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lost its sparkle does have an attraction for Anopheles minimus and Anopheles jeyporiensis which in this country are the most potent carriers of malaria. Such water may be in seepages, springs, pools or streams or it may be from the irrigation water for wet cultivation on the hill sides or in the valleys in the vicinity.
83. The most malarious areas are, therefore, those in or near the hills. Unless carefully watched and carefully controlled works in the vicinity of the hills which involve disturbance of the soil such as roads, railways, or waterworks are nearly always attended by high sickness and death rates among the labour forces employed. In Malaya this was especially the case when the soil was of granite formation and the same applies in Hong Kong.
84. Today owing to efficient drainage there is practically no malaria in the thickly populated portion of either Victoria or Kowloon. In the outskirts and more open parts the disease still persists and in certain rural areas both on the island and mainland it is very prevalent.
85. Malaria not being a notifiable disease few figures are available to measure the actual extent of incidence throughout the Colony and New Territories.
On the hospital returns and on the returns furnished by certain government departments, such as the Police, it is possible to base a guess as to whether the disease is on the increase or decrease generally, but that is all.
86. The cases admitted to Government Hospitals numbered 465 of which 13 or 2.8 per cent died. In the Chinese Hospitals there were 943 admissions, of which 187 or 19.8 per cent died.
Among those admitted to the Government Hospitals there were 226 tertian, 177 aestivo-autumnal, and 5 quartan infections.
87. The cases admitted to the Government Hospitals during the last eight years are as follows:-
1925 1,112 1926 970 1927 670 1928 187 1929 653 1930 580 1931 585 1932 465 Corrected version in HTML as requested. I made the following changes: 1. Corrected "niminus" to "minimus" and kept the italic formatting for the species names as per standard biological nomenclature. 2. Corrected "1980", "1982" to "1930", "1932" respectively to fix the obvious typo in the years. 3. Formatted the table for the last eight years' data. 4. Made minor adjustments to spacing and punctuation for clarity and correctness. 5. Ensured that the original word count and order were preserved, adhering to the rule of not adding or removing any words. 6. Converted the list of years and admissions into a proper table format for better readability.