Table I.
Fires during the year 1919.
No. of Buildings Destroyed.
No. Date. Time. Situation of Fire. Damage. Cause. Remarks. Wholly. Partly. 1 11. 1. 19. 2.20 a.m. No. 23. Wing Lok Street.... $9,200 1 Upsetting of a kerosine oil lamp. 2 27. 1. 19. 10.45 p.m. No. 41, Ha Wang Street, Sham Shui Po $4,000 1 Defective chimney flue. The adjoining house No. 39 was damaged by water. 24 7. 3. 19. 1.10 a.m. No. 67, Queen's Road West.....:. $7,500 A spark from a drying stove ignited some matting. Shark's fins were being dried there. 26.3. 19. 10 a.m. A matshed on the Kowloon Bay Reclamation, Kowloon City $1,000 Matshed catching fire through a spark from an engine on the temporary railway. 26.3. 19. 9.10 p.m.. No. 12, Gough Street $7,400 I Upsetting of a kerosine oil lamp. 6 9.6. 19. 11 p.m. No. 71, Wanchai Road $1,800 1 Unknown. 7 26.6. 19. 2 a.m. Nos. 121-125 Jervois Street..... $81,000 1 2 Unknown. $ 30. 6. 19. 6.30 p.m. No. 5, Shaukiwan Road $38,456 || 22 wooden huts. 9 16. 9. 19. 1.45 p.m. No. 10, Main Street, Aplichau $3,090 Upsetting of a kerosine oil lamp. Coolies may have been smoking there. 10 7.10.19.12.15 a.m. No. 362, Queen's Road Central $23,000 1 Unknown.K 30