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Appendix B.
Annual Report of the Work of the Malaria Bureau for the Year 1934.
by
R. B. JACKSON, M.D., D.P.H., Malariologist.
Staff.
The staff consisted of the Malariologist, Assistant Malariologist, five Inspectors, one clerk and four coolies. The Assistant Malariologist returned from leave and resumed duty on the 11th January.
2. The services of two vaccinators were placed at the disposal of the Bureau. They assisted in larval surveys, identification of larvae, collecting of mosquitoes from habitations and in other work.
3. Work carried out throughout 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 identifications and the dissection 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 nuisances.
(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.
M 116
Appendix B.
Annual Report of the Work of the Malaria Bureau for the Year 1934.
by
R. B. JACKSON, M.D., D.P.H., Malariologist.
Staff.
to
The staff consisted of the Malariologist, Assistant Malariologist, five Inspectors, one clerk and four coolies. The Assistant to Malariologist returned from leave and resumed duty on the 11th January.
2. The services of two vaccinators were placed at the disposal of the Bureau. They assisted in larval surveys, identification of larvae, collecting of mosqsitoes from habitations and in other work.
3. Work carried out throughout the year.
This was included under the following headings:-
(a) General mosquito survey of the Colony and New Terri- tories, 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 identifications and. the dissection 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
nuisances.
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 Mili- tary, Naval and Air Forces, public companies and private individuals, in the investigation and eradication of malaria.
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