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APPENDIX B.
Annual Report of the Work of the Malaria Bureau for the Year 1935.
by
R. B. Jackson, M.D., D.P.H., Malariologist.
Staff.
1. The staff consisted of the Malariologist, the Assistant to the Malariologist, five Inspectors and four coolies.
2. The services of two vaccinators were placed at the disposal of the Bureau. They assisted in the larval surveys, the identification of larvae, collecting of mosquitoes from habitations and in other work.
Scope of activities.
3. The activities of the Malaria Bureau included:-
I.
A general investigation of Malaria and other Mosquito-borne diseases.
II.
General mosquito survey of the Colony and New Territories in order to determine what species exist, their life histories, and, as far as possible, their identification in the larval and adult stages.
III.
The catching of mosquitoes frequenting human habitations, cow byres, pigsties and goat pens, and the dissection of such anophelines as were found for malarial and filarial infections and for obtaining precipitine reactions.
IV.
Feeding experiments.
V.
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 Shing Mun Camp, Shek O, Tytam Tuk, the supervision of measures directed against anopheline larvae and mosquitoes.
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- M 122
APPENDIX B.
Annual Report of the Work of the Malaria Bureau for the Year 1935.
by
R. B. Jackson, M.D., D.P.H., Malariologist.
Staff.
1. The staff consisted of the Malariologist, the Assistant to the Malariologist, five Inspectors and four coolies.
2. The services of two vaccinators were placed at the dis- posal of the Bureau. They assisted in the larval surveys, the identification of larvae, collecting of mosquitoes from habitations and in other work.
Scope of activities.
3. The activities of the Malaria Bureau included:-
I.
A general investigation of Malaria and other Mosquito borne diseases.
II.
General mosquito survey of the Colony and New Territories in order to determine what species exist, their life histories, and, as far as possible, their identification in the larval and adult stages.
III.
The catching of mosquitoes frequenting human habitations, cow byres, pigsties and goat pens, and the dissection of such anophelines as were found for malarial and filarial infections and for obtaining precipitine reactions.
IV.
Feeding experiments.
V.
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 Shing Mun Camp, Shek O, Tytam Tuk, the supervision of measures directed against anopheline larvae and mosquitoes.
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