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Damage

TABLE III.

Requisitioning

Totals

Permanent Temporary Temporary

ESTIMATE OF NUMBER OF CIVILIANS DISPLACED BY DAMAGE AND REQUISITIONING,

CIVILIAN DWELLINGS (IN UNITS)

CIVILIANS DISPLACED DUE TO

TYPE OF DWELLING

Destroyed

Damaged

Occupied by Services

Totals

20

(Signed) L. W. AMPS,

Lt.-Col. R.E.

S.O. I. (C.A.) Works,

Buildings & Lands.

1. European Class I

107

812

382

1,301

535

3,560

1,910

6,005

2. European Class II

196

958

58

1,212

784

2,156

232

3,172

3. Chinese Class I

83

201

284

498

1,050

1,548

4. Chinese Class II

66

352

418

396

1,806

2,202

5. Tenement Houses

8,217

7,998

39

16,254

82,170

64,750

1,560

148,480

N.B. The figures for "damaged dwellings given above shew slight differences from those in Table II, due to minor re-adjustments between the classes made by sub- sequent site surveys. The differences are insignificant.

Hong Kong, 18th February, 1946.