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POPULATION AND VITAL STATISTICS, 1932.

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

County, District, or Parish..

Aron in

British and Foreign.

Chinese Population.

Square Miles.

Total.

Population

Aliens and Resident Strangers

Persous employed in

Males. Females, Males. Females. Males, | Females.

to ille Square! not included Mile. | in preceding

| Columns

Births. Number and Rate per 1,000.§

Deaths.

Murringes.

Number and Rate

Agricul-Maunfae- Com-

per 1,000,

ture.

tures. merce.

Colony of Hong Kong,

390

!

12,056 | † 7,928 | 300,485 380,327 512,541 | 888,255

2,309

Returns not available.

14.184 15.7

187

20,139 22.3

per

1,000

† Excluding the Army and Navy,

(Estimations only).

per

1,000

This return does not include murriages between persons neither of whom professes the Christian religion duly celebrated according to the personal law and religions of the parties. Both births and birth rates are very fallacious owing to partial Chinese registration and migration of boat population,

HOUSING.

Number of Chinese Dwelling Houses and Floors.

Province, County,

District or Parish.

Total Population.

Number of Houses.

Number of Floors,

1 Storey, |2 Storeys, 3 Storeys. 4 Storeys. 5 Storeys,; 6 Storeys, | 7 Storeys. S Storeys,

Victoria,

(Hong Kong).

Kowloon and New Kowloon,

† Aberdeen and Aplichnu,

Shaukiwan..........

Total

36-1,279

266

1,004

4,203

6,275

625

15

+J

273,244*

1,299

891

5.199

2,557

5,997*

58

123

121

20,529*

115

226

510

BO

* Estimated population mid-yenı 1982. † Outlylug villages not included

1,739

2,244

10,033

8,867

629

15

3

12,400

43,285

9 950

28,926

302

667

886

2,237

9

3

23,538

NOTE: This form is a modifiention of that required by Colonial Office Circular Despatch of

30th June, 1931 to suit local conditions and to give more accurate information.

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