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AMBULANCE SERVICE.
A complete ainbulance service has been established throughout the City, and ambul- ances can now be procured not only at any hour of the night or day by telephoning (No. 363) to the Disinfecting Station, Taipingshan, but additional ones have been 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 Office.
The Sailors' and Soldiers' Home, Arsenal 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.
Outside the City limits ambulances have also been stationed at the Pokfulam Police Station, at Aberdeen, Shaukiwan and Stanley Police Stations, at the Water Police Station at Tsim- sha-tsui and at the Kowloon-Canton Railway camps. The Kowloon Disinfecting Station (Telephone No. 44 K.) also serves Kowloon, in the same manner that the City is served by the Taipingshan Disinfecting Station.
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These are all hand ambulances, on bicycle or light wooden wheels, with rubber tyres, and of the St. John Ambulance pattern. Those stationed in the City are in the charge of the various Plague Inspectors, whose duty it is to see that they are kept clean and efficient, and that they are disinfected after use. At the Sanitary Stations coolies are always available for the conveyance of these ambulances, but at the other stations the Police obtain volunteers or engage street coolies for this purpose, and notify the Sanitary Department that the ambulance has been use 1, so that it may be cleansed at once.
OVERCROWDING.
The following Fable shows the number of visits paid during the year and the number of houses found overcrowded :-
Health District.
No. of night visits paid.
No of floors found overcrowded.
58
16
136
52
Nil
Nil
53
18
City of
24
11
46
25
Victoria.
69
25
41
15
9
157
57
10
25
15
11
118
32
Kowloon.
12
175
26
902
292
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