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NOTES FOR SUPPLEMENTARIES
LIVING CONDITIONS OF THE BOAT PEOPLE
1. The Hong Kong Government fully accept that the boat people
are living in sub-standard conditions. But so are many people
on land. The Government are building new houses as fast as
they can: in the meantime they cannot accept that boat dwellers
have a right to jump the queue, except for those whose boats are
found to be in a dangerous condition.
DROWNINGS
2.
available.
The
Separate statistics of drownings among boat people are not
Inevitably there have been a few accidents.
practice of tethering small children to prevent them falling
overboard is a sensible precaution that has been common among
boat dwellers for generations.
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