SHANGHAI
847
The Revenue of the French Concession for 1911 was Tls. 592,217. The sources from which it was derived were:-
Land Tax, five-tenths of 1 per cent.... Foreign House Tax, 8 per cent.
Native House Tax, 12 per cent.
Impôts extérieurs and un-built-on Land
Licences, principally vehicles and opium divans Taxes Various
Rent of Quays and Jetties and Wharfage Dues...
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...Tls. 101,055.91
22,257.25 140,728.72
18,708.96
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146,532.68
52,515.16
78,021.66
31,092.70
1,304.22
Slaughter-Houses, Tls. 11,551,44, Miscellaneous, Tls. 23,298.22 Interest, Tls....
Tls. 592,217.26
The Expenditure of the French Municipality in 1911 amounted to Tls. 773,278 and was divided as under:—
Secretariat (Staff and General Charges)
Police Department
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...Tls. 43.014.52
Public Works, Tls. 122,655.66, Works in Progress Tls. 33,240,79 Budget Special, Against Loan Tls. 250,000, for Land and Buildings Medical&Sanitary,Tls.36,783,88, Allocationset Donation Tls.22,149.26 Lighting, Tls, 40,261,46, Fire Brigade, Tls. 10,988,30.......
Schools, Tls. 20,011,86, Telegraphs and Telephones Tls. 7,060,43 Sundries, Tls. 28,271.99, Interest, Tls, 57,491,61 ...
...
...
157,528.36
155,896,45
193,820.30
58,933.14
51.249.76
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27,072.29
8,763,60
Tis. 773.278.42
The Revenue for 1912, including the balance of Tls. 40,320,55 from 1911, was estimated at Tis, 651,40%, and the Expenditure at Tls. 651,277. A Special Budget for public works extraordinary to the amount of Tls. 117,380 was to be covered by loan.
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 81, a total of 5,589. In 1870, the total in the Ando-American Settlement was 1,66; in 1876. 1,673 ; in 1880, 2,197; in 1885, 3,673; in 1890, 3,821; in 1895, 4,684; in 190, 7,3 6; in 1905, 11,497. By the census of 15th October, 1910, there were in both Settlements a total of 15,012 foreigners; 1,356 in the British Settlement, now called Central District, 8,658 in Hongkew now Northern and Eastern Districts, 3,522 in Western Dis- trict, Outside Roads and Pootung, and 1,476 in the French Settlement, an increase of 2174 per cent. during the latter five years, against 45 per cent. during the previous five. The fluctuations in the foreign population have been very remark- able. 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. The increase has been mostly in the Hongkew district, where the population is now nine times what it was in 1880, while during the same period the British Settlement has increased by only 188. While the foreign adult males have increased only five and a quarter times since the census of 1880 the number of women has increased over eight and of children nearly six 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 ales and 221 females in 1905, 134 males and 235 females in 1910. The proportion of the different nationalities in all the Settlements in 1910 was as follow, 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); American, ' 40 (91); German, ~11 (785); French, 33 (393); Russian, 317 (354); Spanish, 140 (146); Italian, 124 (148); Danish, 113 (121); Austro-Hungarian, 102 (158); other Europeans, 368 418); Indian 804 (568); other Asiatics 166 (214). The proportion of the different nationalities in the French Settlement are given as follows: British 317, Japanese 106, Portuguese 15, German 148, Indian 25, American 44, French 436, Russian 7, Spanish 2, Italian 12, Danish 19, Austrian 12, Belgian 12, Norwegian 14, Swedish 4, Swiss 7, Greeks 2, Dutch 16, Mussulmen 3, Tonkinese 207, Eurasians 68. 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
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