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The following Table of population, births and deaths is given for the purposes of ready comparison with similar Tables given in the reports from other Colonies:
Total Number of Inhabitants in 1911. (Census figures, + Army and Navy),.... 10,708 24,066 354,739 3,606 373,121 Number of Births in 1911, 197 1,137 1,768 " of Deaths in ",, 93 7,509 7,748 " of Immigrants in 1911,.. 149,894 " of Emigrants in 135,565 Number of Inhabitants in 1910, (estimated), 11,532 4,174 | 330,624 4,332 350,975 Increase, 24,115 22,146 Decrease, 824 408 1,969There is an enormous passenger traffic between Hongkong and the mainland of China, the passenger figures by river steamers alone being as follows:-
Arrivals 1,216,378; Departures 1,127,036.
It must not be assumed, however, that the excess of arrivals by steamer over the departures (89,342) or the excess of immigrants over emigrants (14,329) represents an increase in population of the Colony, for thousands of those who arrive by passenger steamer subsequently leave for China by launch or junk and the numbers so leaving are not available.
AGE DISTRIBUTION OF DEATHS.
The number of deaths of infants under one year of age was 2,467 or 31.8 per cent of the total deaths, as compared with 32.9 per cent. in 1910 and 31.6 per cent. in 1909.
The infant mortality among the Non-Chinese community during the year was 133 per 1,000 as compared with 80 per 1,000 in 1910 and 111 per 1,000 in 1909. The corresponding figure for the United Kingdom for the decennium 1891-1900 was 168 per 1,000, but the condition of abject poverty which exists among a percentage of the population of the United Kingdom cannot be said to obtain among the Non-Chinese population of Hongkong.