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The average strength of the British fleet was as follows:-
British permanently in the Colony 416, British occasionally in the Colony 5,237, Chinese permanently in the Colony 150, Chinese occasionally in the Colony 150—making a total of 5,953. For the purpose of estimating the population it is considered a fair average to include one-third only of those "occasionally" resident in the Colony; this gives 1,796 and of these 50 are Chinese.
The Chinese boat population (exclusive of the New Territories), is estimated for 1910 as 48,010 and the number of boats belonging to the Port and the villages of Hongkong, is as follows:—
Passenger boats, 3,040 Cargo boats, 1,277 Steam-launches. 271 Lighters, 166 Harbour boats, 1,607 Fishing boats, 4,180 Trading junks, 1,690 12,231This gives an average of 3.9 persons per boat.
The number of boats enumerated at the Census taken in November, 1906, was 6,459 but this was only a month after the great Typhoon by which many boats were destroyed. There are in addition 9,553 boats in the New Territories.
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