34 Beport of the Bilharzia Mission in Egypt, 1915 



the railway embankment the canal continues alongside the line 

 for about one hundred yards. This reach is much frequented by 

 women for the purpose of washing clothes (fig. 4). The canal 

 now skirts the houses, shops and cafes which front the railway 

 station, and is open to constant contamination (fig. 5). A short 

 wooden bridge crosses the canal at the station (fig. 6). Here the 

 stream bends towards the centre of the village and forms a wide 



Fig. 11, — A cul-de-sac iu Marg caual dry during the '■ rotations." 



shallow pool (fig. 7). Turning northwards again between two rows 

 of houses, and with paths on either bank (fig. 8), it laces through 

 a date-palm grove (fig. 9) and reaches the open country, where it 

 rapidly diminishes (fig. 10) and ultimately divides into a number of 

 small canals supplying the individual fields. 



Incidence of Bilharziosis in Marg. 



In the historical section reference was made to the frequent 

 occurrence of bilharziosis among the French troops during the 

 invasion of Egypt in 1799-1801, and it is of interest that the little 

 village Marg was the site of one of the battles in 1799. 



