CHAPTER II 



GROWTH OF GENEILM. AND APPLIED SANITATION IN 



THE TROPICS 



Before proceeding to describe in detail the fight 

 against the mosquito, I will in the following chapters 

 deal with those factors which prepared the w^ay for 

 the successful anti-mosquito campaign of to-day. 



In the first place, I deal in this chapter wuth the 

 growth of general sanitation. It stands to reason that 

 our tropical possessions have not stood still as regards 

 general sanitary progress. Just as hygiene and sanitation 

 have made great strides in the older countries, and 

 better means of water supply and sewage disposal have 

 been devised, as well as regulations formulated for 

 dealing with the construction of more healthy houses, 

 town planning, slaughter houses, isolation hospitals, 

 milk and food supply, and the numerous other improve- 

 ments which are naturally grouped under sanitary 

 reforms, so in the tropics steady progress has also 

 been made. There are in many colonies building 

 regulations, excellent isolation and general hospitals, 

 nursing arrangements, slaughter houses, arrangements 

 for scavenging, sewage and niglit soil disposal, storm 



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