560
undoubtedly
L
consumption of 10 gallons per head will be considerably excceded but the strickest economy should undoubte be exercised in the consumption throughout the British Kowloon and all water laid on inside private.
or Colorical property or Imperial
Institutions measured by meter.
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Allowing 15 gallons head for diem for the barracks we
get
as the present requirements through.
out the districts mentioned in
Section 20, 147,000 gallons per diein.
to the last According
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census of 1891 the total Land Poper. lation of British Kowloon was 19,997 and the Boat population 6,447
making a total of 26,444
Comparing these figures with those obtained at the census. 1881 the increase during the last decade has been at the rate of 96 per
of
per cent.
34.
It would appear scarcely
probable that this rate of increase
can be maintained when it is -
remembered that the increase of population in this Colony is mainly
immigration,
due to vir
the annual
returns of births and deaths, shewing that the rate per cent of the former
are about one third that.
reut reason
of
the latter.
There is however no appa.
during the way
next 10
a material increase
years
should not
be anticipated and I am of opinion. though the immediate requirements of the population do not render it - necessary
that works should be construct
ed for the
supply of more than 150,000
gallons per
diem
yet
such works
As
arranged
are constructed should be so
as to admit of their buing exkuded to meet the requirements of a poper..
Cation.