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APPENDIX B.
Annual Report of the Work of the Malaria Bureau for the year 1936.
by
R. B. Jackson, M.D., D.P.H., Malariologist.
Staff.
1. The staff consisted of the Malariologist, Assistant to Malariologist, five Inspectors, one clerk, and four coolies. The Malariologist was on leave from 7th March until 10th December, during which period Dr. J. B. Mackie acted.
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.
Scope of Activities.
3. The scope of activities of the Bureau included the following undertakings:
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 dissecting of such anophelines as were found for malarial and filarial infections and for obtaining precipitin reactions.
IV.
Investigations as to the prevalence of malaria in certain areas and the conditions under which it was existing with a view to its abolition.
M 127
APPENDIX B.
Annual Report of the Work of the Malaria Bureau for the year 1936.
by
R. B. Jackson, M.D., D.P.H., Malariologist.
Staff.
1. The staff consisted of the Malariologist, Assistant to Malariologist, five Inspectors, one clerk, and four coolies. The Malariologist was on leave from 7th March until 10th December, during which period Dr. J. B. Mackie acted.
2. The services of two vaccinators were placed at the disposal of the Bureau. They assisted in larval surveys, identification of larvac, collecting of mosquitoes from habitations, and in other work..
Scope of Activities.
3. The scope of activities of the Bureau included the following undertakings:-
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 dissecting of such anophelines as were found for malarial and filurial infections and for obtaining precipitin reactions.
IV.
Investigations as to the prevalence of malaria in certain areas and the conditions under which it was existing with a view to its abolition.
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