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The population living on small floating craft in the waters of the Colony is, with very few exceptions entirely Chinese. The Mercantile Marine was represented on Census night mainly by small coasting steamers and the bulk of the crew Chinese. There were 37 British ships, 9 Japanese, 9 Norwegian, 7 Chinese, 4 Portuguese, and 2 Danish ships in port; and a further 12 ships under repair in dock. Only 2 British ships and 2 Japanese ships had crews exceeding 100 persons. In- cluded under Mercantile Marine were also two gunboats, one French and one Portu- guese, and one American naval transport.

(e) Summary.

Table 11.

Europeans

Chinese

Eurasians

Local Portuguese

Indians

Japanese

Others

Totals Non-Chinese

Totals

British Races

Other European Races & U.S.A.

Grand Totals

Hong Kong Island

Kowloon

New Territories

Afloat

240,863

140,563 114,544

49,111 48,670

40,880 28,058

158,745

3,408

1.611

401

410

190

259

439

563

1,640

474

785

655

246

237

7,104 4,209 247,067 162,954 410,921

2,063

1,273

393

336

192

189

1,044

1,129

1,942

238

211

182

210

166

6,055

3,513 146,618 118,057 264,675

753

37

7

4

5

3

2

267

44

1

1

1,036

88 50,147 48,758 98,905

5,219

7

442

43

2

17

1

140

353

19

79

2

6,246

71

47,126 28,124 75,250

Totals

471,417 350,012

11,438

2.928

1,243

793

389

448

1,503

1,694

8.989

756

1,849

850

580

406

20,441

7.881

491,858

357,893 849,751

Of the total population, persons of Chinese race form 96.67% and of the civilian population 97.70%.

Of the British races there were 3,756 males and 2,928 females in the civilian population, the Defence Forces, which were enumerated separately, amounting to 7,682.

The races given, or rather the descent claimed, were as follows:~~~

Defence Forces.

Civilians.

Males.

Total.

Male.

Female. Land.

Afloat.

English

2,681

2,142

1,367

4,602

10,792

Scotch

737

517

741

142

2,137

Irish

236

164

137

128

665

Welsh

60

58

193

70

681

Australian

30

23

1

54

New Zealander

8

2

10

Tasmanian

1

2

3

Canadian

3

20

24

Totals

3,756

2,928

2,738

4,944

14,366

In 1911 the number of British civilians was 4,114.