(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

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