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report as I suggest upon the present necessities of

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the City of Victoria and the rapidly growing town on

Sanctosures 8., 9.870.

Kowloon peninsula as regards sanitation.

14.

I have in this despatch only dealt

with the question of sanitation in relation to plague;

but much has been done and is being done by the Public

Works Department in dealing with the Anopheles

Mosquito and I see solid ground for hope that with

continued effort the curse of Malarial fever may

ultimately practically disappear from our returns.

15.

I enclose for your information three

of the returns that are sent to me daily. I have had

these returns made in the hope that one day the

accumülated facts might afford some clue to the

etiology of the disease; hence I have requested that

in the history of the cases the places where employed

and the places where food was procured should be noted

as it is possible that mouldy rice might be the

if

original host of the plague bacillus, and many cases

could be traced to the same source of supply, a clue

might