Correct. The answer is a. Colonial officials perceived the persistence of malaria as rooted in the beliefs and practices of the local populations; Shimomura said that he and his colleagues took steps to “offer hygienic knowledge to the [Taiwanese] people, but they paid no attention to these things and forgot them immediately.”
Incorrect. The answer is a. Colonial officials perceived the persistence of malaria as rooted in the beliefs and practices of the local populations; Shimomura said that he and his colleagues took steps to “offer hygienic knowledge to the [Taiwanese] people, but they paid no attention to these things and forgot them immediately.”