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Part II.

AREA OF THE COLONY, BUILDINGS, DWELLINGS

AND FAMILIES.

The area of Hong Kong Island, including Green Island and Aplichau, is 32 square miles; that of Kowloon to the old boundary is 3 square miles and the New Territories extend to an area of 356 square miles; a total of 391 square miles New Kowloon as defined by Ordinance comprises 15.70 square miles so that Kowloon and New Kowloon have an area of 18.70 square miles. The areas of smaller divisions of the City of Victoria and of the Kowloon Peninsula were kindly supplied by the Superin- tendent of Surveys and have been employed in a later portion of this report in calculating the density of population in specified areas.

In enumerating the buildings and dwellings of the population one floor in a tenement house was considered to be one dwelling, though as each floor is separated. into three or four divisions (by cubicles &c.) more than

than one family usually occupied one floor. It was unfortunately impossible to obtain statistics of the number of families in the Colony in 1931; such figures were given in 1901, 1906, and 1911, but were omitted in 1921. On this occasion the instructions given to the enumerators were perhaps not clear enough and the omission was made in so many districts that the remaining figures had to be discarded also.

The following table gives the number of buildings and dwellings in each Health District, excluding Naval and Military property :-

Table I.

Inhabited

Houses

Unoccupied Houses

Houses in course of erection

Buildings not used as dwellings.

North Point to

Shaukiwan.

3,026

248

60

H. D. 1.

2,651

358

23

38

1A

* 1,474

317

83

18

2A

1,478

228

6

2

2,871

241

20

3

2,336

357

10

2,817

98

112

5

1,672

48

36

6

1,495

56

78

6A

567

14

7A

735

34

7

682

1,369

58

64

2,372

116

114

2,824

162

2

133

10

2,538

411

19

82

10A

1,220

146

3

47

Hill District

283

10

3

3:

South of Island

1,977

180

10

14

Total Hong Kong

33,705

3,082

161

847

H. D. 11

2,577

169

20

60

12

3,733

277

6

71

13

2,482

155

3

39

14

3,049

172

49

40

15

3,514

426

5

77

16

4,786

442

75

137

17

3,504

258

101

166

Total Kowloon

23,645

1,899

259

590

Total Hong Kong

& Kowloon.

57,350

4.981

420

1,437

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