English, 671 as Scotch, 339 as Irish, and 47 as Welsh, In the British resident civil population the percentage of adult females to males is about 56.5, taking all those over 15 years of age as adults. The percentage in 1901 was 54, und in 1897, 48. The number of British cui dren under the age of 15 years is 94", as compared with 75 in 1901. These figures taken with the larger¦ percentage of adult females to males, all go to prove that family life is still increasing. This is also the case will the rest of the American and Europe au population, but not to so great an extent. The Non-Chinese races, other than Europeans and Americans, number 3,595 as compared with 2,607 in 1901. Of this number, 857 are Japanese and 2,068 Indian. The latter show the very considerable increase of 615, whilst the former only numbered 484 at the last census. The increase in the number of Indians is to a certain extent due to the employment of a number of coolies on the Kowlooq-Canton | Railway works, end at the time the census was taken there was also a considerable number of men on the way to and from America. The bulk of the Indian population consists of Pun- jabiz, principally Sikhs. There is still a great demand for these men as watchmen. mercantile class, which forms the minority (Ha Wan and Wanchai, contain 25,292 70 Austrians, and 51 Norwegiana. In the consists chiefly of ParsESS,
increase of 2,405. This is 1901 The Malaysinhabitants, AÐ
Yard the Naval to number 147, and the Philippine Islanders probably due
Exten- live close to 198, as compared with 65 and 266 respectively | sion, as the Chinese like to in 1901. 227 persons returned themselves as their work. In Bowrington and Sokonpo Eurasians. As the result of previous experience | there is a decrease of 4,332, The total I made no special endeavour to ascertain the number of Eurasians in the Colony, As I remarked in my report on the 1901 census, the
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Aberdeen, the present population being 3,65-4. The number of Chinese in the Stanley district is 1,276, as compared with 805 in 1901, an increase of over 50 per cent. This is principally due to the number of coolies employed at the Lytam reservoir extension works There are Fil Chiness in the village of Pokfulam. The number in 1901 was 602. The growth of id Kowloon is again, as in 1991, the most remarkable feature of the census. The Europeans and Americans number 997, and the Portuguese 470, the increase over 1991 being 455 and 344 respectively which is equivalent to about $23 percent and 2.73
The number per cent. of Indian civilians is 581, as compared with 211 in 1901. Tuo Chinese have increased from 42,976 to 52341. the percentage of adult females to males is higher than in any other part of the Kowloon. Ia 1901, Colony, ex.opt Now
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In Kennedy Town and shektongtani there is a decrease of 1,821 in the Chinese population. An
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the 191 figurs Was hardly to be expected as between that and 1897 the population bad riseo from 3,581 to 11032. When the present census was taken, there were still many larg blocks of new buildings nuoccupied, designed principally to accommodate the people who have been forced to leave Possession Street, Lower Lascar Row and Wa Lane, owing to the closing up of the disorderly houses in that locality Most of the larger Chinese restaurants in the latter neighbourhood have also removed to this percentage was not quite 23, while it is now
There is avery reason Shektongtani. There is a further increase of 33.
to believe that Old Kowloon will 4.521 in the population of Saiyingpun. That of the rapid expansion of
aipingshan remains practically stationary. | continue. On the Peak and in Victoria, most of This is partially accounted for by the changes | the ground available for sites has already been in l'ossesssion Street and the neighbourhood, built over, while in Kowloon there are still to which I have alluded above. There are considerable
available for building. 2,067 fower Chine in Sheung Wan than there parposes. One of the principal reasons for the were in 1901. This is due probably to dullness popularity of Kowloon as a residential quarter of busi egs, as there are a good many empty is that a number of small houses have been houses there. The population of the Chaug built there, which meet the requirements of a Wan District, which showed An increase of large section of the European population which of 15,047 in 1901, has decressed since the latter is nuable to afford the high rents obtaining on year by 2,652. This decrease is all the mors the Peak and the upper levels of the City of marked because the new four storey buildings Victoria. The number of European, American, in Connaught Road have all been ́ completed and Portuguese children bolow the age of 15 and occupied since 190), while many Chinese
years is 45%, as compared with only 161 in 1901. The Chinore children blow that age shops have set up in Queen's Road Central in the place of European Firms, which bare number 9,278, the increase over 1901 bing The moved into new premises on the Reclamation | 4,152, representing about 80 per cent. between the Post Office site and the Hongkong Non-Chinese population of New Kowloon is 47. Club. It must be remembered, however, that The Chinese number 17,836. The Europeans extensive resumptious of insanitary properties and Americans on board the Foreign Shipping have been carried out by the Government in the harbour number 1,027, and the rest of during the past three years, and the Public the Non-Chinese races 425. The numbers, in
901 were 646, and 355 Health and Buildings Ordinance of 19*) in-
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388 the Europeans and Americans creased the floor area par bead from 30 to 50
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The number of the Chinese Boat Popula- decrease in the ten Registration Districts is tion "or the whole Colony is returned as 42,744. actually 3,199, but in 1901 the whole Chinese | This represents an increase of 2,644 over the population of Victoria was included, while on 1901 figures, in spite of the leas of life in the