Table I.
Fires during the Year 1910,
No. Date. Time. Situation of Fire. No. of Buildings Destroyed. Damage. Cause. Wholly. Partly. 1 Jan. 13th 12.35 a.m. House No. 1, Connaught Road West. 1 $13,000 Unknown. 2 25th " 331, Shanghai Street, Yaumati, $3,000 Overheating of medicinal roots placed over a charcoal fire to dry. 3 28th 1.00 a.m. 52, Reclamation Street, Yaumati,.. 1 $14,000 Careless use of joss sticks and lamp. 4 Feb. 14th 1.39 a.m. 18, Bowrington Road West,... $63 Unknown. 5 21st 12.20 a.m. 546, Sheungshui, 1 $100 $50 $300 * Lighted candles setting fire to joss papers stored close to the shrine. 6 Mar, 6th $.30 p.m. A stack of grass at Aberdeen, $4,000 Unknown. 7 19th > Shaukiwan, $4,645 | Unknown. 8 25th 9.00 p.m. Unoccupied matshed at Cheungchow, 1 matshed. -2 M 9 23rd 11.30 p.m. Honse No. 248, Shanghai Street, Yaumati,... 1 10 Apr. 6th 4.10 a.m. A matshed outside Un Long Market, 1 matshed. 4 houses. 11 " 9.30 p.m. Kennedy Town Plague Hospital, 2 $300 Overheating of a bean curd drying stove. 12 13th June 1.00 a.m. House No. 39, Shanghai Street. Yaumati,. 1 $40 Unknown, 13 11th 2.15 a.m. Matshed at Chun Lung, Shankiwan, 1 matshed. 1 Carelessness with a lighted match, 14 12th 3.45 p.m. House No. 7, U Shek Kok, Sha Tau Kok, 1 $105 Some bundles of grass accidentally caught fire. 15 17th 2.30 p.m. A small matshed on the Kosloon-Canton Railway, Tai Po... 1 matshed. $650 Upsetting of a kerosine lamp. 16 Aug. 8th 2.20 a.m. 128, Shanghai Street, Yaumati, 1 $5,000 Unknown. 17 15th 3.40 a.m. 14 * Two men were charged for arson and discharged at the Criminal Sessions. 18 Sept. 4th 2.45 a.m. 4, Sai On Lane, West Point, $56,000 Careless use of naked oil lamps while taking in bunker coal. 19 14th 1.50 a.m. 100, Jervois Street, $17,000 S.S. Kam Chon, Victoria Harbour,..J 18