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times

a year at fixed dates in each district.

3.

The marked decrease in cases of

Malarial Fever among the population is a satisfactory

feature which must be largely attributed to the training

of water courses that served as breeding places for mos-

-quitoes in and near the City of Victoria. This work is

being continued during the current year. It is more dif-

-ficult to account for the

diminution in Malarial fever

among the Police in the New Territory where nothing has

been possible in the direction of training water courses

and prophylactic measures only have been adopted.

4.

Reference is made in Appendix

'A' to the Report of the Medical Officer of Health to the

numbers of dead bodies deposited in the streets and else-

-where. These bodies are mainly those of infants whose

parents wish to escape expense of burial or of persons

dead of infectious disease. In the latter cases the inmates

of the houses in which the deaths occurred have probably

procured the removal of the bodies to escape disinfection

of the premises by the Sanitary Authorities.

Every en-

-deavour has been made to stop this practice hitherto

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without effect. A scheme referred to in paragraph 7 of my

b65b4

Despatch No. 102 of the 12th. April has recently been

initiated