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(d) Population Afloat.

Table 6.

POPULATION, AFLOAT INCLUDING MERCANTILE MARINE & FOREIGN NAVIES.

1931

1921

Males Females

Total

Males

Females

Total

+

Victoria Harbour

19,475

14,310

33,785

24,286

14,618

28,854

5,069

Shaukiwan

2,528

2,343

4,871

3,766

2,948

6,714

1,843

Stanley

560

419

979

168

112

275

704

Aberdeen

3,590

3,158

6,748

4,543

3,381

7,924

1,176

Lamma Island

286

189

475

475

Po T'oi Group to Port

Shelter

3,019

2,122

5,141

Sai Kung

388

350

738

Sha Tin

61

45

106

2,574

1,337

3,911

4,528

Tolo Harbour & Mirs Bay..

607

467

1,074

Deep Bay & Lan Tau

815

565

1,380

Tai O

1,166

834

2,000

2,000

1,894

3,894

1,894

Cheung Chau

4,041

3,004

7,045

2,056

1,496

3,552

3,493

Tsun Wan

269

234

503

74

61

135

368

Totals

36,805

28,040 64,845

39,412

25,847

65,259

Mercantile Marine &c.

5,164

84

5,248

5,895

Totals

414

5,895

647

41,969 28,124 70,093 45,307

25,847

71,154

Excluding the Mercantile Marine there is a small decrease shown in the popula- tion afloat of 414. There is a large decrease of over 5,000 in the population living on small craft within the harbour.. There appears to be a tendency to abandon the large unwieldy cargo boat with a crew of from 15 to 25 persons in favour of the smaller junk, or lighter, or the steam launch. With a population that moves about so readily, increases or decreases in specific areas have, however, little meaning.

Racial Distribution of the Population.

The population has been grouped according to the main races represented in the Colony. It is not maintained that these "races' are exact ethnological divisions but they have been selected as suited to the circumstances of the Colony. The heading for "Race" was omitted in the Schedule in 1921 and it was, therefore, impossible to discover how many of the persons who claimed a particular nationality were from the homeland of that nation or were of different race from one or other of the Colonies or dependencies of the nation. The grouping has been made in order to facilitate this differentiation.

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