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through the District with various larvicides.
These watercourses are however rough and
rocky and it has not been found easy to deal with the insects.
There are several other similar watercourses
along the Southern limits of the City where Malarial fever is
also prevalent and an estimate was formed at the beginning of
this year of the cost of dealing more effectually with them
by training the...
I enclose a map shewing the position of
the streams referred to in the Estimate copy of which is also
enclosed.
Enclosure 4.
In February the estimate and plan were
submitted to the Public Works Committee of the Legislative
Council who unanimously agreed that the work should be under-
taken as early as possible commencing with the streams in the
neighbourhood of Richmond and Macdonnell Roads.
This recommendation was referred to Professor
Simpson who expressed the opinion, in a minute of which
I attach a copy, that the work should be carried out.
Enclosures April, 1902.
As the work has not been commenced, I have
given instructions not to proceed with it this year, and I
now ask your authority to provide for it in the 1903 Estimates.
The streams shewn in the plan at A, B, G,
and H are those which it is proposed to deal with first at an
estimated cost of $9,000.
Vote No. 15. The amount inserted in the
Estimates for the current year was not intended to cover the
Electric lighting of the Female Venereal Ward, because it was not