REPORT OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH.
The area of the Colony, except when otherwise mentioned, dealt with in this report includes the island of Hongkong, the Kowloon peninsula and that portion of the New Territories known as New Kowloon on the mainland but does not include the remaining or greater portion of the New Territories such being without the jurisdiction of the Sanitary Board.
The latitude and longitude of the Royal Observatory in the Kowloon peninsula are:- Latitude 22° 18′ 13.2′′ N Longitude 114° 10' 27" E.
METEOROLOGICAL DATA.
The following table gives the means or totals of the meteorological data for the several months of the whole year 1924.
Month Barometer at M.S.L. TEMPERA-TURE HUMI-DITY Cloudiness Sunshine Rain WIND ins. Max. Mean, Min. Rel. Abs. p.c. hours. ins. Direction. Vel. January 30.17 65.9 | 62.4 | 59.8 81 0.46 75 0.46 E by N | 13.3 February 30.04 63.6 | 60.3 | 57.3 86 0.46 93 1.080 E by N | 12.8 March 30.11 67.0 | 62.5 | 59.2 79 0.45 80 0.180 E by N | 14.9 April 29.93 74.4 | 69.3 | 65.8 85 0.61 85 6.215 E | 11.7 May 29.83 84.4 | 79.6 | 76.7 82 0.83 78 16.875 SE | 9.4 June 29.74 84.3 | 80.5 | 77.6 83 0.86 89 23.140 SE by S | 14.5 July 29.72 86.7 | 81.9 | 78.2 82 0.89 79 19.675 E by S | 10.4 August 29.71 86.4 | 81.7 | 78.4 82 0.89 67 10.655 ESE | 7.8 September 29.85 86.8 | 82.2 | 78.6 78 0.86 63 6.440 E | 8.8 October 29.95 81.2 | 76.5 | 72.7 71 0.66 67 0.3 NE by E | 12.9 November 30.13 73.4 | 68.2 | 63.8 64 0.41 61 0.710 NE by E | 11.4 December 30.15 67.4 | 61.9 | 57.4 68 0.32 40 0.000 ENE | 12.6 Mean or Total 29.94 76.8 | 72.3 | 68.8 77.0 0.64 70.0 98.57 E | 11.7POPULATION.
The estimated population of the Colony at the middle of 1924 was as follows:
Non-Chinese Civil population
City of Victoria (including the Peak)... 12,000
Chinese population:
Villages of Hong Kong ... 16,000
Kowloon (including New Kowloon) ... 29,800
New Territories (land)... 180,000
Population afloat... 85,000
Total Chinese population ... 310,800
Total Civil population ... 322,800
was as follow:
Non-Chinese Civil population
City of Victoria (including the Peak)... 420,000
Chinese population:
Villages of Hong Kong
Kowloon (including New Kowloon)
New Territories (land)...
Population afloat...
Total Chinese population
Total Civil population ...
16,000
29,800
180,000
85,000
68,750
783,550
799,550