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in carrying out Bentley's recommendations for the prevention of 

 malaria in Bombay City. Two other investigations — one in 

 Sind and the other in the Canara district — are also in progress 

 in the Bombay Presidency, and for these a grant of Rs. 21,380 

 has been made. 



In the United Provinces malarial surveys have been under- 

 taken in the towns of Saharunpur, Nagina, Kosi, Kairana, and 

 Meerut, and recommendations have been made for each place. 

 In Saharunpur, Nagina, and Kosi an active anti-mosquito 

 campaign is now being carried out with the aid of a grant of 

 Rs. 1,80,000 from the Government of India, but the schemes for 

 Meerut and Kairana were still under consideration when I left 

 India in April last. 



In the Punjab Rs. 35,000 has been allotted for anti-malarial 

 measures at Palwal, which lies in a specially malarious tract. 

 The list of work in progress is a fairly satisfactory one, but it is 

 the intention of Government to extend their operations to other 

 places as soon as funds and men are available. In Bengal the 

 conditions are very different from those in other parts of India, 

 and Stewart and Proctor have shown that in Lower Bengal 

 there is a close connection between over-vegetation and intensity 

 of malaria — in which respect they are in close agreement with 

 the findings of Watson in Malaya. At the suggestion of the 

 Government of India, the Government of Bengal has taken the 

 matter up, and a grant of Rs. 50,000 has been allotted to them 

 for carrying out an extensive experiment of jungle-clearing in 

 the vicinity of inhabited areas. Should this experiment prove 

 successful we shall have at our disposal one method, at least, of 

 improving the conditions obtaining in small villages, specially 

 those in the deltaic area. Indeed, I am of opinion that if with 

 systematic clearing of jungle we combine the provision of a pure 

 water supply, water -tidiness, the preservation of mosquito 

 destroyers, and the distribution of quinine, it may be possible to 

 achieve wonderful results in rural areas where financial con- 

 siderations and the physical conditions render elaborate drainage 

 schemes practically impossible. For this reason I have noted 

 with much pleasure the formation at Jessore of a Coronation 

 Anti-malarial Society which intends to work in villages on lines 

 very similar to those indicated above, and I congratulate Rai 

 Jadunath Mazumdar Bahadur on its inception. It is yet another 

 sign of that sanitary awakening to which I have alluded above, 



