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No. 1901
HONGKONG.
REPORT OF THE INSPECTOR OF SCHOOLS, FOR THE YEAR 1900.
Laid before the Legislative Council by Command of His Excellency the Governor.
EDUCATION DEPARTMENT,
HONGKONG, 24th April, 1901.
SIR-I have the honour to submit the following report on the schools under my supervision during the year 1900.
2. GENERAL STATISTICS.-Table No. V shews the changes which have taken place in the number and class of schools and in the number of scholars during the last ten years, and enables a comparison to be made with the years 1870 and 1880. Compared with the year 1899 there is, except in the Government English Schools and in the Grant-in-Aid Portuguese Schools, a decrease in the enrol- ment in each class of school. In the case of the English Grant-in-Aid Schools this
may
be accounted for by some schools, hitherto free, charging fees. In the case of the Chinese Schools it is partly due to an actual decrease in the number of schools at work during the year as although there is a nominal increase of one on the roll of Grant-in-Aid Schools there is an increase of nine in the number of schools temporarily closed. The following Tables enable a more detailed comparison to be drawn between the year 1890, the year 1893-the last normal year, as the statistics for every year since have been affected by the Plague--and 1900.
1890.
Government and Grant-in-Aid Schools.
CHINESE.
ENGLISH.
PORTUGUESE.
TOTAL.
Schools. Scholars. Schools. Scholars.
Schools. Scholars.
Schools. Scholars.
Victoria,
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51
3,140
15
2,489
280
70
5,909
Villages of Hongkong,
19
484
189
22
673
Kowloon,
16
487
1
38
17
525
Total,..
86
4,111
19
2,716
4
280
109
7,107
CHINESE.
1893.
Government and Grant-in-Aid Schools.
ENGLISH.
PORTUGUESE.
TOTAL.
Scholars.
Schools. Scholars. Schools. Scholars. Schools. Scbolars. Schools.
Victoria,
68
4,034
20
Villages of Hongkong,
10
273
3,014
114
Kowloon,
21
932
1
53
Total,.....
99
5,239
23
3,181
4
sch
186
92
7,234
:
12
387
22
186
126
25
985
8,606
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