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The government cracked down on secret societies, prostitution and other illegal activities, with TIME magazine later reporting that a full week passed without “kidnapping, extortion or gangland rumble(s)” for the first time. Lee also spearheaded several ‘mobilisation campaigns’ to clean the city, introduced air-conditioning to government offices, and slashed the salaries of civil servants. With strong government support, the HDB under chairman Lim Kim San completed more flats in three years than its predecessor did in thirty-two. In February 1960, the Housing and Development Board (HDB) superseded the Singapore Improvement Trust (SIT) and assumed responsibility of public housing. The last act provoked anger from the sector, which Lee justified as necessary to balance the budget.
In a column in the Sunday Times on 6 November 2011, Lee’s daughter, Lee Wei Ling, revealed that her father suffered from peripheral neuropathy. In the column, she recounted how she first noticed her father’s ailments when she accompanied him to meet the former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in Connecticut in October 2009. Wei Ling, a neurologist, “did a few simple neurological tests and decided the nerves to his legs were not working as they should”.
He touted “independence through merger” as a success and utilised television and the mass media effectively. When the PAP defeated the Barisan in a landslide victory on 21 September, it was seen as a public endorsement of merger and Lee’s socio-economic policies. Australian and British officials expected a Barisan win. In conjunction with Sabah (formerly North Borneo) and Sarawak, Lee proclaimed Singapore as part of Malaysia in a second ceremony on 16 September accompanied by a military parade. Lim Chin Siong’s arrest had however generated widespread sympathy for the Barisan and a close result was predicted.
In the party conference on 18 June 1960, Ong filed “16 resolutions” against the leadership, accusing Lee of failing to seek party consensus when deciding policy, not adhering to anti-colonialism and suspending left-wing unions. Ong resigned his seat in December, precipitating the Hong Lim by-election on in April 1961 which he won against a PAP candidate. Lee regarded it as a move to split the party and together with his allies expelled Ong from the party. For the first time, Lim’s faction openly revolted against Lee and endorsed Workers’ Party chairman David Marshall who won the seat. The death of the PAP assemblyman for Anson that April triggered a second by-election.
