444
(e) The staff consists of 21 trained British Inspec- tors, who give their whole time to Sanitary work, five rural Police who act also as Sanitary Inspec- tore, a storekeeper and 664 Interpreters, Foremen, Artisans, Bullock-drivers, Scavengers, Bargemen, and Spolies whose whole time is occupied in house- cleansing and scavenging, disinfection, clearing brushwood and collecting receptacles for water from the hillsides and waste lands in the neigh- bourhood of dwellings, in oiling pools and other sanitary and anti-malarial works.
(f) The amount of quinine issued free during the year
wae as follows:-
Government Hospitale
02.
2,200
162
•
74
Tung Wah Hospital
Kwong Wah Hospital
Alice Memorial and Affiliated
Hospitals.. ... ... ... ...
427
Public Dispensaries
553
Total
3,416
(g) quinine has been regularly distributed to certain
schools in the most malarious part of the Colony. (b) There are no estates employing indentured labour.
(1) The question of housing is dealt with in the
Public Health and Buildings Ordinance
-
a copy of
which was sent with the Report for 1910.
(j) The total deaths from Malaria during the past five
years have been as follows:-
1909 422
1910 591
1911 338
1912 1913
432
290
this represents a ratio per 1000 of population of
1.2
1.7
0.9
1.1
0.7
The ratio per 1000 of admissions to Hospital for
Malaria among the British troops during the past
five years has been as follows:-
(8)
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