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It will be observed that there was a marked increase in the

number of admissions for Malaria during 1910, and this is attributed by come to increased building activity in Dis-

tricts in which the nullahs had not yet been trained, and by others to a greater uniformity in the rain-fall during

1910 that is to say that there was an almost daily suc-

cession of small showers during the rainy season, sufficient

to keep the breeding pools supplied with water, and an ab-

sence of heavy rain storms which have the offect of scouring

out the many rock pools which constitute the greatest diffi-

culty in regard to anti-malarial measures in this Colony.

Another feature of the Colony which somewhat vitiates

our Malaria figures is the fact that Hong Kong is in close

daily contact with the native Chinese City of Canton and its

surrounding country, no less than four thousand Chinese,

mostly of the coolie class, passing backwards and forwards

between Hong Kong and Canton daily so that in many cases the

malarial infection is not acquired in Hong Kong but in China..

(k) Hygiene is taught regularly in all the Schools of the Colony

and special attention is paid to the teaching of the manner

in which mosquitoes breed and the part played by these insects

in the transmission of Malaria. Pamphlets on this subject

have also been prepared (copies attached) and 2000 copies

of the English version have been distributed to the Euro-

pean inhabitants and to the leading Chinese who read English,

while a Chinese translation has also been made of which

it is proposed to distribute 50,000 copies, many of which

have already been issued. Lectures are also given by myself

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