a omm affracking
to a total of $164,011 ·70, half the total expire ($071,781.92) of the
Def. for the year.
Page 7. General Remarks. The large
Beribar -percentage (12%) of Dvi- beri among
cases admitted to the Tung Wah Hoopt is striking (one also page 28), i.e. 846
fatients with 447% mortality. I desire
to draw
"your
attention to the value in
the treatment of the disinse of
an extract
rice meal (presumably containing
made from
the vitamin lacking
in ove
I which has been widely
-polished ree)
ured with success in
the Filles, the Philiffines, relsewhere. The
Ce also desire to point out that "marmite"
useful for freventing beri bir,
beri.buri, must
ourly, in treating the disease.
folge f.) The car were interested.
note that investi-
gations in Hong Kong covering the previous nine years showg that 15% of plague infections occurred in the Black Rat (Rattus rattus) against 85% in the Brown Rat (Rattus norvegicus This is not in accordance with the observations made in Kenya +464_Anwand Vediend Ropest,-1005) where it is concluded that "plague in Kenya (apart from Mombasa, where Rattus Horvegicus › probably plays a part) is only associated with the black rat
(Rattus rattus kijabius)". No information is given as to the
inical varieties of thɛ disease which existed among the
DRAFT.
C. Davis.
ir G. Grinkl
1181 came
artified, if request that
reforts
manifies
in future, the various kinds of plague
be differentiated.
Page 8.
Ankylostomiasis.
116
The peculiar difficulties in the way of
dealing with soil pollution from the sanitary standpoint in
South Chins are appreciated, The use of Carbon tetrachloride
«ither alone or in combination with oil of chenopodium,
should however prove useful, if systematically applied and
repeated in certain areas at regular intervals, in producing
improvement in the population and possibily in diminishing
infection of the soil.
Itis observed that Page 1
Om -- Franmission. The Principal Civil Medical Officer
combate the theory that leprosy is a contagious disease; but Redeon not advance any fresh argment in support of his belief
that the disease arises from the consumption of imperfectly
sured or salt fish.
Br H. Read
J. Master
Ormsby-k
lave 13.
The suggestion that the unusual prevalence of
malaria vis in part due to the fact that "there were times
then the rainfall was insufficient to scour out the eggs and
larvae of mosquitos from the pools and other collections of
Duke of Devo, water" is perhaps serreat. The difficulties of dealing with
such breeding pingss in riss-growing areas are very consider.
able, as is recognised on page 26 in neting the prevalence of
malaria among the police (seu also page 18, and the Report of
the Sanitary Department 1933, page 8.)
Page 19.
Table II (pagas 21 and 22) shows the
admittance of twelve oases of insanity due to aloshel, but no
sther drug such as opium, or cocaine, etc. appears to have
been an exeiting saUDO,
Page 55.