AnnualReport-1912 — Page 267

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Purpose, at 92 Second Street and 2 Sheung Fung Lane, have been in considerable demand by the poor class of Chinese and the following figures show the total number of persons who have used these bath-houses during the year 1911 :-

Wanchai,
88,919
Pound Lane,
159,611
Second Street,
63,123
Sheung Fung Lane,
21,521
Total,
333,174

The numbers in 1910 were 359,456.

Separate baths, with an ample supply of hot water, are furnished at each of these bath-houses—that at Wanchai is for men only, and is largely used by the coal coolies engaged in coaling ships in the Harbour, and that at Second Street is also for men and boys only. The Pound Lane bath-house has separate buildings for men and for women and children, and the Sheung Fung Lane bath-house is for women and children only.

AMBULANCE SERVICE.

Ambulances can be procured not only at any hour of the night or day by telephoning (No. 363) to the Disinfecting Station, Taipingshan, but additional ones are stationed at the following places for use by the Police in all cases of emergency :--

The Bay View Police Station,
No. 1 Police Station.
The Recreation Ground, Happy Valley.
Eastern District Sanitary Matshed (near No. 2 Police Station).
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 Wa Hospital.
The entrance gate in Queen's Road West to the Government Civil Hospital.
The Western District Sanitary Office.
The Cattle Depôt, Kennedy Town.