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REGULATIONS for the guidance of the Protector, Inspector and Medical Officers engaged in carrying out the provisions of the Immigration Laws, in deciding as to the fitness of dwelling-houses proposed to be provided on estates for indentured immigrants.
1. Where on any estate to which it is proposed to allot indentured labourers, there are no buildings which have been approved of and used as dwelling-houses for such labourers, so that it is necessary to erect new buildings for the purpose of such dwelling-houses, the employer shall give to the Protector or Inspector and the District Medical Officer due notice of his intention, either to appropriate certain existing buildings or to build new houses for that purpose, and no building shall be approved of as a dwelling to be assigned to an Indentured Immigrant unless the following conditions are complied with:-
2. The site must be approved of by the Protector or Inspector and a Medical Officer.
3. The grounds shall be smoothed off and sloped towards the drains.
4. The dwellings shall be of one storey with a gallery, one to leeward being preferable.
5. The floors shall be made either-
(a) of banked earth well rammed to a height of at least 9 inches above the
adjacent ground level so as to prevent dampness, or
(b) of well laid boards of an elevation of not less than 2 feet above the
adjacent ground level.
6. The roofs shall be-
(a) shingled, or
(b) boarded or sarked and covered with galvanized iron, or
(c) thatched with palmetto or other durable material to be approved by the
Medical Officer.
7. The walls shall be made of-
(a) boards, or
(b) concrete, or
(c) lath carefully plastered and lime-washed, and must be not less than 8 feet
high from floor to plate.
8. Division walls between the apartments shall be railed or wired at the top, so as to prevent access from one apartment to another over the partition.
9. Permanent ventilation shall be effected by means of a leeward cow mouth gable, jalousies or eaved space, or partly by one of these means or partly by another or others.
10. Each room shall contain a platform or platforms or other suitable arrange- ment to be approved by the Medical Officer, whereon to make a bed or beds for as many inmates as the house is designed to accommodate.
11. The sizes of the partments are regulated by Law 23 of 1879, Section 69, as follows:-
Not less than 50 superficial feet, one adult.
Not less than 120 superficial feet, three single men, or a man and wife and two children.
Approved by the Governor in Privy Council, this 6th day of December, 1894.
S. P. MUSSON,
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(No. 356.) MY LORD,
No. 77.
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1907,* requesting information on the subject of the prevalence in this Colony of ankylostomiasis, I have the honour to transmit, for your Lordship's consideration, the following documents :-
(1) Despatch from the Commissioner of Montserrat forwarding a report by
the Senior Medical Officer of that Presidency.
(2) Copy of despatch from the Commissioner of the Virgin Islands. (3) Despatch from the Administrator of St. Kitts-Nevis forwarding a copy
of a minute by Dr. Fretz, the Senior Medical Officer.
(4) Copy of a despatch from the Administrator of Dominica forwarding a copy of a report by Dr. II. A. Nicholls, C.M.G., Senior Medical Officer.
(5) Report by Dr. Norris, Chief Government Medical Officer, Antigua.
2. In connection with this matter I beg to invite your Lordship's attention to the despatchest of the numbers and dates noted in the margin, which relate to the treatment of ankylostomiasis.
Secretary of State, No. 267, 11.7.98.
Governor, No. 319, 14 6 99.
Officer Administering Government, 502, 8.9.99.
Governor, No. 727, 20.12.99.
Governor, No. 730, 28.12.99
Secretary of State, No. 45, 5.2.00.
3. Your Lordship will notice, from Dr. Nicholls's report of the 9th instant, which is annexed to the despatch from the Administrator of Dominica, that he has
Officer Alministering Government, 563, 27.8.00. offered to write a simple leaflet for general
Secretary of State, No. 209, 11.8.05
circulation in Dominica describing the disease, its danger, cause, and the precau- tions necessary to be taken to prevent its spread, and that Mr. Young proposes to have the leaflet printed and circulated, as suggested. Before taking any further action in this important matter, it may be as well to await the publication of Dr. Nicholls's pamphlet, copies of which could then Le distributed in all the Fresi- dencies. The Government of each Presidency might afterwards be invited to state the steps which they recommend should be adopted in order to give practical effect to the precautionary measures advised by Dr. Nicholls.
SIR,
(No. 152/211.)
I have, &c.,
BICKHAM SWEET-ESCOTT,
Enclosure 1 in No. 77.
Governor.
Commissioner's Office, Montserrat, 18 March, 1908. I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Your Excellency's despatch, No. 51, S.S. 342/26.11.'07, of the 20th ultimo, forwarding a copy of a despatch from the Secretary of State on the subject of ankylostomiasis in the West Indies, and to enclose a report by the Senior Medical Officer of this Presidency embodying the information asked for in the 5th paragraph of the Secretary of State's despatch.
His Excellency
Acting Clerk Privy Council.
SIR,
LEEWARD ISLANDS.
THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received 11 August, 1908.)
Government House, Antigua, 24 July, 1908. WITH reference to Lord Elgin's despatch, No. 342, of the 26th November,
The Governor, &c., &c., &c., Antigua.
I have, &c.,
OLIVER NUGENT,
Acting Commissioner.
Montserrat, 12 March, 1908.
In compliance with His Excellency's letter of 20th February, 1908, I have the honour to report as follows:-
Prevalence of ankylostomiasis.-Ankylostomiasis, no doubt, occurs in Mont- serrat, as in the neighbouring islands, but apparently to no great extent. No investigations have been made as to its prevalence and distribution, as serious cases of anæmia caused by ankylostoma duodenale are rare, so rare, in fact, that the rainy seasons cannot be said to have any effect on the disease.
• No. 130 in Miscellaneous No. 204.
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