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AMBULANCE SERVICE.
During the year a more complete ambulance service has been established throughout the City, and ambulances can now be not only procured at any hour of the night or day by telephoning (No. 363) to the Disinfecting Station, Tai-ping-shan, but additional ones have been stationed at the following places for use by the Police in all cases of emergency :-
No. 1 Police Station.
Eastern District Sanitary Office.
The Sailors' and Soldiers' Home, Arsenal Street.
The City Hall.
The Clock Tower.
The Central Police Station,
The Fire Brigade Station, Queen's Road Central.
The New Western Market.
The Tung Wa Hospital.
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The entrance gate in Queen's Road West to the Government Civil Hospital. The Western District Sanitary Office.
while outside the City limits ambulances have been stationed at the Pokfulain Police Station, at Aberdeen, Shaukiwan and Stanley Police Stations, at the Water Police Station at Tsim- tsa-tsui and at the Kowloon-Canton Railway camps. The Kowloon Disinfecting Station (Telephone No. 44 K.) also serves Kowloon, in the same manner that the City is served by the Taipingshan Disinfecting Station.
These are all haud ambulances, on bicycle or light wooden wheels, with rubber tyres, and of the St. John Ambulance partern. Those stationed in the City are in the charge of the various Plague Inspectors, whose duty it is to see that they are kept clean and efficient, and that they are disinfected after use. At the Sanitary Stations coolies are always available for the conveyance of these ambulances, but at the other stations the Police must obtaini volunteers or engage street coolies for this purpose, and must then notify the Sanitary Department that the ambulance has been used, so that it may be cleansed at once. It is proposed to place additional ambulances at other Stations as soon as the ambulances can be built.
OVERCROWDING.
The following Table shows the number of visits paid during the year and the number of houses found overcrowded :—
No. of floors found overcrowded.
Health District.
No. of night visits paid.
1
94
41
211
88
Nil
Nil
City
250
117
5
62
31
of
17
12
Victoria
145
42
8
103
61
9
285
126
(10
74
29
511
54
11
Kowloon.
12
98
8
1,393
566