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stands on a granite pedestal eight feet high. The principal buildings on the French Concession are the Municipal Hall and the Consulate. In 1914 the new building of the Cercle Sportif Francais was thrown open to the members of the club and their friends, the more humble pavilion having given place to a handsome two- storied edifice. Á bronze statue of Admiral Protet, who was killed when directing an attack on Nan-yao on 17th May, 1862, stands in front of the Municipal Hall The Public Markets of the French Concession are large and well built and are perfect as regards sanitary arrangements. An efficient tram service is maintained in both Settlements."
INSTITUTIONS
Among the institutions of the place may be mentioned the Shanghai Volunteer Corps, composed of members of all nationalities, under the command of Major T. E Trueman. It consists of 58 officers and 1,165 other ranks, made up as follow:-Staff 8 Light Horse 51, Artillery 37, Maxim Company 48, Engineer Company 43, "A" Company (British) 110, “B” Company (British) 79, Customs Company 78, American Company 124 Portuguese Company 72, Japanese Company 92, Chinese Company 128, Shanghai Scottish Company 72, Italian Company 40, Reserve 92, Maritime Company 32. These numbers .are exclusive of the Medical Staff and the Band. On the declaration of war by China:
on Germany and Austria Hungary, the companies drawn from the subjects of those countries were disbanded. Originally formed in 1861,
1861, the Volunteer Force gradually went to decay, until the fear of attack after the massacre at Tientsin in 1870 caused its revival with considerable vigour. It again dwindled in numbers, but a re-organisation under the late Major Holliday proved successful, and in 1900, during the Boxer crisis, the membership of 300 was more than trebled and included a Naval Company since disbanded. At the inspection made just before the war by Major General Kelly C.B., Commandant of the Hongkong Garrison, the Corps was awarded high praise. Six officers and 675 men were present on parade. The infantry is armed with the Lee Metford and the new short rifles. A separate Company of Volunteers, under the order of the French Consul-General, was formed in May, 1897. The Fire Brigade consisted until 1919 of 42 foreign volunteers under chief officer M. W. Pett with a paid depart- mental engineer, and a staff of 187 native assistants, and was composed of three motor Fire Engines and one Hook and Ladder Companies, with six motor pumps, a spare fire engine and steam fire float, three escapes, 117 ladders and 37,375 feet of hose It attended 313 calls to fires, or supposed fires, in 1918, of which 37 were outside the settlement. It was pronounced to be one of the most efficient volunteer brigades in the world. In 1919, however, owing to a misunderstanding, the volunteer inembers tendered their resignations, which were accepted, and as from April the Brigadel became a purely professional organisation. Owing to the increased number of fires an independent brigade for the French Settlement was formed in April, 1908. There is now a Public Health Laboratory at which bacteriologica investigations and chemical analyses are carried out, vaccine lymph prepared, and the Pasteur treatment of rabies undertaken. The Settlements are well provided with hospitals. In addition to the large General Hospital, recently rebuilt and forming a four-storied block on the northern bank of the Soochow Creek, to which an extensior has now been built, there is the Victoria Nursing Home, presented by the com munity as a Jubilee Memorial, and enlarged in 1913, with a separate house for maternity cases, and mental wards and an efficient English nursing staff available for outside attendance, and also a large isolation hospital for infectious cases, native and foreign, all these being directly under Municipal control. In 1917 further extensions to the General Hospital were commenced. A bungalow to be used as a sanatorium in connection with the Nursing Home was
Home was purchased in 1907. There are likewise several private institutions under the control of the various missionary bodies. The other public institutions may be enumerated as,
the late Subscription Library containing about 12,650 volumes, which was taken under the control of the Council in 1913 and is now a Public Library with free reading room; a branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, with the nucleus of a Museum; a Masonic Club, a Sailors' Home, a Polytechnic Institution for Chinese, a Seamen's Library and Museum, a Wind Instrument Band of 8 Europeans and 29 Filipinos, paid by the Municipality, which gives concerts in the Public Gardens everyt day during the summer inonths, dance music in the Town Hall once a week, and Sunday concerts during the winter; a Race Club, possessing a course of a mile and a quartere which holds race meetings in May and November; a Country Club on the Bubbling Wellg Road; Parsee, Portuguese, and Customs Clubs; also Pony Paper Hunt, Cricket, Rifle,
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