APPENDIX 13
SCALE AND COST OF MATERIALS
FOR DRY RATIONS AND COOKED MEALS
DURING THE QUARTER ENDING 31ST MARCH, 1960
Item
(See paragraph 47)
Dry Rutions
(Happy Valley and
Yau Ma Tei Centres)
Meat
or Anchovy
or other Fresh Fish
or Canned Fish
or Fu Yu Vegetables
Quantity *
2 oz.
(or)
4. oz.
Cost
Cooked Meals (All Six Welfare Centres)
Quantity †
1 oz.
(or)
Cost
2 oz.
8 oz.
02.
**
10 or 12 oz.
$0.240
5 or 6 oz.
$0.120
Rice
Tea
16
02.
0.210
6
OZ.
0.079
1/12 oz.
0.006
1/24 oz.
0.003
Peanut Oil
1/2 oz.
0.026
1/4 oz.
0.013
Salt
Firewood
Diesoline
1 02.
0.003
▪,་
1/2 oz.
0.001
32
02.
0.173
J
10 gal. for 800
0.010
***
meals
Total cost per head
per day
* For two meals per day.
$0.658
$0.226
† For one meal per day.
APPENDIX 14
RELIEF SECTION
SUMMARY OF ALL KNOWN SUICIDE AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE CASES REPORTED DURING THE PERIOD 1ST APRIL, 1959 to 31ST MARCH, 1960
(See paragraph 48)
Cause of attempted suicide
(1) Deaths
Male
(2) Attempts
Female
Male
Female
Financial Difficulties
Domestic Strife
Sickness
Mental disturbance
Miscellaneous
23
9
128
93
4
21
69
228
17
16
51
34
***
**4
6
2
8
8
11
47
58
Total
Grand total
56
59
303
421
115
724
Male
Female
Percentage of all cases by sex ?
46
་་་
42.8%
57.2%
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