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report as I suggest upon the present necessities of
the City of Victoria and the rapidly growing town on
Kowloon peninsula as regards sanitation.
14.
I have in this despatch only dealt
with the question of sanitation in relation to plague;
but much has been done and is being done by the Public
Works Department in dealing with the Anopheles
Mosquito and I see solid ground for hope that with
continued effort the curse of Malarial fever may
ultimately practically disappear from our returns.
15.
I enclose for your information three
of the returns that are sent to me daily. I have had
these returns made in the hope that one day the
accumulated facts might afford some clue to the
etiology of the disease; hence I have requested that
in the history of the cases the places where employed
and the places where food was procured should be noted
as it is possible that mouldy rice might be the
original host of the plague bacillus, and many cases
could be traced to the same source of supply, a clue