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Accommodation

9.

More than half the refugees are in camps run by voluntary agencies on behalf of the UNHCR. The rest are in Government camps. The distribution at 26 September was:-

UNHCR Camps (Open)

Kai Tak North (HK Red Cross)

14,380

Sham Shui Po (HK Christian Service)

8,413

Jubilee (International Rescue Committee)

7,427

Kai Tak East (Caritas)

6,097

36,317

Government Camps (Open)

Tuen Mun Factories I & II (Housing Department) 13,790

Chi Ma Wan (Prisons Department)

Argyle Street 4 (Housing Department).

Cape Collinson (Prisons Department)

Government Controlled Centres

Quarantine Anchorages (Port Health and

Marine Police)

Government Dockyard (Immigration & Prisons)

Argyle Street 3 (Immigration & Prisons) Ma Tau Wei (Immigration & Prisons)

Other Prison Accommodation

6.598

1,520

1,060

22,968

Nil

3,226

1,398

612

1,434

6,670

Grand total in Hong Kong:

65,955

Cost to Hong Kong

10.

So far in 1979 the Government has incurred HK$66 million in direct expenditure on establishing and running refugee camps, feeding and transporting refugees. The actual cost would be very much higher if a detailed costing were to take account of the diversion of staff and resources from other purposes, the use of valuable land and other hidden costs.

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