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Events

APPENDIX 21

RELIEF SECTION

EMERGENCY RELIEF

(period 1st April, 1957 to 31st March, 1958)

(See Paragraph 63)

Damage

Casualties

Families

Individual Victims

736 huts

6 dead

2,334

10,700

17 houses

8 injured

1 tenement flat

1 house collapse

1 hut

11 landslides

25

103

21 huts

3 dead

44

192

5 houses

1 injured

4 shipwrecks

3 fishing boats

6 dead

1

1 trawler

01

5

35

33 floods

473 huts

1 dead

2,369

14,243

3 injured

1 typhoon

1,771 huts

1 injured

2,091

10,689

3 houses

Total 87

3,002 huts

16 dead

6,868

35,962

25 houses

13 injured

1 tenement flat

3 fishing boats

1 trawler

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