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REPORT OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH.
The matter of this report except when otherwise specifically mentioned deals only with that portion of the Colony which is under the jurisdiction of the Sanitary Board.
This area includes the Island of Hongkong, the Kowloon Peninsula, and about sixteen square miles of territory on the mainland south of the Kowloon hills.
The latitude and longitude of the Royal Observatory in Kowloon are: Lat. 22° 18′ 13″ and Long. 114° 10′ 27″.
The following Table gives the means or totals of the meteorological data published monthly throughout the year and the means or totals of the same for the whole year 1923.
Month Barometer at M.S.L. TEMPERATURE HUMIDITY Cloudiness Sunshine WIND Rain ins. Max. Mean Min. Rel. Abs. p. c. hours. Direction Vel. miles p.h. ins. January, February 30.20 65.4 60.0 50.1 63.8 58.8 55.0 64 0.24 E by N 11.8 0.130 March 30.08 70.3 65.2 61.5 72 0.38 76 0.49 E by N 11.8 0.390 April, May 29.94 76.1 71.5 68.6 78 0.66 61 0.85 E 14.5 0.660 June 29.85 82.6 77.8 74.2 79 0.75 77 0.87 E by S 10.9 3.795 July 29.73 84.6 80.6 77.6 82 0.81 82 0.38 ESE 11.1 15.720 August 29.70 86.1 82.0 78.8 81 0.89 79 0.84 SE by S 17.5 18.525 September 29.83 85.4 81.2 77.5 84 0.89 75 0.78 SE 13.0 34.310 October 29.99 80.2 76.0 72.5 73 0.78 72 0.64 ESE 7.0 6.285 November 30.06 75.6 71.6 68.3 71 0.56 52 0.44 E by N 12.5 17.835 December 30.19 68.8 64.3 60.6 66 0.44 71 0.44 ENE 12.4 0.405 Mean or Total 29.94 77.0 72.5 69.0 76.0 0.64 65.9 181.17 E 12.2 106.7POPULATION.
The estimated population of the Colony at the middle of 1923 was as follows:-
Non-Chinese Civil population
City of Victoria (including the Peak)... 350,000
Chinese civil population:-
Villages of Hongkong
New Territories (land)
Population afloat
Kowloon (including New Kowloon)
...
...
26,300
15,500
84,500
65,500
140,000
Total Chinese population
Total Civil population
...
...
666,300
681,800