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versity is being built is bounded on the West by a mountain stream which a year ago was found to be swarming with Anopheles larvæ, and although the training of this stream was at once taken in hand and finished in the month of November, 1910, yet it is obvious that the employment of a large number of natives in a locality so long as it was swarmed with Anopheles mosquitoes was bound to lead to a temporary increase in the number of cases of Malaria. The training of these streams and their tributaries, the clearing of the sites and their surroundings, the completion of the building operations and the dispersal of the workmen (many of whom carry the malarial parasite in their blood although quite capable of working) will, we hope, speedily restore these districts to their former state of healthiness.
In this connection it is interesting to note that the completion of the British Section of the Kowloon-Canton railway early in 1910 coincides with a marked reduction in the number of deaths from Malaria in Kowloon.
Another explanation of the temporary increase in the incidence of Malaria that is been offered is the greater uniformity of the rainfall during 1910, that is to say, there was an almost daily succession of small showers during the rainy season, sufficient to keep the breeding pools supplied with water, and an absence of heavy rain storms which have the effect of scouring out the many rock pools which constitute the greatest difficulty in regard to anti-malarial measures in the Colony.
During the year the Medical Officer of Health issued a pamphlet entitled "Advice concerning Mosquitoes and Malaria" in which the breeding of mosquitoes, their connection with the spread of Malaria, and the various means of exterminating them and of protecting oneself from their bites were fully explained. Two thousand copies of this pamphlet have been distributed to Europeans and English-speaking Chinese in the Colony while a translation into Chinese has also been made, of which ten thousand copies have been already distributed, and it is proposed to distribute fifty thousand copies at least to the native population. By these means it is hoped to gradually secure a considerable reduction in the number of mosquitoes in the neighbourhood of dwellings and to encourage the greater use of Quinine among the Chinese who are at present very ignorant of the efficacy of this drug in the prevention and treatment of Malaria.
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versity is being built is bounded on the West by a mountain stream which a year ago was found to be swarming with Anopheles larvæ, and although the training of this stream was at once taken in hand and finished in the month of November, 1910, yet it is obvious that the employment of a large number of nativés in a locality so long as its swarmed with Anopheles mosquitoes was bound to lead to a temporary increase in the number of cases of Malaria. The training of these streams and their tributaries, the clearing of the sites and their surroundings. the completion of the building operations and the dispersal of the workmen (many of whom carry the malarial parasite in their blood although quite capable of working will we hope speedily restore these districts to their former state of healthiness.
In this connection it is interesting to note that the completion of the British Section of the Kowloon-Canton railway early in 1910 coincides with a marked reduction in the number of deaths from Malaria in Kowloon.
Another explanation of the temporary increase in the incidence of Malaria that is been offered is the greater uniformity of the rainfall during 1910, that is to say, there was an almost daily succession of small showers during the rainy season, sufficient to keep the breeding pools supplied with water, and an absence of heavy rain storms which have the effect of scouring out the many rock pools which constitute the greatest difficulty in regard to anti-malarial measures in the Colony.
During the year the Medical Officer of Health issued a pamphlet entitled "Advice concerning Mosquitoes and Malaria " in which the breeding of mosquitoes, their connection with the spread of Malaria, and the various means of exterminating them and of protecting one-self from their bites were fully explained. Two thousand copies of this pamphlet have been distributed to Europeans and English-speaking Chinese in the Colony while a translation into Chinese has also been made, of which ten thousand copies. have been already distributed, and it is proposed to distribute fifty thousand copies at least to the native population. By these means it is hopel to gradually secure a considerable reduction in the number of mosquitoes in the neighbourhood of dwellings and to encourage the greater use of Quinine among the Chinese who are at present very ignorant of the efficacy of this drug in the prevention and treatment of Malaria.
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