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my present remarks may be read with previous reports in 0.8.0.

461/1901 and C.S.0.415/1901.

2.

Nullah above Ripon Terrace, West of the

Nethersole Hospital.

This nullah is cleaner and better in every

way than before, but larvae of Anopheles were to be found

sparingly throughout the nullah, and plentifully in the flat

portion of it close to the road. Very continuous attention is

required here.

The water cozing from the foot of the re-

taining wall opposite Rippon Terrace is being quite adequately

dealt with. Much of it has been done away with by means of

concrete, and where it still continues I was unable to find

larvae.

The training of this nullab is in my estina-

tion the most pressing of all the measures for the diminution of

Maleria in this Colony. It is almost entirely responsible for

the prevalence of the disease in the Terrace named and in the

Chinese Streets below it. It runs close to the Nethersole

Hospital, is quite near the Tung Wah Hospital and probably also

affects injuriously the Government Civil Hospital, which is not

far off.

While the training of the larger nullahs

with the considerable expenditure involved may reasonably demand

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