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The ratio per 1000 of admissions to Hospital for

Malaria among the British troops during the past five

years has been as follows:-

1910

1911

177.0 125.5

1912 24.0

1913 1914 42.5 BE2.G

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while among the Indian troops the ratio were:-

1910 89.8

1971

1912

1913

1914

31.8 83.2 03.9 143.7

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As explained in previous reports, the "ilitary figures constitute probably the most accurate test of the pro-

gress of our anti-malarial works, since they comprise

that portion of the population which is under constant

medical supervision; even these figures are however

liable to some fluctuation, depending on the healthi-

ness or otherwise of the last station occupied by the

troope, while during the past year, owing to the exi-

gencies of the Military situation, troops have been

stationed in outlying portions of the Colony, There no

anti-malarial measures have hitherto been needed.

The civilian figures are liable to far more violent

fluctuations on account of the changing nature of the

native population; there is a daily ebb and flow of

nearly four thousand Chinese between Hongkong and the

mainland of China, and in addition, the Colony has been

liable of late to periodical inroads of large numbers

of people, who have been disturbed by the political

unrest prevailing in that country. During 1911 and 1912

Rome forty to fifty thousand people sought refuge in

Hongkong during the rebellion which led to the establ-

ishment of the republic, and in 1913 a further influx

of a like number of persone occurred during the monthe

of July, August and September in consequence of renewed

political disturbances.

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