SINGAPORE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WELFARE. A Social Survey of Singapore. A Preliminary Stury of Some Aspects of Social Conditions in the Municipal Area of Singapore. Singapore, printed by G. H. Kiat & Co. Ltd., December, 1947.
8vo. Original cloth-backed boards, lettered and decorated in red; pp. [4], viii, 165, [2, errata], folding map, printed in red and black, one folding table, tables in the text; light rubbing to binding, apart from very light toning internally, a very clean and fresh copy.
Very rare first edition of this thorough assessment of Singaporean society, strata, migration, ethnic backgrounds and social mobility after the Japanese occcupation.
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