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never great and is liable to frequent necessary interruption.
It would therefore have been impossible to have carried on any
consecutive work without the special assistance detailed below:-
(1) An arrangement was made by which Inspector Watson
agreed to give his spare time (i.e. the time which he has free
after his duties as Inspector of the Cattle Depot and Slaughter
Depot
Houses are finished) to the collection of larvae etc. from July
1st 1912 to June 30th 1913. The results of his visits in the
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City of Victoria in search of Stegomyia are given below. In
addition he has made a most thorough search of the Island for
anophelines and his remarkable skill in collecting anopheline
larvae was of the greatest value.
(2) The H.S.D. was good enough to give instructions that
the Sanitary Staff should, in the course of this routine duties,
inspect all houses for larvae and when larvae were found that
they should be sent to this Institute for examination by me. The
number of visits and the results are given below.
(3) On the departure of Inspector Watson on leave to England,
the Mafoo of this Institute was specially seconded as collector.
He has carried out this work well and it still continues,
(4) In the laboratory examination of the larvae, pupae and
adults, I have received much valuable assistance from Captain
D. Arthur M.B., I.H.S. who has been working in his spare time in
the Institute for some considerable time.