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time before any detailed investigations can be made in

this direction.

not-

Kala Azar is known to exist in the Colony.

(c) There are no recorde available as to the numbers of per-

Good sons examined for filarial diseases alone, but the boold

of every patient admitted to a Hospital here, whose temper

ature is above normal, is submitted to microscopical

examination and many of these blood smears are taken bet-

ween 6 p.m. and 6 a.m.

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(a) During the year several of the mountain streams, which

form anopheles pools were trained at a cost of $30,628.

this work goee on continuously, a vote being taken each

year for the purpose.

(e) All the European District Sanitary Inspectors and the

Scavenging Inspectors (seventeen in number) and also the

in the villages European Rural Folice who act as Sanitary Inspectors, pay

special attention to the prevention of the breeding of

mosquitoes in and around dwellinge and there are also

small gangs of coolies who are engaged in house to house

cleansing work in the native quarters during the morning

and spend their afternoons in clearing brushwood in the

neighbourhood of dwellings, collecting old pots and other

receptacles for water from the hillsides and wastelands,

in

oiling pools, and other anti-malarial work, under the

direction of the European Inspectors. About 50 men are

employed in this manner including native foremen.

(r) The amount of quinine issued free during the year was

as follows

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