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Venereal Clinics serve their purpose best when they are connection with hospitals or general dispensaries and not as separate units. It is hoped to make further provision for venereal treatment in the near future when more staff will be available.
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Government Dentist.
It is intended that the Government Dentist shall devote his services primarily to those officers whose salaries are below £400 a year and who are entitled to free medical treatment. It is hoped it may be possible to arrange for attention being given to school children and to prisoners who require service which cannot be per- formed by the Gaol Medical Officer.
8. Malaria.
With regard to malaria prevention negotiations are proceeding for the transfer to this Colony from the Federated Malay States of an experienced Malariologist and a skilled assistant. These Officers will form the nucleus of an anti-malaria organisation which will be built up from local material and which will investigate, advise, and in some cases execute the measures necessary for anopheline eradication.
An anopheline survey has been completed at Stanley and an investigation is being conducted at Repulse Bay. The observations so far made appear to indicate that the problems here are very much the same as those in the Federated Malay States and there is every reason to believe that the measures which have proved effective there will be successful here.
9. Training in Hygiene and Preventive Medicine.
I entirely agree with the view that "the importance of adequate training in hygiene and preventive medicine can hardly be overstated." One of the greatest needs of the Colony in this line is a school for instruction of Sanitary Inspectors such as exists at Singapore. At present the Health Staff is insufficient to allow of the proper conduct of such an Institution, but with the advent of additional Health Officers this difficulty will disappear and it will then be possible to arrange for its establishment.
10. Board of Health.
With regard to the suggestion that a Board of Health be formed I have in my recommendations for re-organisation of the Medical and Sanitary Services included a proposal for the formation of a Public Health Advisory Board. This proposal is now under con- sideration by Government.
11. Contribution to Schools of Research.
With regard to the question of contributions to schools for research in tropical diseases the subject should be examined under two headings viz pure research and applied research. Pure research
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