Classification and Number of HOUSES, SHOPS, &c.,- Continued.
Nn..
CRISESE Suors, &c.
| VICTORIA. | VILLAGES. TOTAL
CHINESH SHOPE, do.
VICTORIA. VILLAGES. TOTAL.
Brought forward,
2,100
Pig Dealers.
4
651 2
2,751
Brought forward,
6
Tanners,
2,212 2
745 2,957
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ado
2
Preserved Fruit Manufactories,
3
1
4
...
Tailors (for Europeans,)
36
36
Prieste Houses,
3
...
3
(for Chinese,)...
25
25
Quilt Cotton Manufactories,
2
2 Tepos' Houses,
5
10
15
Rattan Workers,
4
4
Tabacconists,
7
Rope and Sailmakers,
Salt Boilers,
Salt Dealers,
Sedan Chairs to hire,
School Houses,
Shoe Makers,
Sheep Dealers,
7
10
17
Tile and Brick Dealers, ....
3
3
3
3
Tin Mongers,...
2
No.
...
3
Umbrella Makers,
7
6
6
***
Undertakers,
2
4
13
Vacant Houses,
10
75
85
39
39
Washermen's Houses,
41
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:
2
Wood Sellers,
30
Slop Shops,
3
3
Trades not specified,
15
Stationers,... Stone Cutters,
Carried forward,..........
5
5
...
Houses newly built, or building, .
45
·
1254
24
...
1224
72
96
2,212
745
2,957
2,422
836
3,258
C. MAY,
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Officiating Registrar General.
Abstract of Returns furnished from each House occupied by CHINESE in the COLONY OF HONGKONG, stating the
NÜMBER of PERSONS resident therein, MORTALITY, &c.
GENERAL
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CHILDREN.
TOTAL POPU» LATION OF
DRATHS.
:
NAME OF DISTRICT ON PLACE.
Male,
Femala,
BACH
Mols.
Presale.
PLACE.
In the Colony.
Out of the Colony.
TOTAL MORTALITY,
OCCUPATION
OF THE INHABITANTS.
Po
City of Victoria,
...
28,817
6,620
8,007
2,399
40,843
679
1,413
2,092
Aberdeen and vicinity,
Heong-kong,
•
Hok-isni and Kasewan,
Hong-beong-loo,
Pook-foo-lum,
664
125
91
43
923
11
317
73
59
44
493
24
6
5
2
37
98
24
14
7
143
2
25
18.
13
:15
71
Saiwan,
Sei-ing-poon,
Sheako,
75
38
23
18
154
172
62
10
6
250
197
59
52
37
345
Sheak-tong-tsui,
Show-ke-wan,
165
89
36
19
309
...
158
45
42
23
268
Soo-kan-poo,
Stanley,
+--
Tsut-che-moy,
Wong-ma-kok,
Wong-nei-chong,
Wong-kok-tsui,
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1,169
242
186
113
1,660
659
269
97
78
ond
1,003
37
13
2
2
64
...
Ty-tam-took and Tytam,
46
26
18
10
100
17
13
4
2
36
...
147
115
63
55
380
...
24
14
9
6
63
2002
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Chinese who have pecuniary means
when seized with severe illness remove to their native places. I estimate the mor-
tality out of the Colony at 3 per Cent.
Trade
11 Fishing and Trade
Agriculture
Do.
N
Do.
Trade
17 | Fishing and Trade
Stone Cutters
1
3
Stone Cutters Agriculture
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Fishing
of E
3
Stone Cutters
5
Do.
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2
Agriculture
1
Do.
9
Do:
KIN
2
Do.
32,711
7,851
3,681
2,879
47,122
794
1,413
2,207
C. MAY, Officiating Registrar General.
T
RETURN shewing the MORTALITY amongst the CHINESE, during the Year 1855.
City of Victoria,
Dead bodies found exposed in Victoria, and buried by the Police, Number of Chinese died in Gaol and Government Civil Hospital,
a Aberdeen, and vicinity,
Heong-kong,
6 Stanley, Ty-tam, and vicinity,
Sheako*,
Sai-wan,
-
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...
...
Sei-ing-poon, and Sheak-tong-tsui,
c Show-ke-wan, and vicinity,
Soo-kan-poo,
Wong-nei-chong,
...
...
...
शः । ।।
Dead bodies found exposed in Villages, and buried by the Police,
Estimated Mortality out of the Colony, as per last Retum.........
POPULATION OFÀ DIED IN THE W DIED OUT OF THE
BACH PLACE.
COLONY.
COLONY.
TOTAL MORTALITY.
40,843
420
aba
157
102
Total in Victoria,.
40,843
679
994
11
493-
1
......
...
•
1,176
21
345
154
...
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***
659
618
10
...
***
***
...
1,169
60
380
9
***
6
Total in Villages...................................
5,788
115
...
46,631
......
794
......
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420
*P!
157
Col
102
679
11
21
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10 50
6
115
1,413
*1,413
2,207
No. 46,
a Aberdeen and vicinity, includes Aberdeen and Pok-foo-lum.
C. MAY, Officiating Registrar General.
b Stanley, Ty-tam, and vicinity, includes Stanley, Ty-tam, Hok-tsui, Kase-wan, Ty-tam-took, and Wong.mi-kok.
c Show-ke-wan and vicinity, includes Show-ke-wan, Hong.heong-loo, Tsut-che-moy, and Wong-kok-tsal.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
In order to prevent unnecessary delay in the Despatch of Chinese Passenger Ships reported ready for sea notice is hereby given, that—
1. It is not permitted to enter any of the passengers on the Ship's Articles as Cooks or Stewards (if their names be excluded from the Passenger List) notwithstanding that compensation is made, by a remission of passage- money, for their services in these their respective capacities.
2. The Ship will be detained if passengers whose respective ages exceed 12 years be entered on the list as
children.
3. To the Passenger List must be appended the names af the Cabin Passengers, if any, the description and
number of the Crew, and all persons on the ship's articles (mentioning the number of Chinese); and a me-. morandum of the total number of souls on board the ship.
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 9th April, 1856.
W. T. MERCER,
Colonial Secretary.
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