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APPENDIX 18

(See paragraph 63)

RELIEF SECTION

EMERGENCY RELIEF

PERIOD: 1ST APRIL, 1961 to 31st March, 1962

Events

Nature of Damage

or Destruction

Casualties

Families

Individual Victims

1 cockloft

9 flats

64 injured

37 killed

1,407

6,470

16 houses

363 huts

4 stone houses

4 house collapses...

1 flat

4 injured

57

279

1 house

5 huts

10 landslides

25 huts

1 injured

2 killed

63

358

12 shipwrecks

3 boats

11 junks

1 injured

16

81

2 typhoons

1 house

4 injured

96 huts

7 killed

270

2.759

6 junks

11 sampans

Total 69

3 boats

1 cockloft

74 injured

10 flats

18 houses

9.947

489 huts

46 killed

1,813

17 junks

11 sampans

4 stone houses

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