Hardly a week passes now without a fire in one or other of the refugee camps or temporary matchwood structures which have sprung up like mushrooms in the Western (Extra-Settlement) District. The general lack of control has encouraged the erection of these flimsy shelters and the absence of proper precautions against fire increases a hazard which the Municipal ratepayers in this District have suffered from for the past year. The pictures show scenes of the aftermath of the fire which wiped out a straw-hut Settlement off Jessfield Road during the night of January 28. Over a hundred huts went up in flames and hundreds of the ever hungry were rendered homeless.
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