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Hong Kong Annual Administration Reports, 1841-1941
COLONIAL REPORTS.-ANNUAL.
14.-EXPENDITURE OF THE DEPARTMENTS.
The amounts paid during the year on account of the departments were:
Payments in Great Britain in sterling money, £23,068l. 14s, 5d. Payments in the Colony in local currency, $846,880.84.
15.-FOREIGN CONSULS.
No new Consulates were established in the Colony during 1890.
16.-POPULATION.
The estimated population on the 31st December 1889 was as follows:-
Males Females Total 138,033 56,449 194,482which is 21,318 less than the estimated population at the end of 1888.
The last census was taken in 1881, the population being then returned as 160,402, of which 115,369 were males and 45,033 females.
The following is the mean estimated population for the last nine years:
Years. Males. Females. Total. 1882 119,704 46,729 166,433 1883 124,768 48,707 173,475 1884 130,560 50,969 181,529 1885 137,079 53,515 190,594 1886 144,550 56,440 200,990 1887 152,427 60,524 212,951 1888 154,500 61,300 215,800 1889 138,033 56,449 194,482 1890 198,742