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with bruskwood.
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Dr. Young who was making independent
observations, found the neighbourhood of the Sanatorium
infested with the Anopheles Mosquite, and proposed that
the surrounding hills should be cleared for a distance
of Three hundred yards, the mall bogs, of which he
found several, drained, and the Anopheles pools in the
nullahs filled up. I gave carte blanche so far as the
surrounding Crown Land was concerned, and 200 men of an
Indian Regiment were sent to carry out the work under Dr.
Young'a directions. It has been very thoroughly done,
and a detachment of Indian Troops is about to be sent to
re-occupy the Sanatorium. When the Malarial season arrives
I shall watch the result with great
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interest.
I have alse taken in hand the treat-
ment of twe mullahs in the Western District of Victoria
where there are admirable building sites but the position
is notoriously malarious. The cost of this tentative
experiment is not large up to the present; but should
it prove effective it will be necessary to undertake
very extensive and expensive works to combat this
Malarial past.
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Next to Malaria which is accountable
for a large proportion of the death rate of the Colony the question of plague is pressing for investigation.
We are in the dark as to its origin, or the means of its
propagation