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(6) Equipment. 



The most important addition to our equipment this season was ten port- 

 able fire-fighting pumps. These pumps are supplied with from 500 to 1,000 

 feet of hose, and have proved of inestimable value in fire-fighting. There were 

 also purchased 168 pairs of blankets, 29 canoes, 51 tents, 12 railway velocipedes, 

 2 railway motor cars, and 2 power boats, one 18 feet and the other 27 feet in 

 length. 



(7) Railway Inspection under B.R.jO. 



No change was made in the organization of the inspection of fire protective 

 appliances on railway locomotives, two inspectors devoting their whole time 

 to this work. 



LOCOMOTIVE INSPECTION, 1921. 



A total of 41 round-houses was visited, and 1,526 locomotive inspections 

 made, covering 672 locomotives, as against 1,288 inspections in 1920 on 659 

 locomotives. The above table shows that not only has the number of inspec- 

 tions increased each year, but the percentage of locomotives found defective 

 has steadily decreased from 32.1 per cent, in 1918 to 8.3 per cent, in 1921; and 

 in keeping with this, the percentage of fires definitely attributed to railways 

 has decreased from 46.5 per cent, in 1918 to 14.8 per cent, this year. 



The average cost per inspection in 1921 was $1.70, as compared with $1.86 

 in 1920, and $2.07 in 1919. 



II. Forest Investigation. 



Ottawa-Huron Survey. — This season the work of forest reconnaissance of 

 the Province was continued, and the country within the fire district south of 

 the French and Ottawa Rivers completed, the settled parts of Parry Sound 

 and Muskoka excepted. 



