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over the Pok Oi Hospital which for a number of years has been practically empty of patients serving chiefly as a residence for the local herbalist and the secretary to the Committee and as a meeting place for the last. It was hoped that it might have been possible to convert it into a district hospital under the Medical Department. However, the elders could not agree to the terms offered and the matter dropped.
540. Negotiations were commenced towards renting of three new shop houses which were in course of erection and which could with few alterations be converted into a centre containing a new and better dispensary and treatment station, a small hospital with a few beds and a medical officer's quarters. Satisfactory terms having been obtained the new centre will be opened early in 1933.
Police Stations.
541. Police Stations were visited at intervals by the M.O. i/c. N.T. With the exception of Tsun Wan where there is still a good deal of the disease Malaria has shown a gratifying decrease. The following are the incidence figures for the past three years:
1930 1931 1932
258 cases 148 cases 135 cases.
Shing Mun Dam Site.
542. In November operations having commenced preparatory to building a dam at Shing Mun Gorge, investigations were made to ascertain the risks from malaria, it being understood that next year there would be a labour force of 1,000 or over resident.
543. Investigations made by the Malariologist showed that:
(a) there existed numerous anopheline breeding grounds and potential breeding grounds.
(b) the dangerous malaria carriers A. minimus, A. jeyporiensis and A. maculatus were present.
(c) the spleen rate in Woo Hop village adjacent was 33 per cent.
(d) the road making coolies were already suffering rather severely from malaria.
(e) a number of anophelines caught in the lines were malaria infected.
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over the Pok Oi Hospital which for a number of years has been practically empty of patients serving chiefly as a residence for the local herbalist and the secretary to the Committee and as a meeting place for the last. It was hoped that it might have been possible to convert it into a district hospital under the Medical Deparment. However, the elders could not agree to the terms offered and the matter dropped.
540. Negotiations were commenced towards renting of three new shop houses which were in course of erection and which could with few alterations be converted into a centre containing a new and better dispensary and treatment station, a small hospital with a few beds and a medical officer's quarters. Satis- factory terms having been obtained the new centre will be opened early in 1933.
Police Stations.
541. Police Stations were visited at intervals by the M.O. i/c. N.T.
With the exception of Tsun Wan where there is still a good deal of the disease Malaria has shown a gratifying de- crease. The following are the incidence figures for the past three years:
1930
1931
1932
258 cases
148 cases
135 cases.
Shing Mun Dam Site.
542. In November operations having commenced preparatory to building a dam at Shing Mun Gorge, investigations were made to ascertain the risks from malaria, it being understood that next year there would be a labour force of 1,000 or over resident.
543. Investigations made by the Malariologist showed that:-
(a) there existed numerous anopheline breeding grounds
and potential breeding grounds.
(b) the dangerous malaria carriers A. minimus, A. Jey-
poriensis and A. Maculatus were present.
(c) the spleen rate in Woo Hop village adjacent was 33
per cent.
(d) the road making coolies were already suffering rather
severely from malaria.
(e) a number of anophelines caught in the lines were
malaria infected.
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