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The number of minor offences reported shows an increase of 423 as compared with
The number of minor offences reported was 385 above the average of the quinquennial period.
The total number of persons committed to Victoria Gaol was 5,877, as compared with 5,799 in 1906, but of these only 2,460 were committed for criminal offences, against 2,575 in 1996. Of committals for non-criminal offences there were 84 less under the Prepared Opium Ordinance and 44 less for infringement of Sanitary Bye-laws.
The daily average of prisoners confined in the Gaol was 502, the average for 1906 being 518 and the highest previous average being 720 in 1904. The percentage of pri- soners to population, according to the daily average of the former and the estimated number of the latter, was .144 as compared with .161, the average percentage for the last ten years. The Prison discipline was satisfactory, the average of punishments per prisoner belug 1.50, as compared with 1.21 in 1996 and 1.47 in 1905.
The remunerative labour carried on in the Gaol consists of printing, book-binding, washing, carpentry, boot-making, not-making, painting and white-washing, mat-making, tailoring, cakum-picking, etc., the profit on the work done being, $37,434 as against $34,495 in 1906.
The total strength of the Police Force for 1907 was Europeans 135, Judiaus 410, Chinese 503, making a total of 1,048, as compared with 1,047 in 1906 exclusive in each case of the five Superior Officers and a staff of clerks and coolies. These figures include Police paid for by the Railway, Private Firms, and other Government Departments. Of this Force the District Officer and 13 Europeaus, 101 Indians and 45 Chinese were stationed in the New Territories during the
year.
The force of District Watchmen to which the Government contributes $2,000 per annutu was well supported by the Chinese during the year. streets in the Chinese quarter of the City.
These watchmen patrol the They are placed on Police beats and are supervised by the European Police on section patrol.
IX.-VITAL STATISTICS.
(4.) POPULATION.
The population of the Colony according to the Census taken in 1901 was 283,975 while at the Census taken in 1906 it was 301,967 exclusive of the New Territories, New Kowloon and the Army and Navy Establishments. The estimated population at the middle of the year under review was 414, 308 as follows:---
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(4) PUBLIC HEALTH AND SANITATION,
During the year under review considerable progress has been made in rendering existing domnestic buildings rat proof as a preventive of Plague. 370 ground surfaces of houses have been repaired, and 1,201 buildings have bad rat-runs filled up with cement. addition 44 basements illegally inhabited have been vacated.
In
New buildings (domestic) to the number of 142 were crected during the year and in these the effect of the present Ordinance is seen in the increased amount of open space about the houses, which the law requires. Scavenging lanes which have to be provided in the rear of new houses also increase the open space about then and tend to reduce surface crowding.
During the year there were 198 deaths from Plagne, compared with 842 in 1906 and 287 in 1905.
Biseases
There were 1,825 deaths from Respiratory Diseases amongst the Chinese; 655 of these deaths were due to Phthisis, a percentage of 9.6 of the total deaths amongst that community.
Beri-beri caused 562 deaths-a high figure.
The deaths from Malaria were 579 as against 448 in 1906, and 287 in 1905, an increase which it is hoped will only be temporary. The average number of deaths from this disease has fallen from 526 in the quinquennium 1898 to 1902 to 383 in the quinquennium 1903- 1907. Military returns of admissions to Hospital fog Malaria show a marked reduction in the incidence of this disease, as will be seen from the seined Table.
Admission for Malaria: European Troops.
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Year.
Strength, Admissions. Deaths. Ratio
per 1,000.
1898
1.569
595
10
379-8
1899
1,648
829
5046
1900
1,484
629
423-8
1901
1,678
1,010
603-7
1902
1,881
1,523
1,102-8
1903
1,220
937
768.0
1904
1,426
390
273.5
1905
1,370
348
254.0
1906
1,525
180
314.75
1907
1,461
287
196.00
Non-Chinese Civil Community,
12,700
Chinese Population,
Hongkong, Kowloon,..
192,400
71,950
Floating Population,
43,530
Mercantile Marine,
2,700
310,580
Army, (average strength),
Navy, (average strength),..
3,920 2,157
New Territories (exclusive of Kowloon)............
6,077 85.011
Total,............
414,868
At the Census taken in 1906 the average strength of the Navy present in the Colony was 4,698.
(c) CLIMATE.
The average monthly temperature throughout the year was 72:29 F. as compared with 71-8° F. in 1906 and 72.0° F. during the ten preceding years. The maximum monthly temperature was attained in July, when it reached 87.1° ., and the minimum monthly tem- perature was recorded in February, when it was 55·2° F. The highest recorded temperature during the year was 91-6° F. on the 29th August, and the lowest 150° F. on the 31st January.
The total rainfall for the year was 93.54 inches as compared with an average of 77·96 inches during the past ten years. The wettest mouth was September, with 19-46 inches, the dryest, February, with only 016 iach. The greatest amount of rain which fell on any one day was 5530 inches on the 15th September, while no rain fell on 215 days of the year. The relative humidity of the atmosphere throughout the year was 77 per cent, as compared with an average of 77 per cent. daring the past 10 years. The average daily amount of sunshine was 5'2 hours being 46 per cent. of the possible duration.
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