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 TRANSACTIONS OF THE SOCIETY OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE. JULY, 1914. Volume VII. Nos. 7 and 8. Proceedings of a Meeting of the Society on Friday, June 19th, 1914. Surgeon-General Sir E. HAVELOCK CHARLES, G.C.V.O., I.M.S.(R.), President, in the Chair. MOSQUITO WORK IN CEYLON. BY Major S. P. JAMES, M.D. (Lond.), D.P.H., l.M.S.

Three years ago the Government of India, having in view the risk that the opening of the Panama Canal might be followed by the introduction of yellow fever into Asia, initiated a series of enquiries and investigations with the object of devising timely measures to guard against any threatened outbreak of that disease. Their example was followed by the Governments of several British Colonies, and in January, 1913, after my return from a study of yellow fever in Central and South America, I was engaged by the Government of Ceylon to make a Stegomyia survey of her seaports, to study malaria in certain parts of the island, and to assist in training a body of men who would afterwards be employed as sanitary inspectors in her municipalities. Our work was an