The control of this zone by the health department brought about a progress sive improvement of sanitation in that district, notably by the daily removal of ordures, and house garbage. Establishments are also made to comply to sanitary prescriptions.—Straw-hut-dwellers were compelled to put up their huts in such a manner as to allow cleaning-up space.
Burials and coffin storage were prohibited and this prevented the zone from becoming an immense cemetery.
Prophylactic measures included the chlorination of 1,077 native wells. Vaccination against cholera of 122,692 persons, has prevented the spread of the epidemic in the zone, only 116 suspect or positive cases having been noted for the year. Anti-smallpox vaccinations are still being dispensed, the report concludes,
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