'The sanitation section of the report also deals with the malaria problem' as. follows:—routine work covered the usual field and included house house inspection, the drainage of low-lying land and the olling, oF abolition, of stagnant water" and wherever pos-of mosquito were sent to the pathological laboratory throughout the season for purposes of Identification in connec ion with the incidence of anopheles. or tal 148 positives, the majority 1 originated in the Western and Eastern districts.
Mosquitoes were ain found breed. ing in stagnant water inthe vase. ments and/or foundation rotts of various large buildings, also in the hollow bases of standards carrying electric light and' telephone wires, but by the end of the year the majority were led: in with cement thus eliminating a definite nuisance, Mosquitoes were also found breeding the street gullies during the: latter part of the season, due to the high tides prevailing at that time. Al these gullies were oiled oF spray-with Ginsburg's larvicide weekly.
Owing to the Jarge number of malaria cases occurring in one of the large mills in the Eastern district, special precautions had to be taken in the neighbourhood, all anophelene. breeding places being treated and mosquito fish placed in all the sure rounding rice elds,
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