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157
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The ratio per 1000 of admissions to Hospital for
Malaria among the British troops during the past five
years has been as follows:-
1910
1911
177.0 125.5
1912 24.0
1913 1914 42.5 BE2.G
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while among the Indian troops the ratio were:-
1910 89.8
1971
1912
1913
1914
31.8 83.2 03.9 143.7
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As explained in previous reports, the "ilitary figures constitute probably the most accurate test of the pro-
gress of our anti-malarial works, since they comprise
that portion of the population which is under constant
medical supervision; even these figures are however
liable to some fluctuation, depending on the healthi-
ness or otherwise of the last station occupied by the
troope, while during the past year, owing to the exi-
gencies of the Military situation, troops have been
stationed in outlying portions of the Colony, There no
anti-malarial measures have hitherto been needed.
The civilian figures are liable to far more violent
fluctuations on account of the changing nature of the
native population; there is a daily ebb and flow of
nearly four thousand Chinese between Hongkong and the
mainland of China, and in addition, the Colony has been
liable of late to periodical inroads of large numbers
of people, who have been disturbed by the political
unrest prevailing in that country. During 1911 and 1912
Rome forty to fifty thousand people sought refuge in
Hongkong during the rebellion which led to the establ-
ishment of the republic, and in 1913 a further influx
of a like number of persone occurred during the monthe
of July, August and September in consequence of renewed
political disturbances.
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