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Annexe B.
JOINT REPORT OF THE PRINCIPAL CIVIL MEDICAL OFFICER AND THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH.
AREA.
The Sanitary Board's control extends to the Island of Hongkong, which has an area of about 32 square miles, and to that portion of territory on the mainland between the shore and the first range of the Kowloon Hills extending from the village of Tseung Kwan O in Junk Bay on the East, to the Village of Kau Pa Kang on the West, with a sea frontage of about thirteen miles and an area of about sixteen square miles. Old Kowloon, with an area of about 23 square miles, has been in British occupation since 1861, but New Kowloon was leased to this Government in 1898, as part of what is known as the New Territories. The remainder of the New Territories comprising an area of about 356 square miles is not under the control of the Sanitary Board.
The City of Victoria, built on the Northern shore of the Island of Hongkong, has a frontage to the sea of nearly five miles and is separated from the opposite mainland of Kowloon by the Harbour, which is rather less than a mile and a third wide opposite the centre of the City and widens out to somewhat over three miles at its widest part, contracting again at Lyemun Pass on the East to little more than a quarter of a mile in width.
The domestic buildings of the City of Victoria number 9,824 (exclusive of Barracks and Police Stations), of which 938 are non-Chinese dwellings, while there are also 172 European dwellings in the Hill District. The number of new houses completed during the year was as follows:- City of Victoria 166, Kowloon 95, Outlying District 35 and Peak 1, making a total of 297 as against 335 in 1913, 231 in 1912, 155 in 1911 and 93 in 1910.
In addition to the above, miscellaneous buildings such as offices, godowns, etc., were erected to the number of 48--42 in 1913.
The reduction in the total number of domestic buildings in the City, in spite of the completion of many new buildings, resulted from the temporary conversion of many of them into stores and godowns after the exodus of Chinese which is referred to overleaf.
ADMINISTRATION.
The City of Victoria is divided into ten, and Old Kowloon into two urban Health Districts with an Inspector in charge of each. The Inspector in charge of No. 3 Health District of the City (the principal European quarter) is also in charge of the Peak.