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## SECTION II.

## Public Health.

### PART I. VITAL STATISTICS.

### CIVIL POPULATION.

68. The estimated civil population for the whole of the territories under British jurisdiction at the middle of the year was 944,492, of which 923,584 or 97.8 per cent was Chinese and 20,908 or 2.21 per cent non-Chinese. The distribution was as follows:-

Urban area of Victoria:- Europeans and Americans 4,162 Other non-Chinese races 5,704 Chinese 373,199 383,065 Villages of Hong Kong:- Europeans and Americans 342 Other non-Chinese races 115 Chinese 47,059 47,516 Total for Hong Kong Island 430,581 Urban area of Kowloon including New Kowloon :- Europeans and Americans 4,702 Other non-Chinese races 5,858 Chinese 300,550 Total for Kowloon & New Kowloon.. 311,110 Junks and Sampans:- Chinese 100,000 New Territories exclusive of New Kowloon :- Europeans and Americans 25 Chinese 102,776 102,801 Total civil population 944,492

69. During the year 2,275,346 persons entered and 2,318,642 left the Colony by river steamer and by railroad, making a surplus of emigrants over immigrants by these routes of 43,296. Fuller details are as follows:

Arrived. Departed. River steamer 1,305,961 1,317,913 Railway 969,385 1,000,729 Ocean going steamers. 513,693 492,458 Total 2,789,039 2,811,100