1918

SHANGHAI
717
Public Band Tls. 49,908.61
Education, including Library 125,860.29
Finance Department 71,859.64
Secretariat, Tls. 63,867.84, Tax Office, Tls. xOl,140.83 165,008.67
General, Tls. 114,463.90, Stock and Stores, Tls. 75,705.45 190,169.35
Interest, Tls. 169,649.48, Redemption of Debentures, Tls.202,200.00 371,849.48
Tls. 2,925,572.'1
The surplus of ordinary income over expenditure, Tls. 407,578. and extraordinary
income from various sources, amounted together to Tls. 690,334 and the extraordinary
expenditure for drainage, land, roads, and buildings to Tls. 1,163,018 leaving a deficit
carried forward of Tls. 472,684.
The Ordinary Municipal Revenue for 1917 was estimated at Tls. 3,462,350 and the
Ordinary Expenditure at Tls. 3,236,435; the Extraordinary Revenue, consisting of
estimated surplus of Tls. 252,915. Miscellaneous, Tls. 20,000 and Tls. 1,000,000 to be raised
by debentures, at Tls. 1,245,915 and the Extraordinary Expenditure at Tls. 1,335,424.
The Revenue of the French Concession for 1916 was Tls. 970,081.57. The sources
from which it was derived were:—
Land Tax, five-tenths of 1 per cent.
Foreign House Tax, 8 per cent.
Native House Tax, 12 per cent.
Licences, principally vehicles
Taxes, various
Rent of Quays and Jetties, Wharfage Dues,
Slaughter- Houses
Schools ... ... ..
Police
Public Works
Miscellaneous
Tls.147,400.00
50.905.06
199,542.14
260,105.00
60,026.16
123,277.56
16,304.24
13,060.89
63,976.09
22,875.93
12,595.51
Tls. 970,081.54
The Expenditure of the French Municipality in 1916 amounted to Tls. 1,1
and was divided as under:—
Secretariat (Staff and General Charges)
Police Department
Public Works
Medical and Sanitary
Allowances and Donations
Lighting, Tls. 55,428.25, Fire Brigade, Tls. 12,514.54 ..
Schools, Tls. 39,786.33, Telegraphs and Telephones, Tls. 16,99^
Volunteers, Tls. 3,250.63, Municipal Printing Office, Tls. 6,82
Miscellaneous Sundries
Interest and Sinking Fund
Public Works Extraordinary
Tls. 48,
198,
233,
106,
348,
,603.83
,090.52
,004.46
,853.28
,537.95
,942.79
,780.62
,078.75
,205.00
,769.22
,080.89
Tls. 1,191,947.36.
The ordinary Revenue for 1917, including a balance of Tls. 110,424.26 from 1916, was
estimated at Tls. 970,599.26 and the Expenditure at Tls. 957.008.00, and the
Extraordinary Receipts, including balance of Tls. 99,642.38 from 1916 at Tls. 114,787.48
and the Extraordinary Expenditure at Tls. 262,687.52
Population
The Foreign population increased rapidly up to 1865, but declined considerably
during the next ten years. The census of 1865 gave the number of Foreign residents
in the three Settlements as 2,757, army and navy (British) 1,851, shipping 981, a total
of 5,589. In 1870, the total in the Anglo-American Settlement was 1,665; in 1876, 1,673 ;
in 1880, 2,197; in 1885, 3,673; in 1890, 3,821; in 1895, 4,684; in 1900, 7,396; in 1905,
11,497. By the census of 15th October, 1910, there were in both Settlements a total
of 15,012 foreigners; 1,356 in the British Settlement, now called Central District,
8,658 in Hongkew, now Northern and Eastern Districts, 3,522 in Western Dis-