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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 Hong Kong, 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 1926.
Month. Barometer at M.S.L. TEMPERA-TURE. HUMI-DITY. Cloudiness. Sunshine, WIND Rain. Max. Mean, Min, Rel. Abs. hours. Direction. Vel.. ins. ins. p.c. p. c. points. miles p.li. January, 30.22 66. 61.1 | 57.6 72 0.39 E by N 0.215 February. 30.17 63.9 | 60.0|57.3 62 0.43 172.9 E by N 2.400 March, 30.11 68. 63.8 60.8 82 0.49 66.1 E by N 4.840 April, 29.92 72.9 | 68,9|66,1 83 0.62 E by N May, 29.85 80,9 76.1 72.7 87 0.76 82 83, 0.80 June,. 29.78 81.3 | 77.8 | 75.3 89 0.89 70 83 0.91 July.. 29.76 86.9 82.1 78.4 68 0.86 60 August,... 29.78 86.7 | 82,1 | 78.2 93 59.5 17.165 E by N 14.7 September, 29.81 S6.4 31.5 77.6 151.5 5,730 E October, 29.97 79.0 74.5 | 70,9 74 94.0 6.533 | E by 221.7 29.790 November, 30.11: 73.4 | 68.9 | 65,0 0.52 45 176.6, 3.275 ENE 13.2 December, 30.17 67.1 62.7 | 59,0 69 0.12 62 $25 0.64 62 73 204.0 4.965 ENE 141.0 0.455 ENE 10.6 11.2 Mean or Total, f 29.97 70. 71.8 68.2 790 64 72 151.1.100.88 E 12.1## POPULATION.
The estimated population of the Colony at the middle of 1926 was as follows:
Non-Chinese Civil population 16,500
Chinese population:-
City of Victoria (including the Peak) 465,000` Villages of Hong Kong 33,040
Kowloon (including New Kowloon)..200,000
New Territories (land) 87,500
Population afloat 72.380
Total Chinese population 857,920
Total Civil population 874.420