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SHANGHAI

The Expenditure of the French Municipality in 1909 amounted to Tls. 678,121, and was divided as under:—

Budget de prévisions, including Tls. 53,571 for new School

Public Works

Police Department

Interest, Tls. 42,144.44, Sundries, Tls. 41,804.07...

...Tls. 163,731.45

149,456.05

134,737.55

83,948.51

Medical and Sanitary, Tls. 30,318.19, Hospitals, Schools, etc., Tls. 28,191.23 58,509.42 Lighting, Tls. 31,224.67, Fire Brigade, Tls. 13,701.25... Secretariat (Staff and General Charges)

44,925.92 42,811.90

Tls. 678,120.80

The Revenue for 1910, including the balance of Tls. 65,919.84 from ́ 1909, and fixed deposits in banks, Tls. 75,000, was estimated at Tls. 642,685, and the Expenditure at Tls. 636,420. A Special Budget for public works extraordinary to the amount of Tls. 250,000 was arranged for with the Bank, including TIs. 202,600 for the budget de prévisions, at Tls. 720,911.

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 both Settlements a total of 7,393 foreigners; 1,133 in the English division, 4,510 in Hongkew, 828 in Western district, Outside Roads and Pootung, and 622 in the French Settlement, an increase of 45 per cent. during the latter five years, against 23 per cent, during the previous five. In the next five years the foreign population increased nearly seventy per cent. (over 80 per cent. in adults and 375 per cent. in children) A census (inclusive of the French Settlement) was taken in 1910, when the total number of foreigners was 13,536 as against 12,328 in 1905. The population in 1905 was located, in the Central district (British Settlement) 1,444, Northern 6,018, Eastern 1,891 (the two latter being the extended longkew or American Settlement), Western residential suburb 1,286, Outside Roads 505, Pootung and hulks 353, French Concession 662, French Outside Roads 169. The fluctuations in the foreign population have been very remarkable. Between 1870 and 1880 the number of adult inales 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. The increase has been mostly in the Hongkew district, where the population is now eight times what it was in 1880, while during the same period the increase in the British Settlement has been under fifty per cent. While the foreign adult males have increased only four and a quarter times since the census of 1876 the number of women has increased over ten and of children nearly seven times. A curious fact is that of children under fifteen in the French Settlement only 26 were males, while 136 were females in 1895, 52 were males and 143 females in 1900, and 47 males and 221 females in 1905. The proportion of the different nationalities in all the Settlements in 1910 was as follows, the figures at the time of the 1905 census being given within parenthesis:-British, 4,465 (3.713); Japanese, 3,361 (2.157); Portuguese, 1,495 (1,331); German, 811 (785); Indian, 804 (568); American, 940 (991); French, 330 (393); Russian, 317 (354); Spanish, 140 (146); Italian, 121 (148); Danish, 113 (121); Austro-Hungarian, 102 (158). Although the Chinese have no right of residence within the Foreign Settlement, and indeed were not recognised by the original Land Regulations, some twenty thousand sought refuge within the bound-aries from the rebels in 1854, and when the city was besieged by the Taipings in 1860 there were, it is said, at least five hundred thousand natives within the Settlements. As they found some amenities from "squeezing" when under the protection of foreign- ers, and foreigners themselves being able to obtain a much higher rental for their land, and finding native house property a very profitable investment, no opposition was made to their residence. In 1870 there were in the three Settlements 75,047; in 1880, 107,812; in 1890, 168,129, in 1895, 240,995. The numbers by the last census (October, 1905) were, in the Central district, 120,289; Northern district, 130,399; Eastern district, 73,609; Western district, 68,100; in Foreign hongs, houses and mills, 12,458; in villages and huts within the limits, 37,503; in shipping and boats, 12,358; a total of 452,716, 212,517 men, 118,432 women, and 121,767 children, as compared with 345,276 in 1900. The Chinese population was calculated at 530,000 at the end of 1909, but the Captain