Singapore.: University of Malaya Press.. 1960.. 439pp, 17 appendices, including the questionnaires used in the research, reference list, index, lacks plates, spine trifle discoloured, neat initials of a prior owner top right corner of upper cover, neat annotations in margins of two leaves, light foxing endpapers, a useful working copy. This report embodies the results of eighteen months' research undertaken as a Social Research Fellow in the University of Malaya, 1954-6; it was originally submitted, in a mimeographed version, to the Social Research Committe of the University in April 1956. The aims of the research were fourfold: 1) to make a sociological analysis of the living conditions of Chinese households in a densely populated urban area; 2)to define in sociological terms the group living in these conditions; 3) to measure the extent of neighbourliness amongst them; 4) to set up objective criteria and definitions for future studies in this field. .