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POPULATION AND VITAL STATISTICS, 1917.

RETURN OF THE POPULATION, AND OF THE MARRIAGES, BIRTHS, AND DEATHS,

Whites.

Comity, District,

Area in

Coloured Population.

Total.

or Parish.

Square Miles.

Males. Females. Males. Females. Males. Females.

Aliens and Rosident Strangers not included in preceding Columas.

Population to the Square Mile.

Persons employed in

Agricul- Manufac-

ture.

Com- tures. merco.

Births. Number and Rate per 1,000,

Marriages.

Deaths. Number and Rate

per 1,000.

Colony of Hongkong,...

390

† 3,000 † 2,000 340,670 189,430343,678 191,430

1,372

Returns not available.

2,401

5-3

116

10,433

per 1,000

23.4

per 1,000.

* Those figures and rates are exclusive of the New Territories (to which the Births and Deaths Registration Ordinance does not apply). † Excluding the Army and Navy.

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