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Photo: S. Y. Wong
The task of housing Hong Kong's grossly inflated post-war population is the most vexatious problem now confronting the Colony's government. At the beginning of 1954-despite persistent efforts at resettlement made during the previous three years- there were still approximately 250,000 people living in "squatter" communities. These squalid aggregations of ramshackle huts, sited higgledy-piggledly, built for the most part of wood and other highly combustible materials, present an ever-present menace to the well-being of the whole community. They are health hazards and above all, they are fire hazards.
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