surveyed areas at the end of March, 1963, there were 585,000 squatters, of whom 75,000 were on tenement rooftops.
7. The Squatter Control Division is divided into four sections on a geographical basis. The Tsuen Wan Section began operations in July, 1961, when the New Territories Administration handed over responsi- bility for Squatter Control in and around the New Territories' largest township to this Department. Each section is under the control of an Assistant Resettlement Officer, whose duty it is to supervise the Area Officers under his charge. The Resettlement Officer, Squatter Control, at Headquarters is responsible for the administration and operations of the whole division.
(b) The Resiting of Homeless Squatters
8. In addition to the prevention of new illegal structures, the officers of this Division have a number of other duties, of which the most im- portant is the resiting of the victims of fires in Squatter Areas. During the year there were two fairly large squatter fires at Sun Wai Village and Fuk Wah Village, Sham Shui Po, where 1,303 and 4,786 squatters were made homeless respectively.
9. Typhoon 'Wanda' completely destroyed 725 huts in urban squat- ter areas, rendering 5,130 persons homeless, and partly damaged 3,038 huts, affecting 24,865 persons. In Tsuen Wan District, 136 huts were totally destroyed, making 1,055 persons homeless and 607 occupied by 3,264 persons were damaged. Serious damage was also done to the house-boats moored at various shelters in Hong Kong and Kowloon. A total of 339 families comprising 2,231 persons from 331 house-boats were thus rendered homeless.
10. The victims of most of these disasters were allocated temporary sites on or near the sites they had previously occupied. Some of the victims who were occupying an area which was already due for clear- ance were given immediate resettlement in rooms which had already been reserved for them. Families who lost their homes in these disasters and were required to rebuild their huts were given money from the Community Typhoon Relief Fund, in addition to the usual relief pro- vided by the Social Welfare Department and voluntary agencies.
11. The Division has a number of temporary resite areas, where sites are allocated to rooftop dwellers when the tenement itself is destroyed or demolished for redevelopment, or to tenants of tenements which are permanently condemned as unsafe for occupation. Tenants
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