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ALBERT

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

A MALARIA CAMPAIGN.

GOVERNMENT URGED TO UNDERTAKE COMPREHENSIVE

: SCHEME.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1925.

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It was work that should be going on all the time, and its importance could not be over estimated; There was no need to spend large sums of money on it at present, made for putting anti-malarial work on a sounder footing than it

A DIALOGUE BETWEEN CONNOISSEURS malaria campaign. The meeting but at least preparations might be tion, the Chairman said, was not

He. Where are you going?

She.Why To Albert, of course, where we are sure to get the finest French Pastry and the best cooking.

De. That is so! His Fronch Cakes at $1.00 per dozen, bie Maderie Cakes, his Big Cakos, his Ice-Cremina (com- bined with excellent cuisine) are made exclusively with the butter, milk and cream of the Dairy Farm Co., Ltd.

She. Quite so! and he also has a new menu compris. ing fifty now dishes which you can enjoy any time from 10.30 a.m. to Midnight,

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should be safe. The mortality lie reported the prevalence of mas- from malaria every week was be-quitoes, the premises were inspect. tween 20 and 30. It was always ed and action taken. The same a serious disease and had been the action was taken whenever a cuse cause of many a man having to of malaria was reported from A cense work in the tropics. Other Government Hospital; the ordinary Colonies and tropical countries process of the law went on, and Sanitary Board Discussion. had undertaken anti-malarial work in the last resort prosecution be. At yesterday's meeting of the they lag behind them?

with great success-why should fore the Magistrate. A consider- Sanitary Bourd, Dr. J. C. Macgown

able number of nuisances were re- introduced a resolution, which was

ported and abated daily, the total number for last year being 436. unanimously accepted, urging the Government Lo undertake

Breeding on Crown Land. thorough and comprehensive anti-

With regard to breeding on Crown land, the posi

mosquitoes was presided over by Mr. N.

quite so clear. The Sanitary De- Smith, and other members present

partment had, by custom, for a were the Hon. Mr. H. T. Greasy, Dr. W. V. M. Koch, Mr. C. G.

long time, taken certain measures. Alabaster, K.C., Dr. J. C. Macgown,

A Hardy Perennial,

In the urban districts proper, the Mr. S. W. Tso, Mr. Wong Kwonged the subject an, a hardy peren districts were always on the look- Dr. Koch, in seconding, describ- Inspectors in charke of health tin, Dr. W. W. Pearse (Medical nial. During his period of service out for potential breeding places Offeer of Health) and the Secreon the Board it had been discuss on. Crown land in the 'course; of tary (Mr. G. S. Kennedy Skipton)d at least three times and he had their rounds. These they report- with Mr. D. Davica (assistant indiented the Secretary).

means by which ed and action was taken. Similar- malaria might be diminished, if ly, the public very often reported Prevalence of Malaria..

not abolished. He doubted whe- such breeding places. Apart from Dr. J. C. MacGown, pursuant, lo ther the Colony could very well the district inspectors, they had a notice, proposed: That this Board respectfully recommends sively as it should be done at the and the Peak purely on anti-mos- undertake, a campaign as exten- small gang working in Victoria that the Government take such steps as are possible to undertakepartment and the Public Works De-place on a systematic programme, present time. The Sanitary De- quito work. They did the whole thorough and comprehensive

partment had been doing their best looking out for breeding places, anti-malarial campaign." His rea-i sons for bringing forward the mosquito, but if they wanted to in a small way to eradicate the motion, Dr. Macgown said, were two. Firstly, there had been a

undertake it on a large scale, then, considerable increase in the nut Director of Public Works, they as he was reminded by a former ber of cases of malaria this would have to get into China. He autumn, and many cases of a very did not suppose that under present

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ing a little filling occasionally and oiling where it was expedient, do- reporting to the Public Works De- partment any bigger work required. Kowloon, which was perhaps the As to the outlying districts of

most serious locality with its rapid

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Herious nature. There was no circumstances they could venture expansion of urban population, Queen's Rd. Co.K

ponsible for anti-malarial work. The Sanitary Department could deal with mosquitoes ag

notification of malaria in this so far afield. There was no doubt, they had for some eight of nine Colony, but from his own ux- perience and that of other practi-prevalent in the Colony, and was under a European Inspector. They however, that malaria was very months another gang at work tioners, it was certain that the responsible for great mortality had been doing nothing but oiling disease had been more prevalent and economic loss. lately than for a long time past.

Malaria was pools. In that district, the Chair- Secondly, there seemed to be no ing classes, who Dr. Koch said he would agree that it was principally very common among the labour man thought members of the Board one department in the Colony res- might describe as the reservoir of an engineering matter. In Febru ways and means of combatting the to read out a list of the principal malaria. The better classes hadary of this year he was authorisert activities of the mosquito, but drainage works that had been done these were not

work was being continued. The available to the in that locality, and no doubt that

important point, was that the.. that campaign to be effective, Dr. tor of Public Works had definitely If a campaign was undertaken, Drainage Authority and the Direc- Koch said, must be directed by one laid it down as an axiom that the man, who should be in sole au abolition of water was the first

But such thority. would cost an enormous sum of new locality, Whether it was al- campaign consideration in opening out any

lower classes, who were riddled with the disense.

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nuisance. The P. W. D. did some- thing in the way of drainage, and the Botanical and Forestry Depart ment cut down brushwood. But there was a lack of cohesion be tween these departments. The P. C. M. O. was responsible to the Government for health matters, but he had nothing to do with the Sanitary Board. It was impas- sible to expect the Medical Officer money; he estimated that it would ways possible to carry that out to of Health to deal with a very big of dollars, and whether it could him to say, but it had been accept- into ten or twelve lakhs its final conclusion it was not for job.

The most effective part of anti-which he would not care to answer. building sites were sold, all the be undertaken now was a questioned as an axiom that before new malarial work consisted in, doing At the same time, he thought Dr. standing water had to be got rid away with mosquito breeding Macgown's reminder was timely.of. grounds. Mosquitoes must breed in water, and if there were

They could, however,..do something

The South of the Island. pools of water for them to breed could go steadily on in the hope he wished to refer to was on the and every little helped. Work

The third portion of Crown land in, there would no mosquitoes. Training of nullahs and drainage

of effecting some amelioration. South of the Island. There they should precede building. In many plan on behalf of the

Mr. Wong Kwong-tin put in a had had a Sanitary inspector for places building had overtaken and

vegetable the last 18 months, stationed at preceded anti-malarial work,at mentioning that to sprinkle their time was occupied in anti-malarial growers in the New Territories, Aberdeen. A great deal of his Repulse Bay for instance, Kow- loon would not be reasonably safe destroy the crops and would thus

zardens with kerosene would work. He had a regular pro- from malaria till all wet cultivado away with the main source of which he oiled, and he used 35 gal- of pools and nullahs grammè

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tion was done away with and nuk lahs were trained right up to the hills-work that should be accom- plished gradually. The staff to do this would indude engineers, necessarily.

Not a Medical Problem..

vegetable supply for the Colony

Sanitary Board's Work. the resolution to the careful con- The Chairman, in commending

sideration of the Board, expressed a doubt as to whether the present was a good time to ask for a very

It was not essentially a medical expensive campaign. Indeed, the problem. Differentiation of types seconder's words suggested that of mosquitoes could be done by an it should not be so much of 2 entomologist, bat he doubted whe-campaign as a steady warfare, ex ther that was necessary, as the tending, perhaps, beyond their anopheline mosquito was prevalent all over the Colony and might easily be present in any pool of

water.

A malarial survey by engineers would certainly help matters. A far as the New Territories were concerned Dr. Macgown did not see how they could be dealt with as long

wet eulti- vation went QR. People who lived

in the country must take their own precautions. I a man built a house in the country where no anti-malarial work had been "done, it was his own look out if he got malaria, but people living in the town and outskirts

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tons of oil a week, if anything could be gathered from that. He amount of time at Shek-O although had also been putting in a certain

in due course that work would. be handed over to the Shek-0 Club.

ing, the Sanitary Inspectors did. As regards undergrowth, clear- that as regular routine, and apart areas, where there were valuable from that there were certain shrubs which were looked after by the Botanical Department. The Chairman proceeded to out- line, for the benefit of the mem-mary of the steps that had been That, he thought, was a sum- bers of the Board, the measures taken. He did not mention the that are at present taken to com-Territories because the Board did hat mosquito hreeding in the not function there, but no doubt Colony. He pointed out that mos when this metion went to Govern- mises were very definitely within naturally consider the New Ter- quitoes breeding on private pre- ment, the Government would the province of the Sanitary De- ritories together with the rest of partment. There were by-laws on the problem, though the New Ter- the subject, with which members ritories was obviously a very diffi Inspectors, as they went of the Board were familiar. The cult question. He did not think house cleaning, noticed a

round it was necessary for him to say number of such nuisances, report- the Board's motion.

large anything more than to commend ed them and action was Similarly, if a member of the pub-ing and was carried unanimously. The motion was put to the meet-

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