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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 5TH MAY, 1880.

Secretary of State for the Colonies, and since, by

Notification in Government Gazette (1879, p. 153), the Government Central School has been, for special and. I presume, temporary reasons, constituted an independent branch of the Edu- cation Department, not subject to the control of the Inspector of Schools, I naturally confine myself in this Report principally to the affairs of those schools outside the Government Central School which are either conducted or subsidized by the Government through the Inspector of Schools. Nevertheless, in order to preserve uni- formity in the annual statistical records of the Education Department as a whole. I have included the statistics of the Central School, with the permission of the Headmaster, in the usual tables which will be found appended to this Report.

3. The total number of scholars subject to the

supervision of the Government, outside the Cen-

tral School, amounted to 2,870 in 1879, as con-

pared with 2 544 in 1878. Of that muumber of 2,870 scholars, there were in 1879 attending Government Schools (outside Central School)

1,453 scholars as against 1.193 in 1878, and in the Grant-in-aid Schools there were, under Gov-

ernment inspection, 1.417 scholars in 1879 as compared with 1,021 in 1878. There has been,

in fact, during the last three years a continuous slight decrease in the enrolment of scholars in the Government Schools, compensated by a continuous steady increase during the same

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three years in the enrolment of scholars in the Grant-in-aid Schools. Taking, however, all the schools subject to Government control or in- spection in this Colony together, there was in 1879 an increase in the total number of scholars (3,460 in 1879 as compared with 3.152 in 1878) amounting to 9.77 per cent.. as compared with the preceding year. The number of schools un- der Government supervision advanced in 1879 from 47 to 50, one of the three new schools (St. Joseph's College) bringing as many as 255 boys

under Government inspection. There has, there-

fore, been a slight advance made in 1879 as re- gards the number of schools and scholars brought under Government supervision, and from what

I have observed and learned as regards the Chinese portions of the town, I believe the number of purely native Confucian Schools, inde- pendent of Government, have also been slightly increased. Nevertheless I do not think that we can safely estimate the whole number of children in schools of all descriptions in the Colony at over 6,000, which with our present population of at least 145,000 inhabitants amounts to 4.13 per cent. In 1878 there were in the Primary Schools of Great Britain 2,782,454 children out of an estimated population of 28,448,326 people. Thus we have 9.74 per cent. of the whole population in Great Britain under primary instruction, whilst we have in Hongkong about 4.13 per cent. un- der instruction whether primory or otherwise. I calculate the number of uneducated children in the Colony, from 6 to 15 years

of

age, to amount to about 14,000.

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較諸前年計每百名增至 所有國家管轄之書館 中僅得四名有奇耳按做監院約計本港孩童自六歲至十 四名故於英國土民伸計前年時每百人中得初學學童九 奇查英國土民前年得二十八兆四十四萬八千三百二十六人串有初學學童二百七十八萬二千四百五十 塾學童其數難言在六千以外卽照本港現在諧色居民有壹拾四萬五千之多伸計每百人中得學童四名有 去歲爲增 按啵監院所見所聞本港華民儒教書雖未入國家管轄者數亦頗多但統計香港一區諮般書 館其中一爲聖約瑟書院有學童二百五十五名乃初國家管著故國家管轄之書館學童之數較諧前年 義學學童三年間2年增給如

·有奇惟國家管轄之書舘具數亦增按前齒有四十七間去歲有五十間新增三 前年有學童三千一百五十二名去年有學童三千四百六十名以去歲 八書塾就學者或有一萬四千之多 奇惟在香港各色居民兼計大小學童每百人

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