Where
observed
owloon Royal
bservatory.
1.025
January
443
15. Victoria is the only town and the figures are given in
the foregoing Table.
16. Monthly table of rainfall.
2.390
February
6.945
March
2.175
April
9.300
| Kay
16.035
June
15.050
July
10.565
14.570
September August
3.560
0.740
1.385
November
December October
83.730
Total in inches
17.(a) No further legislation has been introduced to prohibit
the breeding of mosquitoes; a copy of the byelaw in force was sent with the Report for 1910. During the past year
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437 notices were served calling upon householders to cease the breeding of mosquitoes in their premises, but it was not necessary to institute any prosecutions in connection therewith.
(b). It has not yet been possible to make any systematic spleen examinations of children outside the various Hos- pitale, for reasons given in the previous reports. Kala-Azar does not exist in the Colony.
(c) Filarial disease is uncommon in Hongkong; frequent
blood examinations are made in all the Hospitals in
search of these parasites.
(d). The training of nullahs in the vicinity of the City
is still in progress and during 1913 the sum of $18,140
was spent on this work. The total length of trained
nullahs and cement channels built since the commencement
of anti malarial works in the Colony is 11.6 miles.
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