Annual report / Municipality of Singapore, Health Department.
- Singapore. Municipality Health Department.
- Date:
- [1957]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Annual report / Municipality of Singapore, Health Department. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![As well as preparing the revised Master Plan, other work of the Master Plan Team in 1957 which will have an effect on the health of the people includes: — Planning Surveys.—Surveys were undertaken during 1957 of the^ new town sites at Thomson Road and Bulim and the Changi/Bedokr Additional Town Map area. Further surveys were undertaken to help! in the determination of policy on the location of flats and to determine] the location and extent of attap development throughout the City. Census.—During 1957, census was taken over the whole island. The Master Plan Team is working in close co-operation with the Statistics Department of the Government and the census figures will provide extremely valuable information on which to base housing estimates and programmes for redevelopment and dispersal. Queenstown.—Development at Queenstown under the direction of the Singapore Improvement Trust Architects Department continued in accordance with the proposals of the Master Plan. Under these pro¬ posals there are carefully considered provisions for schools, clinics, health services and community buildings generally. Preparation of further Town Maps.—Continued progress has been made on the preparation of plans for new towns and Additional Town Map areas. The draft plans for Woodlands New Town have reached the advanced stage and those for Bulim and Thomson Road New Towns are now under way, following the completion of the surveys mentioned. Consultation Committees, etc.—The Master Plan Team has been consulted by the Planning Department on some 1,200 development proposals during 1957. The Master Plan Team is represented on the Singapore Improvement Trust Planning Committee, on the Planning Co-ordination Committee and the Highways Co-ordination Committee and is able through these Committees to advise on the provision of various community facilities in the building development. Apart from the work of the Master Plan Team, the Replanning Division of the Planning Department, which is concerned with the preparation of detailed plans for the redevelopment of precincts in the Central Area which are at present overcrowded or in a poor state of repair was separately established. The proposals of this Division carry to a more detailed stage those included in the Master Plan (relating to Central Area). Of the many external Committees on which the Health Officer serves as a member, the Planning Committee of the S.ngapore Improvement Trust is perhaps the most useful. LEGISLATION The Local Government Ordinance, 1957 (No. 24 of 1957) was passed at a Meeting of the Legislative Assembly held on the 30th day of July, 1957, and assented to by His Excellency the Governor on 9th August, 1957. The sections affecting the City Health Department came into force on the 21st December, 1957, except Section 320 (1), which would cause the Municipal Ordinance to be repealed. This section has not yet come into force and until it does this department will continue to operate under both the Municipal Ordinance and the Local Government Ordinance, 1957.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31753279_0014.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
