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Appendix B.
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE WORK OF THE MALARIA BUREAU FOR THE YEAR 1933.
by
R. B. JACKSON, M.D., D.P.H., Malariologist.
Staff.
The staff consisted of the Malariologist, Assistant to Malariologist, four Inspectors, one Probationer Inspector, one clerk and four coolies. The Assistant to Malariologist was absent on leave from 6th May onwards. A probationer Inspector was appointed in April on account of the extra work entailed by the Shing Mun Camp.
From 1st August the services of four vaccinators were placed at the disposal of the Bureau. They assisted in larval surveys and helped to collect mosquitoes from houses.
Work carried out during the year.
This was included under the following headings:-
(a) General mosquito survey of the Colony and New Territories, in order to determine what species existed, their life histories, and, as far as possible, their identifications in the larval and adult stages.
(b) A general investigation of malaria and other mosquito-borne diseases.
(c) The catching of mosquitoes frequenting habitations, their identification, and the dissections of such Anophelines as were found, for malarial and filarial infections.
(d) Investigations as to the prevalence of malaria in certain areas, and the conditions under which it was existing, with a view to its abolition, and, in the case of the Shing Mun Camp, the supervision of certain measures directed against Anopheline larvae and mosquitoes.
(e) Local mosquito surveys for the abatement of mosquito nuisance.
(f) The teaching of mosquitology and the instruction of the inspectors in this work, and other matters bearing on the subject.
(g) Co-operation with Government Departments, the Military, Naval and Air Forces, public companies and private individuals in the investigation and eradication of malaria.
(h) Experiments with Paris Green in the destruction of Anopheline larvae.