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RETURNS ACCOMPANYING THIS REPORT.
Attached are the :-
Statistics of Population.
Meteorological Return.
Yearly Return of Diseases and Deaths at the Government Civil Hos-
pital, the Gaol and the Tung Wah Hospitals.
Hongkong, March 21st, 1903.
J. M. ATKINSON,
Principal Civil Medical Officer,
RETURN of the STATISTICS of POPULATION for the year 1902.
Europeans and Whites including Portuguese aud Army and Navy.
Africaus, East
Indians and
Malays in- cluding Indian
Chinese.
Total.
Troops.
Number of Inhabitants in 1902,...
12,805
5,719
298,300
311,824
of Births during the year 1902,
119
115
966
1,200
of Deaths
J
"1
1902,
135
217
6,431
6,783
ور
of Immigrants,,
1902,
129,812
129,812
51
of Emigrants",
1902,
:
71,711
71,711
27
"
of Inhabitants in 1901,.
13,906
6,190
280,564
300,660
Increase,
12,736
12,736
Decrease,
1,101
471
1,572
Solar
Maximum.
Shade
Maximun.
METEOROLOGICAL RETURN for the year 1902.
TEMPERATURE.
RAIN-
FALL.
Shade
Minimum.
Range.
Mean.
Amount in
inches.
Degree of
Humidity.
General
WINDS.
Direction,
a
C
O
Miles
P. b.
%
January,
116.7
68.4
59.2
9.2
63.1
0.28
67
February,
113.4
65.0
54.3
10.7
59.5
0.02
60
March,
111.9
72.9
64.5
8.4
68.1
0.48
81
April,...
124.2
69.6
8.1
73.1
1.85
93
EEE
13.5
E by N
12.7
Ε
12.5
13.4
May,
129.0
83.9
76.0
7.9
79.4
26.73
84
SE
12.0
June,
127.6
84.2
77.6
6.6
90.3
15.44
83
SSE
14.5
July,
134.3
86.1
78.3
7.8
81.8
16.26
$2
SE
14.3
August,..
134.8
86.9
77.4
9,5
81.8
26.50
83
SE by E
10.2
September,
138.8
87.3
76.2
11.1
80.8
0.64
65
ENE
8.0
October,..
131.6
81.1
73.3
7.8
76.7
0.93
November,....
119.5
75.9
67.6
8.3
71.5
5.40
December,
105,2
68.5
61.0
7.6
64.6
2.97
RER
70
E
14.1
74
ENE
11.4
75
ENE
11.2
Year,.
123.9
78.2
69.6
8.6
73.4
97.50
67 E by S
12.3
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