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have been caught, and no " fevers " are reported among the native 

 police or in the village of 1,500 population. Thus the distribution of 

 Anopheles conforms accurately to the history of the outbreak of 

 malaria, as, after exhaustive search, I was unable to find one breeding 

 pool with Anopheles larvae round Sakiwan. 



3. MEN'S MARRIED QUARTERS, KENNEDY ROAD. 



A magnificent new building, only opened a year ago in July. The 

 rooms airy and all modern conveniences, little or no malaria in the 

 district. Unfortunately the builders left rubbish and. pools lying 

 around the house. In one of these artificial ponds were hundreds of 

 larvae of Anopheles within fifty yards of this building. There were no 

 Anopheles in the surrounding streams when I examined them in 

 August. After a time these pools were filled up and drained, but be- 

 fore that hundreds of adult Anopheles must have developed and were 

 then living in the bush ; they were secured in and around the building. 

 Note what occurred. When the Anopheles were driven from their 

 breeding pools they took the next best pools, and I found them in 

 December in the streams around, in pools which I had examined three 

 months before with a negative result. Then gradually the children 

 began to have feverish attacks, and the inhabitants of the houses 

 around complained, the Military Women's Hospital became crowded 

 with patients, until within six months of the opening of this building 

 out of 73 women and children 33 per cent, had fever, of the children 

 under 10 years 50 per cent., and unfortunately there were 3 deaths to 

 record ; and in a few selected cases among the children the blood 

 under microscopic examination contained parasites. 



4. POKFULAM. 



The French Fathers sixteen years ago bought property for schools 

 and training colleges, which four years later, owing to almost con- 

 tinuous attacks of fever and the sad loss of life therefrom, they had to 

 relinguish at considerable loss and remove to another site about half 

 a mile from the old place ; again, in another building occupied by 

 Madame Musso 300 yards further west, fever has been common. In 

 the present building occupied by the Fathers and 150 children they 

 have had little or no malaria ; and on the most careful examination I 

 was unable to discover one larva of Anopheles^ while in and around 



