PDF《TIONG BAHRU HERITAGE TRAIL》

1 February

1926 a five-year loan of $250,000 at 2% interest to theMunicipalCommissionersforthepurchase and improvement of land situated near the Lunatic Asylum and Hospital buildings . This land around Tiong Bahru Road, as described by the Municipal Commissioners in 1926, was an area partly swampy, partly disused graveyard and hills, which is crowded with squatters'

huts withhardlyanypermanentdwellings.Thisarea is mosquito breeding, and the squatters'

huts are generally most insanitary and undesirable near a hospital. TIONG BAHRU BEFORE ITS T........