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was not very good 74.84 per centum of the Force being in
Hospital during the year with an average stay in Hospital
of 7.4 days per man. Many of the ailments were however of
a trivial nature, and the percentage of admissions would
be considerably reduced, were it not for the fact that a
Policeman who does not feel well enough to go on four
hours' duty is compelled to go into Hospital.
6.
The practice of depositing corpses
in the streets and open spaces of the Colony to which
notice was drawn in the concluding paragraph of my Des-
-patch last year was referred to in my Despatch No. 121
of the 18th. instant. I regret that no satisfactory scheme
has been devised to stop this obnoxious custom.
of the work carried out by the
Public Works Department in improving the sanitary condi-
-tion of this town undoubtedly that which has had most
definite and direct effect has been the systematic train-
-ing of the nullahs which formerly provided breeding
grounds for the anopheles mosquito. The Medical Profession
and the Public are alike satisfied as to the effect of
this work in lessening the malarial fever which was in the
past the greatest scourge of the Colony and till recently
made
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