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JAN 12
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONGKONG. 5th. December, 1911.
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Enclosure!
Sir,
Referring to your Circular Despatch of 17th. November, 1909, and subsequent correspondence, I have the honour to forward six copies of the Report on the Census of this Colony which was taken on the night of Saturday, 20th. May.
2.
Full particulars were for the first time ob-
-tained of all the inhabitants of the New Territories and of the floating population, the only information acquired regarding the latter in 1906 being age and sex.
3.
Table II shows a total civil population of 456,739 as compared with 319,803 in 1906 and 283,905 in 1901. The difference between the figures for the years 1911 ad 1906 is largely due to the fact that the census of the latter year was confined, in the circumstances explained in paragraph 2 of Sir Henry May's Despatch No. 129 of 17th. May, 1907, to the Island of
Hongkong and the territory on the mainland South of the Kowloon
range of hills; and the difference between those for 1911 and 1901 to the absence of reliable information regarding the popula- -tion of the New Territories in the latter year. In this connect- -ion I would refer you to paragraph 22 of the Report.
4.
The chief interest in the present Census lies
in the large increase in the Chinese population of Victoria which
is returned at 217,668 as compared with 173,289 in 1906 and
175,056 in 1901. Mr. Wodehouse in paragraph 24 states that this
HE RIGHT HONOURABLE
LEWIS HARCOURT, M.P.,
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increase
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