APPENDIX 17
RELIEF SECTION
SCALE AND AVERAGE COST OF RATION PER HEAD PER DAY ON 31ST MARCH, 1958
(A) Issued at Relief Centres: (See Paragraph 55)
Item
Dry Rationa (Happy Valley and Yau Ma Tei Centres)
Quantity
Cost
Cooked Meal
(All Six Welfare Centres)
Quantity
Cost
Meat
or
Anchovy or other
Fresh Fish or
Fu Yu
Vegetables
Rice
Tea
Peanut Oil Salt
Firewood
Diesoline
A
T
B Type Diet *
2 oz.
Total cost per head
per day
(B) Issued at North Point Camp :
Meat
Dried Fish
Peas, or
Fu Yu, or
Dried Bean Curd
Vegetables
Soya Beans
Sweet Potatoes
Item
***
+ **
Rice
Tea
Peanut Oil
Salt
Sugar
Firewood
Total cost
per
***
4 oz.
B Type Diet †
1 oz.
2 oz.
8 oz.
4 oz.
10 or 12 oz.
$0.310
5 or 6 oz.
$0.155
12
OZ.
0.228
6
02.
0.114
1/12 oz.
0.008
1/24 oz.
0.004
1/2 oz.
0.029
1/4 oz.
0.015
1
OZ.
0.003
1/12 oz.
0.001
32
02.
0.103
27 gal. per day
0.008
for 2,790 diets
$0.681
30.297
* For two meals per day. † For one meal per day.
***
Cooked meal
Cost
Quantity A Type Diet *
2 oz.
1
OZ.
2.02.
8 oz.
3 oz.
4
8 OZ.
24 OZ.
$0.670
10 oz.
0.190
1/8 oz.
0.012
2 02.
0.118
1/4 oz.
0.001
1/4 oz.
0.008
32 oz.
0.103
$1.102
head
per day
***
* For two meals per day.
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