Table I,-Continued.
Fires during the year 1920.
No. Date. Time. Situation of Fire. No. of Buildings Destroyed. Damage. Cause. Remarks. Wholly. Partly. $ 14 21. 2. 20. 3.00 hrs. (No. 54A, Main Street, Aberdeen and 29 other buildings 30 36,060 Unknown. 15 26. 2. 20. 2.45 No. 105, Shanghai Street 17 16 7. 4. 20. 2.00 No. 291, Queen's Road Central 1 1,700 10,700 Unknown. Kerosine lamp upset by a cat. 17 13. 4. 20. 19.30 No. 9, Peking Road... 5,800 Upsetting of a kerosine lamp. 18 29.4. 20. 2.30 No. 56, Connaught Road West ................... 1 6,200 19 7. 5. 20. 3.45 S.S. Ixion Overheating of a drying stove. Unknown. 20 25. 5. 20. 16.15 No. 7, St. Stephen's Lane 21 3. 6. 20. 4.25 No. 50, Wing Lok Street 17 22 4. 6. 20. 9.00 S.S. Karmala " 23 19. 6. 20. 16.00 5,000 Explosion of methylated spirits. 24 22. 6. 20. 23.45 Unnumbered houses at Tong Fuk, Cheung Chau Upsetting of a kerosine lamp. 25 22. 7. 20. 23.59 Nos. 46 & 48, Staunton Street ......... 17 The fusing of an electric cable. No. 118, Queen's Road West 1,000 Overheating of medicine on a drying kiln. 6,300 Arson. 1,000 Unknown. One Chinese female (suffering from burn) sent to hospital. One Chinese female and one female child burnt to death.- K 31