Whenever possible, cooked meals are issued to refugees entitled to rations. These meals are on a scale similar to meals provided by the Social Welfare Department in emergencies to homeless victims of fires, typhoons etc. However, because this diet is not designed to cater for people for long periods, weekly supplements are issued to refugees which brings the diet up to a level which can sustain people without alterna- tive sources of food for long periods. Where it is not possible to provide hot meals on a regular basis, such as to refugees detained on their boats in the quarantine anchorage, or those in Tuen Mun camp where distance from the SWD Kitchen makes the twice daily supply of hot meals difficult, dry rations are issued, again to a scale nearly equating to emergency relief supplies.
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The proportion of refugees in Government-run open camps receiving rations varies from 84% in Argyle Street No 4 camp where the power supply is insufficient to allow refugees to cook themselves (this situation will be rectified before the end of October) to nil at the Cape Collinson Camp where no one is in need of rations. At the largest open camp, Tuen Mun No 1, only 5% of 6,000 receive rations.
Monitory System
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A monitory system has been established by the Refugee Division, Security Branch in cooperation with UNHCR, camp managements and Government Departments to ensure that so far as practical adequate standards of sanitation, drainage public health supervision and medical care and attention are achieved.
7th November 1979
(CR 1/3/4821/79)
G.S. 166
CONFIDENTIAL
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