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my present remarks may be read with previous reports in 0.8.0.
461/1901 and C.S.0.415/1901.
2.
Nullah above Ripon Terrace, West of the
Nethersole Hospital.
This nullah is cleaner and better in every
way than before, but larvae of Anopheles were to be found
sparingly throughout the nullah, and plentifully in the flat
portion of it close to the road. Very continuous attention is
required here.
The water cozing from the foot of the re-
taining wall opposite Rippon Terrace is being quite adequately
dealt with. Much of it has been done away with by means of
concrete, and where it still continues I was unable to find
larvae.
The training of this nullab is in my estina-
tion the most pressing of all the measures for the diminution of
Maleria in this Colony. It is almost entirely responsible for
the prevalence of the disease in the Terrace named and in the
Chinese Streets below it. It runs close to the Nethersole
Hospital, is quite near the Tung Wah Hospital and probably also
affects injuriously the Government Civil Hospital, which is not
far off.
While the training of the larger nullahs
with the considerable expenditure involved may reasonably demand
nuch