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The average annual rainfall during the ten years ending 1901 was 77.30 inches and ranged from 104.25 inches in 1894 to 45.83 inches in 1895; the average for the decade ending 1911 has been 84.20 inches. The rainfall for the last year is therefore in excess of the average of the last 20 years.
POPULATION.
The Non-Chinese population of the Colony comprised at the Census taken on May 20th, 1911, a white civil population of 6,035; to this must be added an average resident white population of 2,313 belonging to the Navy and an average strength of 2,360 British Troops. The coloured races (Non-Chinese, Civil) numbered 6,040 and included East Indians, Asiatic Portuguese, Japanese, Filipinos, Malays, Africans, Persians and a few others; in addition there were 2,054 Indian Troops stationed in the Colony. The Table on page 13 shows a similar classification of the Non-Chinese population for the year 1911 and from this it will be seen that the total Non-Chinese population—inclusive of Army and Navy—amounted to 18,802 (including 420 Malays and Filipinos), while the total Chinese population including 49 Chinese sappers and 200 Chinese servants employed in Naval Establishments, equalled 444,913 of whom 90,594 reside in the New Territories exclusive of New Kowloon.
The distribution of the population at the Census was as follows:—
Non-Chinese Civil Community,
12,075
Chinese Civil Population:—
City of Victoria (including Peak),
219,386
Villages of Hongkong,
16,211
Kowloon (including New Kowloon),
67,497
New Territories (land),
80,622
Population afloat,
60,948
Total Chinese Civil Population,
444,664
Total Civil Population,
456,739
The estimated total population of the Colony at the middle of 1911 is 464,277 but the figures given below in respect to births and deaths relate only to Hongkong and Kowloon (including New Kowloon), and the rates therefore in respect to these data are calculated on an estimated Chinese population of 354,790 and a Non-Chinese population of 18,837 of whom 12,110 were civilians, the remainder belonging to the Naval and Military services.
The Civil population consists chiefly of male adults. At the Census held in 1911 the proportion of males was 64.8 per cent. of the total civil population; at the Census taken in 1906 the proportion...