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Hong Kong Annual Administration Reports, 1841-1941
COLONIAL REPORTS-ANNUAL,
VII.-CRIMINAL AND POLICE.
The total of all cases reported to the Police was 9,460, being an increase of 643, or 7.29 per cent., as compared with 1914. There was in 1915 an increase in serious offences of 140, or 4.69 per cent., as compared with the previous year. The number of serious offences reported was 97 below the average of the quinquennial period commencing with the year 1911. The number of minor offences reported shows an increase of 503 as compared with 1914, and was 31 over the average of the quinquennial period.
VIII-VITAL STATISTICS.
POPULATION.
The civil population of the Colony, according to the census taken on May 20th, 1911, was 456,739, of whom 104,287 reside in the New Territories and in New Kowloon; at the census taken in 1906 it was 301,967 exclusive of the New Territories and of New Kowloon. The estimated total population at the middle of the year under review was 509,160, but this includes the New Territories.
CLIMATE.
The mean shade temperature for the year at the Royal Observatory, Kowloon (108 feet above mean sea level) was 73.4°, the same as in 1913, and 1.1° higher than the mean for the past ten years. The maximum temperature was 93.4° on the 28th July and the minimum 41.7° on the 16th January. The hottest month was August, with a mean temperature of 83.5° and the coldest, January, with a mean temperature of 60.1°.
The temperature at the high levels of the Peak District is from 3° to 8° less than at the Observatory. At Victoria it is practically the same.
The rainfall and humidity are considerably greater at the Peak than at Victoria, the Observatory, or Tai Po (New Territories).
The total rainfall for the year was 76.025 inches, as compared with an average of 82.35 inches during the ten preceding years. The wettest month was July, with 15.41 inches, the driest, January, when 0.345 inch fell. The greatest amount of rain which fell on any one day was 4.89 inches on the 19th October, while no rain fell on 219 days of the year. The mean relative humidity of the atmosphere for the year...