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At the above mentioned stations coolies for ambulance work are available at any time.
There are many other places from which ambulances may be obtained in emergency but as there are no coolies of the Sanitary Department stationed at these it is necessary for the police to obtain volunteers or engage street coolies for the ambulances when required.
The following is a list of such places :----
1. In the City of Victoria:-
No. 1 Police Station.
The Recreation Ground, Happy Valley.
The Seamen's Institute, Gresson Street. The City Hall.
The Post Office.
The Central Police Station.
The Fire Brigade Station, Queen's Road Central.
The New Western Market.
The Tung Wah Hospital.
The entrance gate to the Government Hospital, in Queen's Road West.
The Cattle Depôt, Kennedy Town.
2. In Hongkong outside the city limits:
Bay View Police Station. Shaukiwan Police Station. Aberdeen Police Station. Stanley Police Station.
Pokfulam Police Station.
3. In Kowloon :----
Water Police Station, Tsim Sha Tsui. Sham Shui Po Police Station.
Kowloon City Police Station.
4. In the New Territories at Tai Po.
During the year 1916 the ambulances were used 489 times in Hongkong and 185 times in Kowloon.
ADULTERATION OF FOOD AND DRUGS.
Thirty-seven samples of fresh milk were taken for analysis during the year, five of which were found to be adulterated. Four convictions were obtained.
A number of tins of preserved milk and jam and a large quantity of potatoes which had undergone decomposition were seized and condemned.
J. T. C. JOHNSON, F.R.C.S. (Ed.),
Principal Civil Medical Officer.
WILLIAM J. WOODMAN, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., (Eng.), L.S.A. (London),
Medical Officer of Health.