398
The following table gives the number of Chinese houses and floors (i.e., separate Chinese dwellings in most cases) and the number of inmates per
house and per
One-
Two-Three-Four Five- HEALTH story story story story story DISTRICT. Dwell- Dwell-Dwell- Dwell- Dwell-
ings. ings. ings. | ings. |ings.
floor :--
!
Number
Total Dwell-
Total Floors.
ings.
Average Number of Floors per Dwell-
of Empty
Number Number of Number of of Persons per Persons per
Empty
Occupied Occupied
Dwelling.
Floors.
House.
Floor.
ings.
1
173
437
114
2
726
1,397
1.9
15
50
14.8
7.8
2
14
3
2
4
2
སྨྱུས ོ ོ
429
468
75
÷
986
2,576
2.6
17
54
23.9
9.2
Most of the Chinese in this Dis-
23
13
38
87
2.3
trict occupy quarters in Eu- ropean Offices and Dwellings.
56
474
372
41 945
3,229
3.4
23
20
125
26.0
7.7
18
164
571 220
27 1,000
3,074
3.1
00
8
47
22.7
7.4
6
36
74
485
235
17 847
2,664
3.1
7
8
40
522
233
808 2,611
3.2
35
23
84
22.7
7.2
36
134
18.0
5.6
1
64 590
174
1
830 2,600 3.1
15
65
23,8
7.6
9
26
10
88888
530 429
50
1,035
2,573
2.5
9
37
23.8
9.6
69
356
213
9
:
647 1,456
2.2
54
126
18.5
8.2
Totals and
Averages
3492.173 3,879 | 1,370 917,862 22,267 2.8
200
730
22.6
8.0
The following table gives the acreage and total population of each Health District of the City of Victoria and the number of persons per acre :—
Built-over Health Total
Arca
Chinese Non-Chinese
Houses.* District. Acreage. (including Houses.
Non-Chinese
Chinese
Population!
Persons per
Population.
(including
acre on built-
streets).
Troops).
over areas.
1
531
119
726
68
10,540
620
93.8
243
125
986
40†
23,250
J 1,482 Troops
1,006
205.9
3
164
124
38
349
5,410
2,154
61.0
4
56
49
945
159
24,060
1,510
521.8
5
29
27
1,000
40
22,510
432
849.7
6
30
23
847
7
18,720
70
$16.9
36
28
808
7
13,930
70
500.0
8
49
38
830
ن)
19,430
150
515.3
9
44
43
1,035
18
24,420
120
570.7
10
252
99
647
44
10,980
332
114.3
1,434
675
7,862
738
173,250
7,946
268.4
There are also some 1,660 Chinese servants, etc. resident at the Peak.
From this table it will be seen that Nos. 5 and 6 Health Districts which are situated in the centre of the city show acute surface crowding while Districts 9, 4, 8, and 7 are almost as densely crowded. Owing to the conformation of the island the only possible remedy for this acute congestion is the provision of more ready means of access to the outlying districts of the city, and it is to be hoped that the Government will see their way, at no distant date, to provide, or to encourage the pro- vision of tramways to East Point and the Shaukiwan Road with nominal fares for workmen, thus offering an inducement to the Chinese to reside in these suburbs.
The density of population of the City of Victoria as a whole, that is to say, including all the out- lying vacant lands and the villages in No. 1 Health District, the Public Gardens in No. 3 Health Dis- trict, and all the unoccupied hill-side below the upper limit of the City Health Districts (i.e. about 450 feet above high-water mark) is 126 persons per acre. In 1898 the average density of popu lation in the administrative County of London was 60 persons per acre, while in Glasgow it was 61, in Liverpool 50, and in Edinburgh 47 persons per acre-Glasgow being the most densely crowded of the thirty-six large towns of the United Kingdom.
*Exclusive of Barracks.
† A number of upper floors of Chinese houses are occupied by Non-Chinese in this District.
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