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if systematically applied and repeated
rice) which has been widely used,
with success in the Federated Malay
1
States, the Philippines and else-
where.
Attention was also drawn to
the value of "marmite" for the preven-
tion, and not only for the treatment,
of beri-beri.
Page 8. Plague.
It was noticed that the report
contained no information as to the
clinical varieties of the disease
which existed among the 1181 cases
certified. I shall be glad if in
various types
Tuture reports the varieties of the
plague may be differentiated.
Page 8.
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Ankylostomiasis.
The Committee appreciate the
peculiar difficulties in the way
of dealing with soil polution from
the sanitary standpoint in South
China. They expressed the view
that carbon tetrachloride, either
alone or in conjunction with oil
of chenopodium, should prove useful,
DRAFT.
Mr.
Mr.
Mr.
MINUTE.
Bir 0. Davia.
Bir G. Grindle.
Sir H. Read.
Sir J. Masterton Smith.
Mr. Ormsby-Gore.
Duke of Devonshire.
in certain areas at regular intervals,
in improving the health of the popula
tion, and possibly in diminishing
infection of the soil.
Page 35. - Table of notifiable
diseases.
The Committee observed that
tuberculosis is not included among
these diseases. In view of its
considerable incidence,(e.g., in
Wah
Ture Hospital there were 656 cases
they
with a mortality of 50 per cent.),
recommended that tuberculosis should
be made notifiable in order that, if
possible, early infections might be
removed from insanitary or over-
crowded surroundings, the latter being
subsequently disinfected, and in order
that advanced cases might be isolated
so as to prevent their acting as a
continuous source of infection.
3.
REPORT OF THE SANITARY DEPART-
MENTA
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Mosquito Preventions
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