APPENDIX 17
LARGE SCALE RELIEF FOOD DISTRIBUTION BY INTERNATIONAL AGENCIES *
1ST APRIL, 1959 to 31st March, 1960
(See paragraph 50)
Organization
Amount (Short Tons)
Estimated No. of Persons
Assisted
Catholic Relief Services ...
11,490.22
450,000
Church World Service
***
4,240.13 †
217,830
Co-operation for American Relief to Everywhere Inc.
(C.A.R.E.)
709.31
10,000
Lutheran World Federation
6,587.73
79,525
Total
23,027.39
757,355
* Main commodities distributed are rice, flour, cornmeal, milk powder and pork.
+ Excluding 1,000,000 multi-Vitamin pills.
‡ Excluding 570,002 locally purchased food packages for distribution to an estimated 100,000 people.
58 fires
Events
***
APPENDIX 18
EMERGENCY RELIEF
1959/1960
(See paragraph 53)
Nature of Damage
or Destruction
1,275 huts
17 houses
Casualties
Families
Victims
11 dead
3,742
18,148
12 injured
2 flats
1 cubicle
19 shipwrecks
6 landslides
4 floods
15 junks
5 missing
19
135
2 boats
4 injured
1 sampan 56 buts
1 dead
99
639
876 huts
1 injured 24 dead
3,444
18,688
56 houses
18 missing
23 injured
14 Evacuations from
27 houses
3 injured
408
1,933
dangerous buildings
22 huts
6 collapses
13 huts
15
77
Total 107
2,242 huts
36 dead
7,727
39,620
100 houses
43 injured
2 flats
23 missing
1 cubicle
15 junks
2 boats
1 sampan
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