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of organised endeavour against disease. Such practical 

 endeavours are worth infinitely more than the dismal 

 accounts of abortive antimalarial experiments which 

 are sent to us from time to time from India, and 

 which only demonstrate the want of administrative 

 and practical ability of the medical officers who 

 undertake them ; for the public has now overwhelming 

 evidence that where antimalarial measures are under- 

 taken by practical men, amelioration does and must 

 take place. 



ANTIMALARIAL CAMPAIGNS IN THE EAST INDIES 



ANTIMALARIAL CAMPAIGN IN KLANG AND PORT 



SWEH^ENHAM 



Taking Travers and Watson's figures for Port 

 Swettenham and Klang in the Federated INlalay 

 States, we find that at Port Swettenham the area to 

 be dealt with was about 110 acres, low-lying and 

 swampy. In 1901 draining and filling-in operations 

 were undertaken. 



In Klang, the area affected covered 332 acres, 

 swampy and bush : drainage and clearing effected. 



Results in Klang and Port Swettenham : Deaths 

 due to malaria in 1901, 368 ; in 1905, 45. In sur- 

 rounding districts where no measures Avere taken the 

 corresponding figures are 2C6 deaths in 1901 and 

 351 in 1905. 



In 1901 Government employees at both places 

 numbered 176, and the number of days' leave granted 

 for malarial sickness totalled 1,026. In 1904 the em- 

 ployees numbered 281, and the number of days' leave 



