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No. 40.
HONG KONG.
THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
(No. 109.) MY LORD,
(Received 27 May, 1909.)
[Copy to Crown Agents, June 7, 1909. L.F.]
[Answered by No. 111.]
Government House, Hong Kong, 26th April, 1909. WITH reference to your Lordship's circular despatch of the 11th ultimo,* have the honour to state that in connection with next year's Estimates the Legislative Council will be invited to vote the sum of £100 for five years more as a grant to the Tropical Diseases Research Fund.
I have, &c.,
By Laboratory Fittings
By Board of Arthropodo- logy at Tropical School By Current Expenditure, Fuel, Light, Water and Laboratory Assistant,
&c.
By Laboratory Require-
ments
By Laboratory Repairs
By Sundries
and Appliances...
25 0 0
16 12 9
8 13 6
4 2 0
35 5 0
347 9 3
£406 15 0
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F. D. LUGARD,
Governor, &c.
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£406 15 0
Dr.
HELMINTHOLOGY.
Helminthology Research Fund, 1908.
To Balance, to credit of Fund, 1 Jan-
uary, 1908
To amount received from Tropical
Diseases Research Fund
To amount received from Students'
Fees
500 0 0 By Current Expenditure, Fael, Light, Water, Cleaning, Laboratory Assist- ant, &c.
Repairs to Laboratory Sundries
Dr.
...
...
1 16 9
By Laboratory Requirements
Cr.
£
8. d.
216 0 1
£ 3. d.
By Salary of Helminthologist By Board of Helminthology while at
Tropical School
396 1 9
...
15 12 0
25 0 0
35 14 9
6 4 3
1 3 G
479 16 3
By Balance, to credit of Research Fund, as per audited Balance Sheet
£717 16 10
238 0 7
£717 16 10
PROTOZOOLOGY.
Protozoology Research Fund, 1908.
£ s. d.
To Balance, to Credit of Fund,
1 January, 1908
560 12 2
To Amount received from Tropical
Diseases Research Fund ...
...
500 0 0 By
By Salary of Protozoologist By Board of Protozoology while at
Tropical Schoul
Current Expenditure, Fuel,
Light, Water, Cleaning, Labora-
tory Assistant, &c.
Cr.
£ 3.
d.
381 2 3
ཝཏྠུ ཝ
12 6 0
25 0 0
By Laboratory Requirements
33 2 10
By Repairs to Laboratory
2 10 9
By Laboratory Sundries
4 12 7
By Model
25 0 0
By Expenses on journey from Egypt
5 4 0
488 18 5
By Balance as per audited Balance
Sheet
£1,060 12 2
571 13 9
£1,060 12 2
No. 41.
CEYLON.
APPENDIX TO REPORT OF THE PRINCIPAL CIVIL MEDICAL OFFICER FOR 1908.
MEASURES TAKEN TO ERADICATE MALARIAL FEVER IN CEYLON DURING 1908.
In compliance with the instructions issued in the Secretary of State's circular dated March 12, 1909,† I have the honour to submit a report on the anti-malarial measures carried out in Ceylon during the year 1908.
2. In my report on this subject for 1906 the rainfall and general configura- tion of this Island were described; therefore it is unnecessary to make any remarks under these headings on this occasion.
3. The general principles for the prevention of malaria, namely, (a) by educating the public as to its cause and prevention; (b) improvement in the sanita- tion of towns and villages; and (c) the distribution of quinine as a prophylactic, were continued throughout the year.
4. (a) Education. The Provincial Surgeons on their tours of inspection, the medical officers of districts, and the apothecaries in charge of remote dispensaries regularly gave popular lectures to the headmen in all parts of the Island, and many thousands of the population attended these demonstrations.
Thousands of pamphlets describing the cause and prevention of this disease have been widely distributed in the English and local vernacular languages.
There was a special course of lectures delivered at the Ceylon Medical College to a large class of native school teachers on sanitation and hygiene, with special reference to the cause and prevention of malaria and the extermination of mosquitoes.
For the first time since these measures were started here many of the Provincial Surgeons report that the dissemination of this knowledge is having good results; that the prejudice against the modern and accepted cause and prevention of malaria among the native races is beginning to be broken down, and that they ask for quinine to be given them as a prophylactic.
5. (b) Sanitation.-There has been a marked improvement in the general sanitation of the small towns and villages. Many of them have been provided with good cement surface drains, brushwood has been cut down in the neighbourhood of dwellings, hollows have been filled, and some canals have been dug for the draining of collections of water. Oiling the surface of large pools has been carried out in some instances.
The lines on which improved sanitation has proceeded have been confined to minor works; no large works on an expensive scale have been attempted, but His Excellency the Governor has included a large sum for such works in his future programme.
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