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PUBLIC BATH-HOUSES.
The free Public Bath-houses erected by the Government at Wanchai and in Pound Lane, Taipingshan, and also the temporary bath-houses, fitted up in Chinese tenement houses rented for this purpose, at 92 Second Street and 2 Sheung Fung Lane, have been in considerable demand by the poor class of Chinese and the following figures show the total number of persons who have used these bath-houses during the year 1910:~
Wanchai, 99,294
Pound Lane, 173,220
Second Street, 64,496
Sheung Fung Lane, 22,446
Total, 359,456
The numbers in 1909 were 452,676.
Separate baths, with an ample supply of hot water, are furnished at each of these bath-houses—that at Wanchai is for men only, and is largely used by the coal coolies engaged in coaling ships in the Harbour, and that at Second Street is also for men and boys only. The Pound Lane bath-house has separate buildings for men and for women and children, and the Sheung Fung Lane bath-house is for women and children only.
AMBULANCE SERVICE.
Ambulances can be procured not only at any hour of the night or day by telephoning (No. 363) to the Disinfecting Station, Taipingshan, but additional ones are stationed at the following places for use by the Police in all cases of emergency :--
The Bay View Police Station.
No. 1 Police Station.
The Recreation Ground, Happy Valley.
Eastern District Sanitary Matshed (near No. 2 Police Station).
The Seamen's Institute, Gresson Street.
The City Hall.
The Supreme Court.
The Central Police Station.
The Fire Brigade Station, Queen's Road Central,
The New Western Market.
The Tung Wa Hospital.
The entrance gate in Queen's Road West to the Government Civil Hospital.
The Western District Sanitary Office.
The Cattle Depôt, Kennedy Town.
Outside the City limits ambulances are also stationed at the Pokfulam Police Station, at No. 6 Police Station, Peak, at Aberdeen, Shaukiwan and Stanley Police Stations, at the Water...