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REPORT OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH.
The area of the Colony, except when otherwise mentioned, dealt with in this report, includes the island of Hong Kong, the Kowloon peninsula and that portion of the New Territories known as New Kowloon on the mainland, but does not include the remaining or greater portion of the New Territories, such being without the jurisdiction of the Sanitary Board.
The latitude and longitude of the Royal Observatory in the Kowloon peninsula are:-Latitude 22° 18′ 18.2′′ N., Longitude 114° 10′ 26.4′′ E.
METEOROLOGICAL DATA.
or totals of the The following table gives the means meteorological data for the several months of the whole year
140
1926.
Mouth.
Barometer
at M.S.I..
TEMPERA- TURE.
HUMI-
DITY.
Max. Mean. Min. Rel.
Abs.
Clowliness.
Sunshine.
WIND
Rain
Direction. Vel.
ins.
O
Q
p.c. ins.
p. c. hours. ins.
points. miles p.h.
January, February. March,
30.22 66.
April,
May,
Junc,.
July..
August,
30.17 63.9 60.0 57.3 63.8 60.8 30.11 68. 29.92 72.9 68.9 66.1 29.85 80.9 76.172.7 29.78 81.3 77.8 75.3 29.76 86.9 82.1 78.4! 29.78 86.7 82.1 78.2 September, 29.81|86,4| 81.5 77.6 29.97 79.0 74.5 70.9 October, November. 30.1173.4 68.9 | 65,0 December, 30.17 67.1 62.7 | 59,0
0.39 72 61.157.6
82 0.43 0.49 82
62
172.9 0.215 E by N
!
12.5
89
66.1 2.400 1 by N
14.3
85
96.1 4.840 E by N
12.5
87 0.62
93
59.5 17.165 | E by N
14.7
83 0.76
82
151.5 5,730
E
12.5
83 0.80 81 83
$9
94.0 6.535 E by S
15.0
0.89 0.91 0.86 80 74 0.64
70
221.7 29.790 SE by S
10.1
68
216.4 8.010 E by S
9.5
60
214.4 17.300 E by N
10,7
73 0.52 69 0.42
62 45 62
176.6 3.275
ENE
13.2
204.0 4.965
ENE
10.6
141.0 0.453
ENE
11.2
Mean or
Total,
29.97 76.
71.8 68.2
79 iQ 64
72
151.1 100.88
E
12.1
POPULATION.
The estimated population of the Colony at the middle of 1926 was as follows:-
Non-Chinese Civil population
16,500
Chinese population :-
City of Victoria (including the Peak) 465,000
Villages of Hong Kong
33,040
Kowloon (including New Kowloon)..200,000
New Territories (land)
87,500
Population afloat
72.380
Total Chinese population
857,920
Total Civil population
874.420
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