Administration Report of the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services for 1926 Ceylon

HAVE the honour to submit for the information of His Excellency the Governor and for transmission to the Eight Honourable the Secretary of State the medical report on the health and sanitary conditions of Ceylon for the year ending December t11 1926 together with the returns. [...] There was an outbreak in the Northern Province during the second quarter of the year and another in the Province of Uva during the beginning of the first quarter of the year. [...] (b) Sanitary Branch of the Department of Medical and Sanitary Services.-The following is an account of the work done by the Sanitary Branch of the Department of Medical and Sanitary Services :- (1) Work at Kirillapone.-The Sanitary Branch dealt with an outbreak of malaria at Kirillapone near Wellawatta during the early part of the year among the labour force in the Municipal metal quarries and the [...] lnfectioninmost of the cases was traced to Colombo and the spread was clue i ue to the ignorance and the indifference evinced by the inmates of the houses and the failure on the part of the vedaralas who treated the cases to notify the illness. [...] The preventive measures adopted included the proclamation of the Karaiyoor area as a diseased locality the isolation of the patients and the segregation of contacts the chlorination of infected wells and the systematic examination of contacts for the detection of carriers.