$
1
I
Where
cserved.
January.
February.
towloon
servatory.[0.88$
15. Victoria is the only town and the figures are given in
the foregoing Table.
16. Monthly table of rain fall.
0.40
0.580
March.
3.725
April.
1.955
May.
18.190
June.
July.
August.
September.
October.
2.535
November.
084*0
70.120
December.
Total in inches
17. (a) I attach copies of our Byelaws prohibiting the breed-
ing of mosquitoes. During 1910 a large number of
notices and warnings were issued to tenants in connec-
tion with breaches of this byelaw, and 14 prosecutions
were instituted under it, with the result that convic-
tions were obtained in all the cases and penalties to
the amount of $171 were inflicted by the magistrates. (b) The only children examined for enlarged spleen were those treated in the various Hospitals. The Chinese
of the lower class are so very apt to resent any
handling whatever of their children by Europeans that
it would probably be only possible to obtain these
spleen records through Chinese Practitioners trained
in Western Medicine, and the number of these prac-
titioners is at present so limited and the work
available for them so extensive, that it may be some-
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