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through the District with various larvicides.

These watercourses are however rough and

rocky and it has not been found easy to deal with the insects.

There are several other similar watercourses

along the Southern limits of the City where Malarial fever is

also prevalent and an estimate was formed at the beginning of

this year of the cost of dealing more effectually with them

by training the...

I enclose a map shewing the position of

the streams referred to in the Estimate copy of which is also

enclosed.

Enclosure 4.

In February the estimate and plan were

submitted to the Public Works Committee of the Legislative

Council who unanimously agreed that the work should be under-

taken as early as possible commencing with the streams in the

neighbourhood of Richmond and Macdonnell Roads.

This recommendation was referred to Professor

Simpson who expressed the opinion, in a minute of which

I attach a copy, that the work should be carried out.

Enclosures April, 1902.

As the work has not been commenced, I have

given instructions not to proceed with it this year, and I

now ask your authority to provide for it in the 1903 Estimates.

The streams shewn in the plan at A, B, G,

and H are those which it is proposed to deal with first at an

estimated cost of $9,000.

Vote No. 15. The amount inserted in the

Estimates for the current year was not intended to cover the

Electric lighting of the Female Venereal Ward, because it was not