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The District Watchmen Force, numbering 100, to which the Government contributes $2,000 per annum, was well supported by the Chinese during the year. These watchmen patrol the streets in the Chinese quarter of the City. They are placed on police beats and are supervised by the European police on section patrol.
The total number of persons committed to Victoria Gaol was 5,153 as compared with 5,212 in 1919. Of these 1,999 were committed for criminal offences against 2,552 in 1919. Of committals for non-criminal offences there were 64 more for hawking without a licence, and 5 more for unlawfully boarding steamers, than in 1919.
The daily average of prisoners confined in the Gaol was 755, the average for 1919 being 756, and the highest previous average being 726 in 1904. The percentage of prisoners to population, according to the daily average of the former and the estimated number of the latter, was 0.12. The average percentage for the last ten years was 0.13. Owing, however, to the large floating population, which is constantly moving between the Colony and Canton, the percentage of crime to population does not convey an accurate idea of the comparative criminality of the residents of the Colony. The Victoria Gaol has accommodation for 707 prisoners. The Branch Prison at Laichikok has accommodation for 200 prisoners.
The prison discipline was satisfactory, the average of punishments per prisoner being 0.99 as compared with 0.96 in 1919 and 1.05 in 1918.
Long sentence prisoners serving two years and upwards are taught useful trades, including printing, book-binding, tin-smithing, mat-making, tailoring, carpentering, etc. The profit on the work done was $64,014 as against $67,735 in 1919. A sum of $3,598 was received and credited to Government for non-Government work as against $3,363 in 1919.
IX.-VITAL STATISTICS.
(a.)-POPULATION.
The civil population of the Colony, according to the Census taken on May 20th, 1911, was 456,739, of whom 104,287 reside in the New Territories and in New Kowloon; at the Census taken in 1906 it was 301,967 exclusive of the New Territories and of New Kowloon. The estimated total population at the middle of the year under review was 648,150, but this includes the New Territories: and, as the birth and death figures given below do not include those from this area (with the exception of New Kowloon), the population for the purposes of calculating these rates is estimated at 547,350, of whom 14,000 were Non-Chinese.
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The District Watchmen Force, numbering 100, to which the Government contributes $2,000 per annum, was well supported by the Chinese during the year. These watchmen patrol the streets in the Chinese quarter of the City. They are placed on police beats and are supervised by the European police on section patrol.
The total number of persons committed to Victoria Gaol was 5,153 as compared with 5,212 in 1919. Of these 1,999 were committed for criminal offences against 2,552 in 1919. Of committals for non- criminal offences there were 64 more for hawking without a licence, and 5 more for unlawfully boarding steamers, than in 1919.
The daily average of prisoners confined in the Gaol was 755, the average for 1919 being 756, and the highest previous average being 726 in 1904. The percentage of prisoners to population, according to the daily average of the former and the estimated number of the latter, was 012. The average percentage for the last ten years was 013. Owing, however, to the large floating population, which is constantly moving between the Colony and Canton, the percentage of crime to population does not convey an accurate idea of the comparative criminality of the residents of the Colony. The Victoria Gaol has accommodation for 707 prisoners. The Branch Prison at Laichikok has accommodation for 200 prisoners.
The prison discipline was satisfactory, the average of punish- ments per prisoner being 0·99 as compared with 096 in 1919 and 1'05 in 1918.
Long sentence prisoners serving two years and upwards are taught useful trades, including, printing, book-binding, tin-smithing, mat-making, tailoring, carpentering, etc. The profit on the work done was $64,014 as against $67,735 in 1919. A sum of $3,598 was received and credited to Government for non-Government work as against $3,363 in 1919.
IX.-VITAL STATISTICS.
(a.)-POPULATION.
The civil population of the Colony, according to the Census taken on May 20th, 1911, was 456,739, of whom 104,287 reside in the New Territories and in New Kowloon; at the Census taken in 1906 it was 301,967 exclusive of the New Territories and of New Kowloon. The estimated total population at the middle of the year under review was 648,150, but this includes the New Territories: and, as the birth and death figures given below do not include those from this area (with the exception of New Kowloon), the population for the purposes of calculating these rates is estimated at 547,350, of whom 14,000 were Non-Chinese.
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