All the routine services of the Public "Works Department, cerned with cleanliness in streets, are working satisfactorily. Amon 1,100 coolies, refugees from the Eastern and' Northern districts, 800 fre being regularly employed ' and 300 are available for emergency] Work. Accommodation as been provided for all of them. Matsheds ave also been erected on the Amoy Roud Gaol site for other refugees, with the Salvation Army supervising the camp. Altogether" there are roughly 60 camps holding approximately $0,000 people. Medical service provided.
The hole caused by the bomb in Nanking Road has been fled up and the pavement re-instated. Nanking Road is now opened to bus service. Race Course Road and Avenue Edward VII have also received attention and there Is no impediment to rae in that quarter.
As regards the general work of protecting the Settlement, arrangements have been made for the supply of 40,000 sandbags and these have been delivered at the rate of 5,000 bags a day for some days past. Yesterday, five sandbag poste were constructed on the Bund. at the ends of Avenue Edward VII, Foochow Road, Hankow Road, Nan king Road and at the Public Garden. In this, and in many other. ways boundaries are being safeguarded and
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