The following Table of population, births and deaths is given for the purpose of ready comparison with similar tables given in the reports from other Colonies:---
Europeans and Whites. Africans. East Indians. Chinese Malays. Mixed and Coloured. Total. Number of Inhabitants in 1910 11,532 13 4,474 330,624 4,332 1,256 350,971 Number of Births in 40 77 1,533 Number of Deaths in 16 1 48 7,441 50 83 7,639 Number of Immigrants in 149,564 Number of Emigrants in 111,058 Number of Inhabitants in 1909 11,890 13 4,384 323,844 4,246 343,877 Increase, 142 90 6,780 86 7,098There is an enormous passenger traffic between Hongkong and the mainland of China, the passenger figures by river steamers alone being as follows:-
Arrivals 1,014,608; Departures 970,185.
It must not be assumed, however, that the excess of passenger arrivals by steamer over the departures (44,423) or the excess of immigrants over emigrants (28,506) represents an increase in population of the Colony, for thousands of those who arrive by passenger steamer subsequently leave for China by launch or junk and the numbers so leaving are not available.
AGE DISTRIBUTION OF DEATHS.
The number of deaths of infants under one year of age was 2,520 or 32.9 per cent. of the total deaths, as compared with 31.6 per cent. in 1909 and 22.6 per cent. in 1908.
The infant mortality amongst the Non-Chinese community during the year was 80 per 1,000 as compared with 111 per 1,000 in 1909 and 91 per 1,000 in 1908. The corresponding figures for the United Kingdom for the decennium 1891-1900 was 168 per 1,000, but the conditions of abject poverty which exist among a percentage of the population of the United Kingdom cannot be said to obtain among the Non-Chinese population of Hongkong.
Among the Chinese population the known deaths of infants numbered 2,495, while only 1,233 Chinese births were registered. Taking the corrected birth figure to be 2,315 (as explained on page 8) it would even then appear that more infants die in the Colony than are born here. The Census return for 1906 showed 1,329 Chinese infants under one year of age.
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The following Table of population, births and deaths is given for the purpose of ready comparison with similar tables given in the reports from other Colonies:---
Europeans
and
Whites.
Africans.
East
Indians.
Chinese
{}}}′1
Malays.
Mixed
and
Coloured.
Total.
Number of Inhabitants in 1910 11,532 13 4,474 330,624: 4,332 350,97
40 1,256 77 1.533
*
of Births
of Deaths in
in
16
+
J
97
48 7.441 50 7,639
149.564
111,058
of Immigrants in
of Emigrants in
of Inhabitants in 1909
11,890
Increase,
142
13 4,384 323.844 4,246 | 143.877
90 6.780 $6 7,098
There is an enormous passenger traffic between Hongkong and, the mainland of China, the passenger figures by river steamers alone being as follows:-
Arrivals 1,014,608; Departures 970,185.
It must not be assumed, however, that the excess of passenger arrivals by steamer over the departures (44,423) or the excess of immigrants over emigrants (28 506) represents an increase in population of the Colony, for thousands of those who arrive by passenger steamer subsequently leave for China by launch or junk and the numbers so leaving are not available.
AGE DISTRIBUTION OF DEATHS.
·
The number of deaths of infants under one year of age was 2,520 or 32'9 per cent. of the total deaths, as compared with 31-6 per cent. in 1909 and 22.6 per cent. in 1908.
The infant mortality amongst the Non-Chinese community during the year was 80 per 1,000 as compared with 111 per 1,000 in 1909 and 91 per 1,000 in 1908. The corresponding figures for the United Kingdom for the decennium 1891-1900 was 168 per 1,000, but the conditions of abject poverty which exist among a percentage of the population of the United Kingdom cannot be said to obtain among the Non-Chinese population of Hongkong.
Among the Chinese population the known deaths of infants numbered 2,495, while only 1.233 Chinese births were registered. Taking the corrected birth figure to be 2,315 (as explained on page 8) it would even then appear that more infants die in the Colony than are born here. The Census return for 1906 showed 1,329 Chinese infants under one year of age.. and 14.980
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