Social_Welfare_Annual_Report_1958-1959 — Page 52

APPENDIX 19

EMERGENCY RELIEF

PERIOD IST APRIL, 1958 TO 31ST MARCH, 1959

(See paragraph 77)

Events

Damage

Casualties

Families

Persons

38 fires

7 houses

475 huts

12 dead

24 injured

1,380

6,434

7 house collapses...

3 houses

1 dead

55

284

5 huts

2 injured

4 landslides

7 huts

15

38

31 shipwrecks

26 junks

12 dead

48

274

5 sampans

15 missing

4 Demolitions

7 houses

1 stone hut

1 explosion

I hut

Total 85

90

297

6 injured

2

6

488 huts

17 houses

25 dead

32 injured

1,590

7,333

1 stone hut

15 missing

26 junks

5 sampans

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