(f)
300
cleansing, disinfecting, clearing brushwood and collecting receptacles for water from the hillsides and waste lands in the neighbourhood of dwellings, in oiling pools and other sanitary and anti-malarial work.
The amount of Quinine issued free during the year was as follows:
Government Hospitals.
Tung Wah Hospital
.2,100 oz.
210 oz.
Alice Memorial and Affiliated Hospitals..215 oz.
Public Dispensaries..
..563 oz.
Total 3,088 oz.
(g)
Quinine has been regularly distributed during the year in certain schools in the most malarious part of the Colony.
indentured
(h)
(1)
(3)
There are no estates employing underhand labour.
The question of housing is dealt with in the Public Health and Buildings Ordinances a copy of which was sent with the
report for 1910.
The total deaths from Malaria during the past five years have been as follows:
1907
1908
1909
1910
1911
579
499
422
591
338
The ratio per 1000 of admissions to Hospital for Malaria among the British troops during the past five years has been
as follows:
1907
1908
196.0
256.0
1909
138.4
1910
1911
177.0
125.5
while among the Indian troops the ratios were
1907
1909
1910
1908
574.0
102.8
.5413
1911
89.8
31.8
These figures show on the whole a steady decrease in the Malaria incidence of the Colony which appears mere marked