Sessional_Paper_1908 — Page 231

Table I.

FIRES DURING THE YEAR 1907.

NO. OF BUILDINGS DESTROYED.

5.00

Unknown,

50,000.00

Sparks from the Engine Room,

1

3,000.00

Unknowu,

-334-

Nine persons were burnt to death,

No.

DATE.

TIME.

SITUATION OF FIRE.

DAMAGE.

CAUSE.

REMARKS.

Wholly. ↑ Partly.

January

2

1.30 a.m.

Wooden Huts at Ho Man Tin,.

wooden

huts 5

500.00

Unknown,

N

2

2.10

House No. 45, Kowloon City Road,.......

I

1

13,000.00

לי

Sparks from the kitchen stove,

1.30

}}

2.15 p.m.

A small matshed at Au Pui Leung,

Railway Depôt, Tai Kok Tsui,........

House No. 38, Ship Street,.

13

4.20

13

21

2.00 a.m.

19

7 February

1

8.40 p.m.

House No. 72, Jervois Street,. Matsheds at 11o Man Tin,

........

>>

matshed

1,500.00

2

2

A

5.00 a.m.

House No. 3, Tung Loi Lane,

1

4,000.00

>

9

9.40

On board S.S. Monmouthshire on the high seas.

3,000.00

77

"

10

5

8.20

Honse No, 21, Hing Lung Street,

1,200.00

Unknown,

"

17

II

11 8.45

House No. 2, Bullock Lane,

I

200.00

"

Spontaneous Combustion,

Sparks from the 1st floor cook-house falling down and igniting rattan on the ground floor,

3

}}

77

12

17

4.00 p.m.

Matsheds used as a Hospital on the Rail- matsheds | way Works, Sha Tin,

2

1,000,00

Sparks from cook-house

falling on the roof of a matshed,

Carried forward, .............

77,405.00