POPULATION AND VITAL STATISTICS, 1917.
RETURN OF THE POPULATION, AND OF THE MARRIAGES, BIRTHS, AND DEATHS,
Whites.
Comity, District,
Area in
Coloured Population.
Total.
or Parish.
Square Miles.
Males. Females. Males. Females. Males. Females.
Aliens and Rosident Strangers not included in preceding Columas.
Population to the Square Mile.
Persons employed in
Agricul- Manufac-
ture.
Com- tures. merco.
Births. Number and Rate per 1,000,
Marriages.
Deaths. Number and Rate
per 1,000.
Colony of Hongkong,...
390
† 3,000 † 2,000 340,670 189,430343,678 191,430
1,372
Returns not available.
2,401
5-3
116
10,433
per 1,000
23.4
per 1,000.
* Those figures and rates are exclusive of the New Territories (to which the Births and Deaths Registration Ordinance does not apply). † Excluding the Army and Navy.
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