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41 fires

APPENDIX XIV

RELIEF SECTION

Emergency Relief

Period 1st April, 1955 to 31st March, 1956

Events

Damage

Casualties

Family

People

Diets Issued

1,878 huts &

7 dead

5,248

21,533

houses

Free Meals:- 1,013,358

4 house collapses

45 junks

18 injured

2 storms

2 ship-wrecks

2 floods

1 emergency clearance

1 landside

3 sampans

Dry Rations:-

68,976

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