2.  Poverty: Shortage of food, water, electricity and
housing.
 Lived in slum conditions.
 Diseases: Overcrowding living conditions, poor
sanitation and lack of healthcare services.
 British tried to solve the problems but failed.

3. Here are rows and rows of back to back houses crammed
to the physical limit. Conditions are bad. Rooms contain
several families. Those who cannot share rooms live
underneath stairways or in cubicles which are in
complete darkness at all hours of the day and without
direct contact with sunlight, many houses have but one
water-tap fir the while house and all the inmates share
one bucket type latrine, the dirt and stench are appalling.
Source: Textbook pg 132. Adopted from Singapore Annual Report, 1947

4. Difficult
living Unhappy Strikes
conditions