six Chinese houses, Lockhart Road; new residential quarters at French Convent; new banks and offices (Marina House) 15 to 19 Queen's Road Central; Lower Peak Tram Station and flats, Garden Road; new Methodist Church, Hennessy Road; Central British School, off Argyle Street; extension to St. Mary's School, Austin Road; engineering workshop for China Light and Power Company, Tai Wan Road; block of four Chinese houses, Austin Road; block of six Chinese houses, Lai Chi Kok Road; block of ten Chinese houses, Lai Chi Kok Road; large Chinese residential Hotel, Nathan Road; six houses, European type flats, Nathan Road; four houses, European type flats, Peiho Street; fourteen Chinese houses, Shanghai Street; Public Dispensary, Yee Kuk Street.
36. Occupation permits were issued for 167 Chinese tenement houses, of these eighty-eight were erected in Kowloon and seventy-nine on the Island. Occupation permits issued for seventy-seven European type houses of these fifty were erected in Kowloon and twenty-seven in Hong Kong.
37. A comparative statement of the number and type of buildings in respect of which plans were deposited, is given in Table XIV. Table XVII shows by graph the number of domestic buildings completed annually since 1905.
38. The number of water flushed sanitary installations approved amounted to 2,078.
39. Twelve fires were reported, none resulting in loss of life, this immunity being traceable very largely to the protection afforded by buildings of reinforced concrete construction and to the improved form of staircase now called for.
40. Twelve collapses were reported, eight of which occurred as a result of the severe typhoon experienced in the month of August. There were three deaths and ten people were injured as the result of the typhoon collapses and eight persons were killed and seven injured when defective timbers caused the collapse of Nos. 2 to 8 Woo Sung Street. total casualties for the year numbered twelve killed and eighteen injured.
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41. Reclamation by private enterprise of the remaining area of approximate 18,000 square feet of Kowloon Marine Lot No. 97 was completed.
42. There was only one minor landslip reported which affected private property.
43. The Chinese Cemeteries in Hong Kong, Kowloon and New Kowloon were maintained in good order and provision was made for additional burial areas where required. The new area known as New Kowloon Cemetery No. 7, Customs Pass is being developed.