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POPULATION AND VITAL STATISTICS, 1929.

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

County, District, or Parish.

Area in

British and Foreign.

Chinese Population.

Total.

Aliens andd Resident Strangers

|

Square Miles.

Mulos. Females, Males. Females. Males. Females.

not included in preceling Columns

Population to the Square | Mile.

Persons employed in

Births." Number and Rate i per 1,000.§

Deaths.*

Marriages. +

Number und Rute

Agricul- Manufac- Com-

per 1,000,

ture.

Lures.

merre.

Colony of Hong Kong,

390

†10,945

†7,205 649,165 | 408,375 | 660,110 | 415,580

(Estimations only),

2,758

Returns not available.

10,22% 10-4

236

17,565 17.9

per

par

1,000

1,000

(NI)

• Those figures and rates are exclusive of the New Territories (Except New Kowloon,)

† Excluding the Army and Navy,

This return does not include marriages between persons neither of whom professes the Christian religion duly celebrated neeording to the personal law and religions of the parties. Both births and birth rates are very fallacions owing to partial Chinese registration and migration of bout population.

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