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district had to be resurveyed and re-arranged. Old roads should be improved and new ones should be opened. This drastic action on such grand scale would definitely cause a general increase in taxes and a subsequent increase in rents, wages and the cost of living which the Government did not want to happen. We must realise though that the basic problem of the district - the high density of the population coupled with the poor housing conditions, remained unchanged and lingered on in the next century.
Table 1. Number of Unoccupied Houses in Sai Ying Pun
1881 - 1891
1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 No of unoccupied houses 55 170 110 97 38 32 24 27 25 40 3671
district had to be resurveyed and re-arranged. Old roads should be improved and new ones should be opened This drastic action on such grand scale would definitely cause a general increase in taxes and a subsequent increase in rents, wages and the cost of living which the Government did not want to happen. We must realise though that the basic problem of the district - the high density of the population coupled with the poor housing conditions, remained unchanged and lingered on in the next century.
Table 1. Number of Unoccupied Houses in Sai Ying Pun
1881 - 1891
1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891
No ol
unoccupied 55 170 110 97 38 32 24 27 25 40
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