WISD.
Month.
Barometer
at M.S.I..
Maz. Mean. Min.
-
10
METEOROLOGICAL RETURNS, 1922.
TEMPERA-
TIRE.
THEMI
DITY.
Cloudiness.
Sunshine.
Rain.
Rel. Abs.
Mrection. Vel.
ins. "
0
!
January, February. March.
April,
May.
June,... July,
August,
P..
30.14 64.5 60.5 $7.0 $1 0.43 83 30.04, 65.0 61.3 58.1 83 0.46 87 0ởi tk 411 LI X1 0.49
KS 29.96 75.7 71.9 67.6 81 0.62 76 29.83 83.3 78.6 75.4 95 0.83
175.8 5.495 79 29.74 86.5 81.9 78.8 81 0.80 79 183,1; 6.525 'S by E 29.72 87.3 82.5 78.6
0,90 AR 246.6 12,800 ENE 29.05 67.3 82.4 78.8 82 0.91
180.0 17.582 78
SAW September.... 29.78 83.7 30.4 76,5 78 0.82 60 205.3 9,935 NE by E October, ..... 30.00 80.5 75.5, 72,1 74 0.66 36 223.2| 2.025 E by X November.. 30.13 74.1 684 6.4
0.43 AO December, 30.18 66.3 61.7 57,4 64 0.36 62
p.c. ins.
hours.' ins.
94.7 2.660
points. milesp.lt.
E
13.!
79,3× 5.490
E
15.4
96.7 3.676
E
11.6
, 158.1 2.020 E by N
12.0
ESE
12.1
10,4
11.4
7.7
[0.1
12.2
62
197,8 0,585 159.4 0.740
ENE ENE
9.3
10.0
Mean or
Total....
29.93 77.1 723 68,8 77,5 045
71
166.35 69.435
E
18.6
POPULATION.
The estimated population of the Volony at the middle of
1922 was as follows:-
84,000
Non-Chinese Civil Population.........
15.200
Chinese Civil Population :-
Civil of Victoria (including The Peak) Villages of Hongkong
340,000
25.900
Kowloon (including New Kowloon)
133.000
New Territories (land)..
Population afloat
64,300
Total Chinese Population..
647,000
Total Civil Population.
662,200
The census of 1921 gives the population of the Colony as
follows:-
Island of Hongkong
Kowloon Peninsula New Territories North
New Territories South
Floating population
Total
347,401
123,448
66,114
17,0409
71,154
625,166
The increase shown over the population at the previous Census (1911) was 168,127.
The excess of males over females is very marked. At the census of 1911 there were 135,563 more males than females enumerated and in 1921 the difference had increased to 140,048.
The floating population (64,300) is distributed amongst the following classes of boats :----
Passenger boats...................
1.918
Lighters, cargo, and water boats,
1,855
Fishing and other boats
6.306
Hulks
76
Boats (mostly fishing) in New Territories
5.238
IMMIGRATION and EmighATION.
There is a continual flow of the populace between this Colony and China and the population to a large extent appears to be constantly changing, but it cunnot be said to what extent arrivals in any year are of new comers or of people returning after having previously left the Colony,
The river steamers plying between Hongkong and China brought 645,714 and took away 636,694 persons,
The Kowloon-Canton Railway brought 526,111 persons and took away 522.909.
This gives a total of 1.171,855 immigrants and 1.159,603 emigrants by these routes alone but, as there are other means of entering and leaving the Colony eg, by junks and ocean going steamships these figures do not accurately show the interelange of population.
Brutus.
The Chinese are careless in the matter of registering births especially those of female children. It appears to be a Chinese custom not to register even the birth of a male child unless such child has survived for at least one month, while female children frequently are not registered at all. This refers to the custom in China of enrolling the child's name at the ancestral temple and no doubt this custom prevents the registration in this Colony of births as required by the Births and Deaths Registration Ordinance which appears to have no counterpart in China proper,
The number of births reported by registered midwives for 1922 was as follows:-
Male Female....
-2,814
2,490
5,304
88