APPENDIX XIII
RELIEF SECTION
Scale and Cost of Ration Per Head Per Day on 31st March, 1957
(See Paragraphs 100 - 104)
Dry Ration
(Happy Valley Centre and
Yaumati Centre)
Welfare Centres
Meat, Fish and
2 Nos. B Type
Vegetables....
Rice
diet (14 oz.)
$0.30
12 oz.
0.208
B Type (7 oz.)
6 oz.
$0.15
0.104
Tea
1/12 oz.
0.008
1/24 oz.
0.004
Peanut Oil
1/2 oz.
0.032
1/4 oz.
0.016
Salt
1 oz.
0.003
1/12 oz.
0.001
Fire-wood
32 oz.
0.104
Diesoline
14 gal. per day
0.008
for 1,418 diets
Cost of one dry
ration...
Cost per meal
$0.66
per person..
$0.28
North Point Camp
Morrison Hill Relief Camp
Meat, Fish and
2 Nos. B Type
Vegetables.
A Type (19 oz.)
$0.68
diet (14 oz.)
$0.30
Rice
15 oz.
0.26
12 oz.
0.208
Tea
Peanut Oil Salt
1/8 oz.
1 oz.
0.01
1/12 oz.
0.008
0.06
1/2 oz.
0.032
Fire-wood
1/4 oz.
32 oz.
0.001
1/6 oz.
0.001
0.104
Diesoline
3.5 gal. per day
0.011
for 264 diets
Cost per head
per day
Cost per head
$1.12
per day.
$0.56
Remand Home
Shanghai Street Children's Centre
Meat, Fish and
Vegetables..
A Type (19 oz.)
$0.68
A Type (19 oz.)
$0.68
Rice
17 oz.
0.295
15 oz.
0.26
Tea
Peanut Oil
Salt
1/8 oz.
1 oz.
1/4 oz.
0.01
0.06
1 02.
0.06
0.001
1/4 oz.
0.001
Sugar
1 oz.
0.02
1 oz.
0.02
Kerosene
11 gal. per day
0.064
for 30 diets
Cost per head
Cost
per
head
per day...........
$1.13
per day..........
$1.02
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