12. How did the town plan work?
โค Jungles were cleared for plantations (gambier, rubber)
โค Different races to be segregated
โค Chinese were separated according to their dialect group
โค kapitan to be appointed to take charge of internal affairs of each
community
โค John Crawfurd undertook the town plan after Raf๏ฌes left in 1823
13. Singapore Town Plan, 1822
โค Chinatown
โค Commercial Square (centre of commerce activities)
โค Chulia Kampong
โค European Town (Big houses and tree-lined roads)
โค Kampong Bugis
14. Contributions of
โค Europeans
โค set up big trading companies and agency houses
โค sold goods through Chinese middlemen (Straits-born Chinese)
15. Contributions of
โค Chinese
โค unskilled labourers working at docks and construction sites
โค Straits Chinese (Middle-men/ coolie agents) provided support
services
16. Contributions of
โค Malay
โค provided basic necessities
โค gardeners and huntsmen
โค shipbuilders
17. Contributions of
โค Indians
โค labourers carrying cargoes at docks, clearing jungles
โค Chettiars provided banking and transportation services (till 1860s)
โค
18. Social Impacts
โค Situation of the immigrants:
โค Poor and diseased
โค abused as coolies in the slave trade
โค secret societies
โค opium smoking
19. Social Impacts
โค Tan Tock Seng, Syed Mohamed bin Alsagoff
โค philanthropy acts
โค Paupersโ Hospital on Pearlโs Hill, 1844
โค Thong Chai Medical Institution, 1867
20. Social Impacts
โค Christian missionaries from Europe and America set up schools
โค Chinese Girlsโ School (St. Margaretโs School)