AnnualReport-1925 — Page 351

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Table of Malarial Deaths in Kowloon.

Year Deaths from Malaria Deaths from Malaria per cent. of total deaths Deaths from Malaria per 1,000 of population 1914 61 2.6 0.87 1915 66 3.8 0.90 1917 98 3.2 1.26 1919 101 3.6 1.16 1920 84 2.8 0.80 1921 86 2.9 0.71 1922 204 4.9 1.53 1923 324 7.1 2.31 1924 395 7.6 2.16 1925 367 7.7 1.83

During recent years in Kowloon there has been a great increase in building and houses have been built in areas which were before given over to cultivation. Owing to the very large amount of engineering work required for the training of nullahs and the abolition of mosquito-breeding places such preventive measures have not kept pace with the extension of the urban area.

Opportunities for infection with Malaria have therefore much increased in Kowloon.

Table of Malarial deaths in Shaukiwan.

Year Deaths from Malaria Deaths from Malaria per cent. of total deaths Deaths from Malaria per 1,000 of population 1914 19 5.8 1.07 1915 27 7.4 1.52 1917 29 7.4 1.62 1919 13 3.1 0.68 1920 13 4.3 0.68 1921 13 8.7 0.62 1922 34 6.3 1.28 1923 32 4.9 1.17 1924 16 3.3 0.52 1925 6 1.2 0.17