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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′ 26.4′′ E.
METEOROLOGICAL DATA.
The following table gives the means or totals of the meteorological data for the several months of the whole year 1925.
Month Barometer at M.S.L. TEMPERATURE HUMIDITY Cloudiness Sunshine WIND Rain ins. Max. | Mean | Min. Rel. | Abs. p.c. hours Direction | Vel. ins. January 30.11 66.1 | 60.4 | 56.8 68.3 | 52.5 76 91.3 ENE | 10.4 0.36 February 30.16 67.7 | 63.7 | 60.6 70 | 0.32 72 113.4 E by N | 14.1 0.385 March 30.03 70.0 | 65.2 | 61.8 $3 | 10.52 80 110.4 E by N | 12.7 7.935 April 29.81 82.3 | 77.4 | 74.1 0.90 | 83 171.5 E | 11.9 2.580 May 29.95 76.1 | 71.4 | 67.7 82 269.1 S by W | 8.2 20.665 June 29.74 85.6 | 81.1 | 77.6 78 | 0.87 71 226.4 SE | 1.8 5.625 July 29.71 87.8 | 82.5 | 78.3 79 | 0.79 64 235.3 E by N | 9.4 9.910 August 29.70 87.4 | 82.5 | 78.9 70 | 0.55 61 268.7 ENE | 11.0 3.165 September 29.84 86.4 | 81.4 | 77.2 75 | 0.61 66 204.0 ENE | 11.8 1.090 October 30.04 80.2 | 75.4 | 71.7 182.9 NE by E | 10.6 0.225 November 30.11 76.9 | 71.9 | 68.6 69 | 0.31 53 192.0 E | 11.4 87.58 December 30.22 68.3 | 62.9 | 58.3 Mean or Total v.87 78 197.8 ESE | 10.6 23.355POPULATION.
The estimated population of the Colony at the middle of 1925 was as follows:--
Non-Chinese Civil population
Chinese population:-
- City of Victoria (including the Peak) 465,000
- Villages of Hongkong
- Kowloon (including New Kowloon)
- New Territories (land)
- Population afloat
- Total Chinese population
- Total Civil population
16,500
33,040
200,000
87,500
72,380
857,920
874,420