TABLE A OF APPENDIX I

Population in Resettlement Areas and Estates

Population

Resettlement Areas and Estates

Population on 1st April, 1955

on 31st March, 1956

Increase or decrease during the

year

A. Cottage Areas.

(one-storey cottages and huts)

Hong Kong Island

Chai Wan.....

10,675

11,179

Fu Tau Wat

Healthy Village Soo Kun Poo Mount Davis

Kowloon

Ngau Tau Kok Chuk Yuen

Tung Tau

Shek Shan

Homantin & King's Park

1,381

1,421

848 !

647

1,649

2,217

+1+1

1,682

1,737

504

40

201

568

55

2,314 !

4,924

+ 2,610

+

3,394

7,926

+ 4,532

5,372

5,663

+

291

536

540

+

4

25,542

26,869

+

1,327

Tai Hang Sai

2,465

2,617

152

Lai Chi Kok

1,224

1,296

72

Tai Woh Ping

Nil

394

394

Tai Wo Hau (Tsuen Wan)..

1,142

2,963

→ 1,821

Totals for cottage areas.

58,224

70,393 !

+12,169

B. Emergency Accommodation at

Shek Kip Mei (Kowloon).

(two and three-storey buildings)

36,300

36,747

+447

C. Multi-storey Estates.

(six and seven-storey buildings)

Kowloon

Shek Kip Mei

17,175

17,999

+

Li Cheng Uk

Nil

17,871

Tai Hang Tung

13,123

32,787

824 +17,871 +19,664

Totals for Multi-storey Estates....

30,298

68,657

| 38,359

Grand Totals

124,822

175,797

+50,975

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