Table I.
Fires during the Year 1910,
No.
Date.
Time.
Situation of Fire.
No. of Buildings Destroyed.
Damage.
Cause.
Wholly.
Partly.
1
Jan. 13th
12.35 a.m.
House No. 1, Connaught Road West.
1
$13,000
Unknown.
2
25th
"
331, Shanghai Street, Yaumati,
$3,000
Overheating of medicinal roots placed over a charcoal fire to dry.
3
28th
1.00 a.m.
52, Reclamation Street, Yaumati,..
1
$14,000
Careless use of joss sticks and lamp.
4
Feb. 14th
1.39 a.m.
18, Bowrington Road West,...
$63
Unknown.
5
21st
12.20 a.m.
546, Sheungshui,
1
$100
$50
$300
*
Lighted candles setting fire to joss papers stored close to the shrine.
6
Mar, 6th
$.30 p.m.
A stack of grass at Aberdeen,
$4,000
Unknown.
7
19th
>
Shaukiwan,
$4,645
| Unknown.
8
25th
9.00 p.m.
Unoccupied matshed at Cheungchow,
1 matshed.
-2 M
9
23rd
11.30 p.m.
Honse No. 248, Shanghai Street, Yaumati,...
1
10
Apr. 6th
4.10 a.m.
A matshed outside Un Long Market,
1 matshed.
4 houses.
11
"
9.30 p.m.
Kennedy Town Plague Hospital,
2
$300
Overheating of a bean curd drying stove.
12
13th June
1.00 a.m.
House No. 39, Shanghai Street. Yaumati,.
1
$40
Unknown,
13
11th
2.15 a.m.
Matshed at Chun Lung, Shankiwan,
1 matshed.
1
Carelessness with a lighted match,
14
12th
3.45 p.m.
House No. 7, U Shek Kok, Sha Tau Kok,
1
$105
Some bundles of grass accidentally caught fire.
15
17th
2.30 p.m.
A small matshed on the Kosloon-Canton Railway, Tai Po...
1 matshed.
$650
Upsetting of a kerosine lamp.
16
Aug. 8th
2.20 a.m.
128, Shanghai Street, Yaumati,
1
$5,000
Unknown.
17
15th
3.40 a.m.
14
18
Sept. 4th
2.45 a.m.
4, Sai On Lane, West Point,
$56,000
Careless use of naked oil lamps while taking in bunker coal.
19
14th
1.50 a.m.
100, Jervois Street,
$17,000
S.S. Kam Chon, Victoria Harbour,..
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Table I.
Fires during the Year 1910,
No.
Date.
Time.
Situation of Fire.
No. of Buildings Destroyed.
Damage.
Wholly. Partly.
Cause.
$13,000! Unknown.
3,000
3,000 Overheating of medicinal roots placed over
a charcoal fire to dry.
14,000 Careless use of joss sticks and lamp.
63 Unknown.
100 50 300
*
4,000 Lighted candles setting fire to joss papers.
stored close to the shrine.
4,645 | Unknown.
-2 M
1
Jan. 13th | 12.35 a.m. House No. 1, Connaught Road West.
1
25th
"
3
28th
1.00 a.m. 1.39 K.m.
*
"
331, Shanghai Street, Yaumati,...... 52, Reclamation Street, Yaumati,..
Feb. 14th
5
21st
12.20 a.m. Midnight.
51
18, Bowrington Road West,... 546, Sheungshui,
1
11
.
6 Mar, 6th
$.30 p.m.
A stack of grass at Aberdeen,
7
19th
>>
9.00 p.m.
Shaukiwan,
་་
11
8
9
25th
11
23rd 11.30 p.m. 4.10 a.m.
Unoccupied matshed at Cheungchow,
I matshed.
Honse No. 248, Shanghai Street, Yaumati,...
10 | Apr. 6th
11
9.30 p.m.
A matshed outside Un Long Market,
1 matsbed.
4 houses.
"
12
13th June 11th
1.00 a.m.
Kennedy Town Plague Hospital,
2.15 a.m.
13
14
11th 12th
3.45 p.m.
House No. 39, Shanghai Street. Yaumati,. Matshed at Chun Lung, Shankiwan,
2
1
!
300
:
1 matshed.
1
2.30 p.m.
15
17th
**
3.00 p.m.
House No.
A small matshed on the Kosloon-Canton
Railway, Tai Po......
7, U Shek Kok, Sha Tau Kok,
1 matshed.
I
*16 Aug. Sth
2.20 a.m.
19
128, Shanghai Street, Yaumati,
1
17
15th
3.40 a.m.
14
18 Sept. 4th
19
14th
15
2.45 a.. 1.50 a.m.
56,000
4, Sai On Lane, West Point, 100, Jervois Street,
S.S. Kam Chon, Victoria Harbour,..
* Two men were charged for arson and discharged at the Criminal Sessions.
2,000 Overheating of a bean curd drying stove.
40 Unknown,
Carelessness with a lighted match,
105 Some bundles of grass accidentally caught
fire.
650 Upsetting of a kerosine lamp.
5,000 Unknown.
14
17,000 Careless use of naked oil lamps while
taking in bunker coal.
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