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APPENDIX B.
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE WORK OF THE MALARIA BUREAU FOR THE YEAR 1930.
By R. B. JACKSON, M.D., D.P.H., MALARIOLOGIST.
STAFF.
Mr. DeB and I arrived in the Colony on transfer from the Federated Malay States on April 24th.
Through the kind co-operation of the Government Bacteriologist, Dr. Minett, half the upper storey of the Bacteriological Institute was occupied as a Malaria Bureau.
In May a clerk was detailed for work at the Bureau and in November four Chinese joined as probationer inspectors. At the end of the year the staff consisted of the Malariologist, the Assistant to the Malariologist, one clerk, four probationer inspectors and two coolies.
The scope of activities of the Bureau includes:-
1. A general mosquito survey of the Colony and New Territories to determine what species exist and the life history of each.
2. A general survey of malaria.
3. Dissection of mosquitoes with a view to ascertaining their relation to the spread of disease.
4. Special anopheline surveys in malarious districts to determine the breeding places of those species which carry malaria with a view to their eradication.
5. Local mosquito surveys with a view to abatement of mosquito nuisances.
6. The teaching of mosquitology.
7. Co-operation with Government Departments, the Military, Naval and Air Forces, public companies and private individuals in the investigation and eradication of Malaria.