356
give their whole time to sanitary work, five rural Police who
act also as Sanitary Inspectors, and 170 Interpreters, Foremen,
Artisans and coolies whose whole time is occupied in house
cleansing, disinfecting, clearing brushwood and collecting
receptacles for water from the hillsides and waste lands in
the neighbourhood of dwellings, in oiling pools and other sani-
tary and anti-malarial work.
(f) The amount of Quinine issued free during the year was as
follows :-
Government Hospitals.
Tung Wah Hospital
Kwong Wah Hospital
Alice Memorial and Affiliated Hospitals............
Public Dispensaries...
.2,000 oz.
214 02. 60 oz.
361 oz.
596 oz.
Total....
3,231 oz.
(g) Quinine has been regularly distributed during the year in
certain Schools in the most malarious part of the Colony.
There are no estates employing indentured labour.
(h)
(1)
The question of housing is dealt with in the Public Health and
Building Ordinance a copy of which was sent with the Report
for 1910.
Mplaria
(j) The total deaths from Malaria during the past five years have
been as follows :-
1908
499
1909
422
1910
591
1911
338
1912
431
The ratio per 1,000 of admissions to Hospitals for Malaria
among the British Troops during the past five years has been
as follwe
1908
1909
1910
1911
1912
256.0
138.4
177.0
126.5
84.0
while among the Indian Troops the ratios were
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