Resettlement_Department_Annual_Report_1956-1957 — Page 63

APPENDIX I

Population of Resettlement Areas and Estates

MARINE DEPARTMENT LIBRARY

Resettlement Areas and Estates

Population on 1st April, 1956

Increase or

Population

on 31st March, 1957

decrease during the

year

A. Cottage Areas.

(One-storey cottages and huts)

Hong Kong Island.

Chai Wan..

Fu Tau Wat

11,179

1,421

11,999 1,423

Healthy Village Soo Kun Poo

647

501

2,217

2,345

Mount Davis

1,737

1,828

++1++

820

2

146

128

91

Kowloon.

Ngau Tau Kok

4,924

5,079

155

Chuk Yuen

7,926

8,099

+

173

Tung Tau...

5,663

5,757

94

Shek Shan

540

549

9

Homantin & King's Park

26,869

26,954

85

Tai Hang Sai

2,617

2,655

38

Lai Chi Kok

1,296

1,333

37

Tai Woh Ping

394

1,539

+ 1,145

Tai Woh Hau (Tsuen Wan)

2,963

3,643

--- 680

Totals for Cottage Areas

70,393

73,704

+ 3,311

B. Emergency Accommodation at

Shek Kip Mei (Kowloon).

(Two and three-storey buildings)

36,747

19,804

-16,943

C. Multi-storey Estates.

(Six and seven-storey buildings)

Kowloon.

Shek Kip Mei

44

17,999

36,958

+18,959

Li Cheng Uk

17,871

40,285

+22,414

Tai Hang Tung

32,787

38,015

+- 5,228

Hung Hom....

nil

4,735

+ 4,735

Totals for Multi-storey Estates...........

68,657

119,993

+51,336

Grand Totals

175,797

213,501

+37,704

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