Social_Welfare_Annual_Report_1959-1960 — Page 55

APPENDIX 17

LARGE SCALE RELIEF FOOD DISTRIBUTION BY INTERNATIONAL AGENCIES *

1ST APRIL, 1959 to 31st March, 1960

(See paragraph 50)

Organization

Amount (Short Tons)

Estimated No. of Persons

Assisted

Catholic Relief Services ...

11,490.22

450,000

Church World Service

***

4,240.13 †

217,830

Co-operation for American Relief to Everywhere Inc.

(C.A.R.E.)

709.31

10,000

Lutheran World Federation

6,587.73

79,525

Total

23,027.39

757,355

* Main commodities distributed are rice, flour, cornmeal, milk powder and pork.

+ Excluding 1,000,000 multi-Vitamin pills.

‡ Excluding 570,002 locally purchased food packages for distribution to an estimated 100,000 people.

58 fires

Events

***

APPENDIX 18

EMERGENCY RELIEF

1959/1960

(See paragraph 53)

Nature of Damage

or Destruction

1,275 huts

17 houses

Casualties

Families

Victims

11 dead

3,742

18,148

12 injured

2 flats

1 cubicle

19 shipwrecks

6 landslides

4 floods

15 junks

5 missing

19

135

2 boats

4 injured

1 sampan 56 buts

1 dead

99

639

876 huts

1 injured 24 dead

3,444

18,688

56 houses

18 missing

23 injured

14 Evacuations from

27 houses

3 injured

408

1,933

dangerous buildings

22 huts

6 collapses

13 huts

15

77

Total 107

2,242 huts

36 dead

7,727

39,620

100 houses

43 injured

2 flats

23 missing

1 cubicle

15 junks

2 boats

1 sampan

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