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93. The Hospital for the sick and injured was also under the charge of the Resident Medical Officer, two dressers being provided to assist him. Treatment was supervised by the M.O. i/c New Territories.
94. On reference to the map it will be seen that the Shing Mun River rises east of Tai Mo Shan mountain, flows south to Pineapple Pass and thence to Jubilee Dam. There are no human habitations in its upper reaches, the villagers having migrated, flooded fallow rice fields were formerly a feature of the stream and its tributaries from Pineapple Pass upwards.
95. A wide stream marked A flows south from Tai Mo Shan, it has numerous branches some of which take origin near the Camp. These water courses are rocky, rugged, and strewn with granite boulders of all sizes and shapes, sometimes they flow through deep gorges, in places the grades are steep, in others flat. In many of the valleys plots for rice and other cultivations arranged in terraces, have been constructed by building a series of stone walls across the valleys in order to retain the soil, the valley streams being usually diverted to one side and used for irrigation purposes, in other instances the water for irrigation is derived from seepages which drain into ditches. There were formerly some flooded fallow rice fields along streams A and A5 north of the Access Road.
96. A stream marked B runs alongside the Access Road to the village of Tsuen Wan, at its head are abandoned rice fields, which were formerly undrained. The remainder of the valley is in rice and other cultivation.
97. At the end of 1935 anti-malarial operations were extended beyond the half-mile circle up to the right bank of A2 as far as the Castle Peak Road and from thence along both banks of A4 to the village of Sheung Kwai Chung, irrigation ditches were cleared of vegetation and the flow improved by better grading in order to make them less suitable for A. minimus larvae, rice fields were drained as soon as the second crop was cut, so as to destroy any larvae of A. jeyporiensis present.
98. The results of 347 morning collections and of the dissections were as follows:-
Species Number caught Number dissected Percentage infected A. minimus 1,273 1,159 3.28 A. jeyporiensis 2,774 2,646 2.34 A. hyrcanus 4,590 4,012 0.40 A. maculatus 856 819 0.85 A. splendidus 37 35 A. karwari 25 24M 139
93. The Hospital for the sick and injured was also under the charge of the Resident Medical Officer, two dressers being provided to assist him. Treatment was supervised by the M. O. i/e New Territories.
94. On reference to the map it will be seen that the Shing Mun River rises east of Tai Mo Shan mountain, flows south to Pineapple Pass and thence to Jubilee Dam. There are no human habitations in its upper reaches, the villagers having migrated, flooded fallow rice fields were formerly a feature of the streain and its tributaries from Pineapple Pass upwards.
95. A wide stream marked A flows south from Tai Mo Shan, it has numerous branches some of which take origin near the Camp. These water courses are rocky reddod, and strewn with granite boulders of all sizes and shapes, sometimes they flow through deep gorges, in places the grades are steep, in others flat. In many of the valleys plots for rice and other cultivations arranged in terraces, have been constructed by building a series of stone walls across the valleys in order to retain the soil, the valley streams being usually diverted to one side and used for irrigation purposes, in other instances the water for irrigation is derived from seepages which drains into ditches. There were formerly some flooded fallow rice fields along streams A and A5 north of the Access Road.
96: A stream marked B runs alongside the Access Road to the village of Tsun Wan, at its head are abandoned rice fields. which were formerly undrained. The remainder of the valley is in rice and other cultivation.
97. At the end of 1935 anti malarial operations were extended beyond the half mile circle up to the right bank of A2 as far as the Castle Peak Road and from thence along both banks of A4 to the village of Sheung Kwai Chung, irrigation ditches were cleared of vegetation and the flow improved by better grading in order to make them less suitable for A. minimus larvae, rice fields were drained as soon as the second crop was cut, so as to destroy any larvae of A. jeyporiensis present.
98. The results of 347 morning collections and of the dissections were as follows:-
Species.
Number caught.
Number Percentage dissected. infected.
A. minimus
1,273
1,159
3.28
A. jeyporiensis
2,774
2,646
2.34
A. hyrcanus
4,590
4,012
0.40
A. maculatus
856
819
0.85
A. splendidus
37
35
A. karwari
25
24
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