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OTHER DISTRICTS OF HONGKONG.
Workshops, Quarry Bay Shipyard (several steel-framed structures in course of erection entirely demolished).
Two houses on M. L. 10, Shaukiwan (portion of flank walls and roof collapsed). No. 17 Sai Wan Ho (total collapse).
No. 20 Shaukiwan West (front wall on 1st floor collapsed).
Nos. 21-29 (odd numbers). Shaukiwan West (major portion of rear walls collapsed and fell on four old two-storied houses causing them to collapse).
No. 36 Shaukiwan West (front wall on 1st floor collapsed).
No. 84 Shaukiwan West (front and flank walls and roof collapsed). House at Shaukiwan West (total collapse).
No. 28 Praya, Shaukiwan (roof collapsed). Factory on S. I. L. 22 (partial collapse).
Soy Factory S. I. L. 104 (partial collapse).
Nos. 1 and 2 Mission Street, Shaukiwan (total collapse of one house; partial collapse of other).
Smith's Villas, Magazine Gap (rendered dangerous).
Brickworks, Aberdeen, Coolie Quarters (total collapse).
No. 55 Temple Street, No. 117 do. No. 24 do. No. 62 do.
KOWLOON.
Yaumati, (total collapse).
No. 67 Kennedy Street, Yaumati (total collapse).
No. 1-8 Fook Shing Lane do. (flank wall and roof collapsed).
Nos. 36-40 (even numbers) Portland Street, Mongkok (flank and party walls and roofs collapsed).
Nos. 52-58 (even numbers) Station Street North, Yaumati (rear walls collapsed).
No. 27 Ho Mun Tin, Dyeing Shed (total collapse).
Nos. 40 and 42 Market Street. Hung Hom (rear walls on 1st floor collapsed).
Nos. 62-66 (even numbers), Kowloon City Road (flank and party walls and roofs collapsed).
59 persons in all were killed by the collapses enumerated above. Many other buildings throughout the Colony were partially unroofed or otherwise injured by the storm which was of exceptional violence.
Enquiries into the collapses of Nos. 36-40 Portland Street and Nos. 21-29 Shaukiwan West were held by the Coroner, the buildings in both cases being of recent construction. In the case of the former, the jury returned a verdict of manslaughter against the architect but the Attorney General entered a nolle prosequi. In the case of the latter, the jury returned a verdict of manslaughter against the Contractor and, as the result of a trial before the Supreme Court, he was sentenced to one day's imprisonment, the Chief Justice expressing the view that the supervision exercised by the Government had been inadequate.
31. Collapses.-No collapses occurred except those due to the rainstorms or typhoon.
32. Tests of Mortar.—Attention was continued to be given to the testing of mortar, 138 samples being taken from works in progress. Though still not up to the standard desirable, in no case was the quality found to be so inferior as to warrant a prosecution.
33. Prosecutions for Defective Building Work.--Two fines of $200 each and one of $500 were imposed in connection with defective bonding of walls, &c.
34. Cemeteries.-In conjunction with the drainage and other work transferred from the Sanitary Department, the laying out of the Chinese Cemeteries was also handed over to the Public Works Department. Surveys for the purpose of defining the various sections into which each cemetery has to be sub-divided were found to be necessary but, owing to vacancies in the staff, it was not found possible to undertake them.
A new cemetery was partially laid out at Kowloon Tong, some new terraces were formed at Mount Caroline Cemetery and, in accordance with usual practice, exhumation was carried out over a considerable portion of the Chinese Cemetery at Aberdeen preparatory to utilizing the area again.
The Cemeteries given as authorized in the Schedule attached to Section 91 of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance No. 1 of 1903 are as under :—
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