POPULATION AND VITAL STATISTICS, 1937.
RETURN OF THE POPULATION, AND OF THE MARRIAGES, BIRTHS, AND DEATHS.
Area in
County, District, or Parish.
British and Foreign.
Chinese Population.
Square Miles.
Total
Population to the Square not included
Mile.
Alions and Resident Strangers
Persons employed in
Columns.
in preceding Agricul- Manufac-
Births. Number and Rate per 1,000.
Marriages. ‡
Deaths,
t Number
and Rate
Com-
per 1,000.
ture.
Lures.
merce.
2,575
Returns not available.
• 31,559
421
| 34,635
31.32
per 1,000
34-39
per
1,000
Males. Females. Males. Females. Males. Females.
Colony of Hong Kong,
391
12,966
9,616 | 565,219, 419,181 (578,185,428,797
(Estimations only),
† Excluding the Army and Navy.
This return does not inchule marriages between persons neither of whom professes the Christian religion duly celebrated according to the personal law and religions of the parties. Both births and birth rates are to some extent fallacious owing to partial Chinese registration and migration of boat population.
• Does not include 744 late registrations after 12 months.
| Excludes 913 stillbirths.
HOUSING.
Number of Chinese Dwelling Ilouses and Floors.
Province, County,
District or Purish.
Totul Population.
Number of Ilouses.
Number of Floors.
1 Storey,2 Storeys, 3 Storeys. 4 Storeys. 5 Storeys. 6 Storeys. 7 Storeys. 8 Storeys.
Victoria,
386,579-
349
902
4,375
6,337
6·11 -
22
24
4
12,657
44,178
{Long Kong).
† Kowloon and New Kowloon,
341,512*
151
499
5,607 1 3,133
10
9,401
30,558
† Aberdeen and Aplichau,
7,132*
67
125
133
326
720
Shukiwau,.
24,279-
118
230
548
67
963
2,190
Total
695
1,756
10,663
9,539
654
23
333
24
23,317
77,916
Estimated population mad-ysur 1937. ↑ Pullying villages not included.
NOTE: This form is a modification of that required by Colonial Office Circular Tespatch of
30th June, 1931 to suit local conditions and 10 give more accurate intorination,
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