A total of 1,831,918 people visited Jessfield Park during 1939, according to the annual report for that year of the Superintendent of Parks and Open Spaces. This total showed an Increase of 388,600 over the figures for 1938. An increase of 41,228 visitors to Kiaochow Park as compared with 1938 was also recorded. On the other hand there was a decrease of 41,228 in the return of visitors to the Bund Gardens.
Át Kiaochow Park during the past year 5,302 persons indulged in football games and 1496 in hockey. There were 9,407 tennis enthusiasts, Who used the courts at the park, and 632 persons played baseball. The maximum daily attendances at Jessfield Park, Kiaochow Park and the Bund Gardens were 36,573 {April 30), 5,295 (April 4) and 7,151 (July 11) respectively. On fifty days during the year the attendance at Jessfield Park exceeded 8,000.
The total number of visitors to these three parks, together with the Soochow, Nanyang Children's Gardens and Majestic Playing Centre, was 2602341. At the Jessfield Park Zoological Garden several deaths of birds and animals from natural causes occurred, the chief losses being a Gibbon monkey. a kangaroo ind an albino peafowl.
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