It is true that much of this big and successful organisation's results are not published; but on the other hand, financial grants can sometimes be obtained for schemes for " general sanitary improve- ment/' whereas grants for specific anti-malarial measures might be refused. Plague.?Plague was responsible for 80,943 deaths during the year, a very marked increase 011 the four previous years; though almost insignificant when com- pared with the 1905, 1907, and 1911 epidemic years.
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