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Purely administrative departments are the Secretariat, Treasury, Secretariat for Chinese Affairs, Post Office, Harbour, the Imports and Exports, Police and Prisons departments. There are seven legal departments, including the Supreme Court and the Magistracies. Two departments, Medical and Sanitary, deal with public health, one, Education, with education; and one, the largest of all the Government departments, Public Works, is concerned with roads, buildings, waterworks, piers and analogous matters.
6. There have been no changes in the system of Government in the year under review.
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POPULATION AND BIRTHS AND DEATHS
Variation in population in Hong Kong is more dependent on immigration and emigration than on births and deaths. Movements to and from the Colony are influenced by events in China and owing to the large numbers who come and go daily it is impossible to give more than a very rough estimate of the actual population, except during census years.
2. The following table shows the estimated population for the Colony for the middle of 1936.
Non-Chinese (mostly resident in Victoria and Kowloon) 21,832 Chinese in Victoria 382,119 Chinese in Hong Kong Villages 50,605 Chinese in Kowloon and New Kowloon 327,858 Chinese in junks and sampans 100,000 Chinese in New Territories 105,776 Total 988,1903. During the year 2,977,205 persons entered and 2,987,772 persons left the Colony, making a daily average of 8,134 arrivals and 8,163 departures. The daily average for 1935 was 9,171 arrivals and 9,348 departures.
4. Since 1932 registration of Births and Deaths in the New Territories has been more fully enforced. The introduction of the new Births and Deaths Ordinance in the latter half of 1934 by improving facilities for registration on the one hand and checking on the other brought about an appreciable increase in registrations. This was particularly noticeable in the New Territories where the births registered during 1936 were 3,317 as compared to 587 in 1932.
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purely administrative departments are the Secretariat, Treasury, Secretariat for Chinese Affairs, Post Office, Harbour, the Imports and Exports, Police and Prisons departments. There are seven legal departments, including the Supreme Court and the Magistracies. Two departments, Medical and Sanitary, deal with public health, one, Education, with education; and one, the largest of all the Government departments, Public Works, is concerned with roads, buildings, waterworks, piers and analogous matters.
6. There have been no changes. in the system of Govern- ment in the year under review.
Chapter III.
POPULATION AND BIRTHS AND DEATHS.
Variation in population in Hong Kong is more dependent on immigration and emigration than on births and deaths. Move- nients to and from the Colony are influenced by events in China and owing to the large numbers who come and go daily it is impossible to give more than a very rough estimate of the actual population, except during census years.
2. The following table shows the estimated population for the Colony for the middle of 1936.
Non-Chinese (mostly resident in Victoria and Kowloon). 21,832. Chinese in Victoria
Chinese in Hong Kong Villages
Chinese in Kowloon and New Kowloon
Chinese in junks and sampans
Chinese in New Territories
Total
382,119
50,605
327,858
100,000
105,776
988,190
3. During the year 2,977,205 persons entered and 2,987,772 persons left the Colony, making a daily average of 8,134 arrivals and 8,163 departures. The daily average for 1935 was 9,171 arrivals and 9,348 departures.
4. Since 1932 registration of Births and Deaths in the New Territories has been more fully enforced. The introduction of the new Births and Deaths Ordinance in the latter half of 1934 by improving facilities for registration on the one hand and checking on the other brought about an appreciable increase in registrations. This was particularly noticeable in the New Ter- ritories where the births registered during 1986 were 3,317 as compared to 587 in 1932.
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