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Duncan, Barrowman and Hoops have reported on the treatment of 2,219 members of labour forces, including dependents, with atebrin alone or with atebrin and plasmoquine. Adequate oiling was maintained on most of the areas inhabited by the labour forces. All original cases treated for further attacks of malaria were reckoned as relapses. Nearly two-thirds of those treated, 1,418 cases, were kept under observation, by Duncan and Barrowman for over 6 months, by Hoops from 3 to ;l 15 months. Although not diagnosed microscopically as malaria the relapse rates in unclassified cases quoted by Hoops