Redevelopment of Tai Ping Shan District

This is a photograph of the Tai Ping Shan District taken from Ladder Street looking west. The Tung Wah Hospital in Po Yan Street is in the distant. After the bubonic plague of 1894, the government was determined to improve the living conditions of Chinese people. Buildings in the Tai Ping Shan District were demolished and the area was redeveloped. The new buildings had balconies for better ventilation.