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poses and equipment of fire departments, such advice necessitating 

 making complete surveys of several municipalities. 

 Fire Prevention Plainly as the result of our efforts, fire prevention 

 Leagues leagues have been organized in Ontario and British 



Established Columbia. In addition, an advisory committee has 



been appointed by the Dominion Superintendent of Insurance to 

 inaugurate education of the public and to advise the government 

 respecting fire prevention legislation, movements have been started 

 to have fire marshal acts enacted in the provinces of Quebec, Nova 

 Scotia and New Brunswick, the fire insurance companies operating 

 in Canada are attempting to revise the present insurance agency 

 system in the interests of fire prevention, local authorities are increas- 

 ingly adopting the recommendation of the Commission with respect 

 to the periodical inspection of buildings, and there is every reason 

 to believe that, eventually, the entire programme outlined by the 

 Commission in its report will receive legislative endorsation. 



The r«cord of fire losses in Canada for 1918 emphasizes 

 the necessity of drastic steps being taken to bring 

 abou a change in the public attitude towards fire 

 waste. During the ». ar the total value of property destroyed by 

 fire amounted to no less than S33,600,000, and exceeded by over 35 

 per cent the loss of the previous year. If the amount of money spent 

 on fire protection and insurance be added to the direct fire loss the 

 total reaches over $65,000,000. In other words, if the loss continued 

 at the same rate for nine years, it would aggregate an amount that 

 would equal the entire subscription to the last Victory Loan. 

 The record of fire losses for 1918, classified according to the amount^ 

 of loss involved in each fire, is given herewith. 



Excessive 

 Fire Losses 



Fires over 

 $100,000 



No. 



Loss 



Fires from $10,000 

 to $100,000 



No. 



Loss 



Fires less than 

 $10,000 



No. 



Loss 



January. . . 

 February. . 



March 



April 



May 



June 



July 



August. . . . 

 September. 

 October. . . 

 November. 

 December. 



$ 1,057,000 

 1,467,000 

 575,000 

 1,500,000 

 1,652,000 

 1,277,000 

 960,000 

 812,000 

 250,000 

 3,650,000 

 300,000 

 1,150,000 



34 

 15 

 15 

 21 

 19 

 15 

 19 

 22 

 15 

 9 

 14 

 16 



873,000 

 319,000 

 668,000 



1,120,000 

 906,000 

 833,000 

 841,000 



1,183,000 

 419,000 

 646,000 

 402,000 

 376,000 



1,499 

 1,423 

 1,264 

 1,802 

 1,528 

 1,723 

 1,246 

 1,638 

 1,107 

 984 

 1,518 

 1,347 



535,000 



602,000 



537,000 



723,000 



1,177,000 



1,006,000 



1,395,000 



971,000 



667,000 



1,121,000 



965,000 



588,000 



Total 62 $14,650,000 214 $8,586,000 



17,079 $ 10.387,000 



