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POPULATION AND VITAL STATISTICS, 1928.

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

County, District, or Parish.

Aren in Square

British and Foreign.

Chinese Population.

Totas.

Miles.

Male, | Pemules.

Males. Males. Peinates,

Females.

Aliens and Resident Singers nat iuriuded in preceding C'olumus

Births,

Deaths."

Population to the Square Mile.

Persons employed in

$

Number and Rate

Marringes.

Number

+

+

and Rare

¡

Agricul- Manufac-

Com-

per 1,000, §

per 1,000,

ure.

tures.

norce.

Colony of Hong Kong,

390

.†10,945

†7,205 649,165 408,275 G60,110 | 415,580) |

2.75M

Returns not available.

9,309

236

9-3

14,757 15-1

per

per

1,000

1,000

|

(Estimuutions only ),

(NI)

• These figures and rates are exclusive of the New Territories (Except New Kowloon.)

† Excluding the Army and Navy.

This return does not include murringes between persons neither of whom professes the Christian religion duly celebrated according to the personal law and religious of the parties. Both births and birth rates are very fullncions owing to purtial Chinese registration and migration of bost population.

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