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2. Malay servants living near the Rest-house. Among these there 
were two married couples each with one child. The men both com¬ 
plained of suffering constantly from fever, and one of them had a greatly 
enlarged spleen. Only one of the women complained of fever, and she 
had an enlarged spleen. Both children, who had been born here, had 
high fever and enlarged spleens when I saw them—one of them was 
highly anaemic and cachectic; blood examination revealed parasites 
of malignant tertian malaria in both children. 
3. Chinese landed gentry behind the Rest-house. The Towkay con¬ 
fessed to an occasional bout of fever. His son denied having had 
fever, appeared in excellent health and had no palpable enlargement 
of the spleen. A little daughter was also reported never to have 
suffered, and she had no splenic enlargement. On the other hand the 
coolie of the house was always ill, and he had great enlargement of the 
spleen and looked miserable. The blood of these people was not 
examined. 
4. Chinese shop-people of the village. The village lies about one 
hundred yards from the rest-house as the crow flies, and any day a 
half-dozen of the inhabitants in the houses could be found prostrate 
with fever. There were only two children who had been born here; one 
of these had a palpable spleen. An examination of the blood was made 
in six adult cases, and crescents were found in two. 
5. Tamil estate coolies who lived in lines adjoining the village. The 
manager of the coconut estate on which the Tamils worked, informed 
me that they were always contracting fever, and that they then left 
the sdllage to recover at a spot two or three miles inland. I palpated 
the spleens of eight of the coolies, and found five with definite enlarge¬ 
ment. 
6. European gentleman’s compound 300 yards away from the village. 
The orang puteh 1 himself suffered from a bad attack of fever when he 
first came here, while his servants are constantly down with it. 
7. Malay kampong 2 population. Three houses were visited. In 
two of them the occurrence of a little occasional fever among the children 
was admitted, but in five cases the spleen was not palpable. In the 
third house, under one hundred yards away, two children were down 
1 White man, a term only applied to English here. 
2 Small holding. 
