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Calls are most numerous on Saturdays and fewest on Sundays. A new district station in Dorset-street
is being established, and this year some 110 calls in each month have been received.
(d) Belfast.
(Extract from report of Belfast Fire Brigade, year ending June, 1901.)
(Population—Census 1901, 349,180).—The work in connection with this branch of the service
is highly appreciated: 1,867 calls were received (showing a decrease of 8 from last year), occupying
918 hours 47 minutes (being a decrease of 72 hour3 25 minutes from last year), showing an average
of 29½ minutes per journey from the receipt of the call until the carriage returned to its station.
The distance traversed was 4,487½ miles, or an average of 2½ miles per single journey.
Carriages are worked from the headquarters and Whitla-street-street stations.
The number of calls received between the hours of 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. was 1,063, and between
the hours of 6 p.m. and 6 a.m. was 804.
On the 21st July special services were rendered with the ambulance waggons on the occasion
of the lamentable collision between two passenger steamers in Belfast Lough, for which the superintendent
received many expressions of gratitude from friends of the injured persons and from the
owners of the vessels, and the greatest compliment on the manner in which the cases were dealt
with was received by way of the following resolution passed at a meeting of the medical and
surgical staff of the Royal Hospital, to which institution the cases were removed—
Resolved—"That the staff express their appreciation of the skill and care with which
the members of the Belfast Fire Brigade attended to the sufferers from the recent steamboat
collision in Belfast Lough."
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