owloon
ervatory
There
served
2.710
January
15. Victoria is the only town and the figures are given in the
foregoing Table.
16. Monthly Table of rainfall.
2.435
February
4.345
March
3.995
April
3.940
May
14.160
June
7.556
July
December
Total in inches)
15.715
August
3.880
September
0.015
October
0.285
November
4.900
17. (a)
No further legislation has been introduced to prohibit
the breeding of mosquitoes; & copy of the byelaw in force
was sent with the Report for 1910. During the past year
fourteen convictions were obtained for breaches of this
byelaw, the fines amounting to $54.
(b) It has not yet been possible to make any spleen exami-
nations in regard to children outside the various Hos-
pitals, for reasons given in the previous report.
Kala Azar does not exist in the Colony.
(c)
(a)
(e)
Filarial disease is uncommon in Hong Kong, frequent blood examinations are made in all the Hospitals in search of
these parasites.
The training of nullahs in the vicinity of the City le
still in progress and during 1912 the sum of $27,225 was
spent for this work. The total length of trained nullshe
and cement channels built since the commencement of anti-
malarial works in the Colony is 10.2 miles.
The staff remains as in 1911. Nineteen Inspectors who
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