The Archive · 1941

Sanitation Division

Vaccination Campaign—14,677 vaccitations against smallpox were carried out as against 29081 for May, 14,085 were done at the 1 Central BHLO., mainly for obtaining travelling certificates.

Cholera Inoculation—98.043 inoculations were done as against 81,468 for May. A slight increase is recorded but figures are so far lower {han the corresponding period last year.

Plague Prevention Work.—3,870 rats were trapped and 990 were found dead and sent to the Laboratory for examination. No Plague was report-

Fly Prevention Work has continued as a routine with the abolition of fly breeding places, burying excremental matters, burning refuse and treatment with larvicides. Fly "larval traps have been put down in large numbers and much success is record. ed in the enormous numbers of larval hatching which ere destroyed twice weekly.

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