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Health, while information is also obtained from private medical practitioners as to special outbreaks of Malaria in any portions of the Colony and the death returns are scrutinized for deaths from this disease. Copies of a pamphlet entitled “Advice concerning Mosquitoes and Malaria,” in both English and Chinese, have also been freely distributed to householders and every effort has been made to induce them to take part in the work of mosquito destruction. The amounts spent on nullah training for the years 1912, 1913 and 1914 were respectively $27,225, $18,140 and $33,926, while the total length of trained nullahs and channels built since the commencement of anti-malarial work in the Colony is 70,928 feet or 13.4 miles; the total cost of this work has been $325,496.
The Police Admissions to Hospital for Malaria for the past ten years are shown in the following Table :-
Year From the City From rest of Colony Total Strength of Police Force Percentage of strength 1905 42 85 127 1,018 12 1906 37 37 74 1,047 7 1907 40 65 105 1,049 10 1908 32 76 108 1,018 10 1909 37 50 87 1,050 8 1910 66 69 135 1,039 13 1911 30 83 113 1,031 11 1912 37 51 88 1,120 8 1913 68 95 163 1,170 14 1914 101 81 182 1,206 15 Average 12.2The following Table shows the total deaths in the Colony from Malaria during each of the past ten years —
Year Total Deaths from Malaria Deaths in the City (Chinese only) Total Deaths 1905 87 287 1906 134 448 1 1907 138 579 1908 133 499 1909 123 422 1910 282 591 1911 176 338 1912 214 432 1913 110 290 1914 73 241 Average 378 4.6