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run, be made. It is now, at any rate in the West 

 Indian Colonies, becoming the rule to inflict penalties 

 if, after due warning from the Sanitary Inspectors, the 

 people have not got rid of stagnant water, or water in 

 which larvje are found. The beneficial effect of this 

 salutary punishment is beginning already to tell, and 

 will in time completely change the health conditions of 

 our tropical possessions. It is most satisfactory to 

 record that, in spite of its novelty, the law is not 

 resented ; all classes see the wisdom of the measure. 



Quini.mtion. — By this is imderstood the systematic 

 taking of quinine in order to destroy or reduce the 

 number of parasites in the blood, and so to modify, 

 ward off or prevent the attack of the disease. It is un- 

 questionably a most wise safeguard. It has been used 

 as an auxiliary preventive with great success in many 

 places, and in British Guiana the Government dispense 

 it at the post offices to the labourers ; and it is sought 

 after and does good. 



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