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Malays), while the total Chinese population is estimated at 330,169.
The estimated population to the middle of 1910 is as follows:-
Non-Chinese Civil Community, 14,260
Chinese :-
City of Victoria (including Peak and Stonecutters' Island), 180,000
Villages of Hongkong, 18,720
Kowloon, 80,200
Floating Population... 48,010
Mercantile Marine, 2,990
Total Chinese Civil Population, 329,920
Army (average strength), 4,433
Navy (average strength), 2,362
Total Population of the Colony in 1910 exclusive of the New Territories (except New Kowloon), 350,975
The Chinese population of the New Territories (exclusive of New Kowloon) was 85,011 at the Census taken in 1901 but there are no data as yet on which to base an estimate of the increase in population (if any) in this portion of the Colony since that date.
The following is the distribution according to nationality of the population as estimated above :-
Europeans and Americans, 11,532 Africans, 13 East Indians, 4,474 Chinese and Malays.... 330,624 Mixed and Coloured, 4,332 Total, 350,975The Civil population consists chiefly of male adults. At the last Census (1906) the proportion of males was 70.1 per cent. of the total Civil population; at the 1901 Census the proportion was 72.6 per cent., so there was a small increase in the proportion of females (which means an increase in family life among the Chinese) during that interval. Over half the Civil population (56.9 per cent. of the Chinese and 52.6 per cent. of the Non-Chinese) were between the ages of 20 and 45 years.
The average strength of the troops in Garrison during 1910 was 81 British Officers and 1,887 British N.C.O.s and men; 50 Indian Officers and 1,893 Indian N.C.O.s and men; and 49 Chinese attached to the Royal Engineers. There were also 422 British women and children, and 51 Indian women and children making a total of 473.