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Clare (H. L.)- Report of the Surgeon-General for the Nine Months 

 ended the 31st December 1915. -Trinidad and Tobago Covmil 

 Paper no. 133 of 19 16, Port of Spain 191G, 162 pp. [Received 

 28th November 191G.] 



Disinfection of premises for vermin was carried out by s]5raying the 

 inner walls, floor and bedding with a mixture of cyllin, soft soap and 

 kerosene. The total number of rats and mice caught during the nine 

 months amounted to 7,661 rats and 3,660 mice. The former nunaber 

 shows a falling off during the past six years. Poisoned bait was laid in 

 stores, but in residences the use of traps was preferred. An important 

 anti-rat measure requires all refuse and waste food to be kept securely 

 covered in proper receptacles on private premises and es])ecially in 

 hotels and restaurants. The landing of rats in packages of imported 

 goods from lighters requires the adoption of preventive measures. 

 With regard to mosquito prevention, filling, draining and oiling 

 measures have been undertaken on low-lying lands in the vicinity of 

 Port of Spain, and considerable improvement has taken place in the 

 drainage of the few areas within the city limits referred to in the report 

 for the previous year. The number of Sfegomyia and Ctdex has been 

 kept as low as possible by regular attention to the usual breeding 

 places. Prosecutions for breach of the yellow fever regulations were 

 laid against 102 householders, leading to 101 convictions. 



Hoffman (F. L.). The Sanitary Progress and Vital Statistics of 



HRwm.—Prmlential Press, NewarJc, N.Y., U.S.A., 191G, 82 pp., 

 1 diagram, 40 tables, 2 charts. 



Bubonic plague appeared for the first time in Hawaii in December 

 1899. During the 14 years from 1902-15, 198 deaths occurred, but at 

 the present time the disease has been practically eradicated, no death 

 from this cause having been reported since August 1914. The rat 

 campaign throughout the islands has been continued in an effective 

 mamier, the last plague-infected rat being caught in April 1910. 



The local mosquitos are represented by Culex pipicns, C. fatigans, 

 Stegomyia fasciata, and S. scuteUaris. S. fasciata is said to be a recent 

 introduction and is now cjuite abundant in some places. It has been 

 supposed that S. scuteUaris is connected with the periodical influenza 

 which occurs in the islands, but this is considered very doubtful. The 

 efforts which are being made throughout the islands to reduce the 

 number of mosquitos to a minimum are apparently productive of good 

 results. 



A bibliography of 42 reports dealing with Hawaii is given. 



Y Schmidt (M.). Injury to Livestock by Simdium columbaezense in 

 Hungary. — Internat. Rev. Science d Practice Agric, Mthly. Bull. 

 Agric. Intell. & PI. Dis., Rome, vii, no. 7, July 1916, pp. 987-989. 

 [Abstract from Allatorvosi Lapok, Budapest, xxxix, nos. 12 & 13, 

 18th & 25th March 1916, pp. 83-85, 89-91.] [Received 

 30th November 1916.] 



The subject-matter of this paper, which deals with injury to live- 

 stock by Simulium columhaczense, has already been abstracted from 

 another journal [see this Review, Scr. B, iv, p. 15S]. 



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