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(5) Equipment. 



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The major equipment added this year included : 74 canoes, 50 tents, 6 port- 

 able fire fighting units, 28 railway velocipedes, 1 railway motor car, 2 sixteen-foot 

 power boats, 150 single blankets. 



The usual fire posters were sent out. 



(6) Railway Inspection Under B. R. C. 



The same organization of the work of inspection of fire protective appliances 

 on locomotives was continued during 1920, two inspectors devoting all their time 

 to this. 



LOCOMOTIVE INSPECTION, 1920 



Railway 



Number Inspected 



Times 



Total 

 Number 

 Engines 



1920 



Total Number 

 Inspections 



1920 1919 1918 1917 



Inspections 

 showing 

 defects 



1920 



Percentage 

 Defective 



1920 1919 19181917 



323 

 178 

 132 

 17 

 9 

 6,-9 



111 



28 



11 



3 



12 



165 



16.829.9 

 7.9|15.5 

 4.811.0 



12.0 

 46.1 



13.0 

 16.7 



36.4 

 22.4 

 28.3 

 38.8 

 70.0 



12.821.832.1 



19.5 

 39.6 

 20.0 

 45.9 

 55 . 5 

 28.3 



Average cost per iaspection $1.86, as compared with $2.07 in 1919, and $2.59 in 1918. 



The above table shows that the work of inspecting locomotives has l)eeu 

 gradually expanded each year. This year 1,288 inspections were made as com- 

 pared with 615, 920 and 1,012 inspections in 1917, 1918, 1919, respectively. 

 These inspections embraced 659 locomotives as compared with 531 and 571 in 

 1918 and 1919. 



Furthermore, the cost of this work has been gradually reduced. Inspections 

 this year cost $1.86 per inspection, as compared with $2.59 in 1918 and $2.07 

 in 1919. 



It is satisfactory to find that the percentage of inspections revealing defects 

 lv^>: s'cadily fallen. This year but 12.8 per cent, were defective as compared 

 with 28.3, 32.1 and 21.8 per cent, in the three preceding years. In keeping with 

 these results it is to be noted that the percentage of all fires attributed to railways 

 ha=; decreased regularly each year from 49.5 per cent, in 1917 to 23.9 per cent. 

 this year. 



II. Forest Investigation. 



This season the first work was done in connection with a definite plan of 

 forest reconnaissance of the Province. 



This survey was of the usual nature of such work, detail being reduced in order 

 to give speed. Maps were prepared in the field delimiting cleared (farming) 



