SHANGHAI
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The Revenue of the French Concession for 1904 was Tls. 411,606. The sources. from which it was derived were:-
Land Tax, five-tenths of 1 per cent. Foreign House Tax, 8 per cent.
...Tls. 33,046.89
...
Native House Tax, 12 per cent....
Licences, principally jinrickshaws and wheelbarrows......
Taxes
Rent of Quays and Jetties and Wharfage Dues
Electric Lighting Tls. 15,349.21, Water Supply Tls. 30,628.46 Slaughter Houses Tls. 12,562.66, Miscellaneous Tls. 14,432.19
***
14,862.79
+
105,709.99
93,872.97
28,111,36
61,029.70
45,977.67
26,994.85
Tls. 411,606.22
The Expenditure of the French Municipality in 1904 amounted to Tls. 9-18,165- and was divided as under:—
Secretariat (Staff and General charges)... Public Works
Municipal Undertakings, Lighting, Water, &c.. Public Works Extraordinary
Police Department
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Sanitary Education, Volunteers Fire Brigade, Hospitals, &c.
Interest...
...
•
65,805.48
...Tls. 28,962,97
53,780.96
609,313. 6
79,994.72
60,608.53
49,999.37
Tls. 948,465.89
The Ordinary Revenue for 1905 was estimated at Tls. 415,993 and the Ordinary Expenditure at Tls. 410,648; the Extraordinary Expenditure at Tls. 287,650, which it was proposed to cover by a loan of Frs. 950,000.
POPULATION
The Foreign population increased rapidly up to 1865, but declined considerably during the next ten years. The census of 1865 gave the number of foreign residents in the three Settlements as 2,757, army and navy (British) 1,851, shipping 981, a total of 5,589. In 1870 the total in the Anglo-American Settlement was 1,666; in 1876, 1,673 ; in 1880, 2,197; in 1885, 3,673; in 1890, 3,821, in 1895, 4,684. By the census of 26th May, 1900, there were in the Settlements north of the Yang-king-pang a total of 6,774 foreigners 1,436 in the English division, 4,510 in Hongkew, 828 in Western district, outside roads and Pootung--an increase of 45 per cent. during the latter five years, against 23 per cent. during the previous five. In the five years which have since elapsed, the foreign population of Shanghai has nearly doubled. A census of the foreign population (exclusive of the French settlement) was taken on Oetober 14th, 1905, when the grand total was returned as 11,497; of these 5,728 were male adults and 3,270 female adults; the children numbered 1,256 males and 1,243 females. The fluctuations in the foreign population have been very remarkable. Between 1870 and 1880 the number of adult males decreased, while in the next five years it increased by over fifty per cent. In the nine years, 1876 to 1885, the whole foreign population more than doubled, but in the next five years it showed an increase of only 148, of whom 144 were children. foreign population of the French Concession on 15th June, 1900, was 282 males, 145 females, and 195 children, a total of 622 against 430 in 1895 and 444 in 1890. A curious fact is that of children under fifteen in the French Settlement only 26 were males, while 136 were females in 1895, and 52 were males and 143 females in 1900. The 1905 census in the International settlement revealed the noteworthy fact that there was a far larger rate of increase shown in the Japanese community than in any other of the different nationalities represented. We give the latest returns, and place within parentheses the figures of the census taken in 1900:-British, 3,713 (2,691); Japanese, 2,157 (736): Portuguese, 1,329 (978); American 991 (562); German, 785 (525) French, 393 (176); Russian 354 (47); Austro-Hungarian 158 (83); Italian 148 (60) Spanish 146 (111); Danish 121 (76); Norwegian 93 (45); Swedish, 80 (63); Swiss, 80 (37); Dutch 58 (40); Belgian 48 (22); Indians 568 (296); Malays 171 (57); and 112 of various other nationalities. The Eurasians in the Settlement numbered 323, against 519 in 1900. These figures do not include the population afloat, which the date of the last census was 2,510, against 1,253, in 1900, 306 in
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