Block.
Hung Hom.
"A"
"B"
"C"
Name of Organization.
The Committee on Student Work
Projects
Oi Tak Welfare School (Sacred Heart
Chapel, Hung Hom)
Boys' and Girls' Clubs Association
Activities.
Boys' and Girls' Club
School
Boys' and Girls' Club
SUMMARY
Schools
Boys' and Girls' Clubs
Welfare Centres
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CHAPTER VIII
SQUATTER FIRES
The steady progress in the squatter clearance programme has greatly reduced the number and size of those squatter areas which were serious fire hazards with the result that squatter fires are now smaller and less frequent. During the course of the year 6,500 persons were made homeless in fifteen fires as against 14,000 persons in forty fires in the previous year. The number of persons affected by any one fire ranged from five to 2,117.
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As in previous years the usual emergency relief measures were taken after these fires. The first step in always the registration by the Social Welfare Office of the fire victims which is started immediately after the fire. Those registered are given free meals at emergency feeding centres established by the Social Welfare Office for periods of up to one month and often receive gifts of blankets and clothing from charitable organizations.
98. Eleven of the fifteen fires occurred on steep hillsides not required for permanent development and the fire victims were therefore allowed to rebuild their huts on or near the fire site, care being taken to see that the new huts were well spaced and that they had fireproof roofs in order to reduce the risk of another fire. The victims of the four other fires were allocated temporary sites on streets or pavements on which they built themselves small huts in which they will live until it becomes possible to offer them resettlement. One of the reasons why early resettlement cannot normally be offered to the victims of
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