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No. 42.
MINUTES OF MEETING OF THE SLEEPING SICKNESS BUREAU MANAGING COMMITTEE HELD AT THE COLONIAL OFFICE ON FRIDAY, 17TH DECEMBER, 1909, AT 4.30 P.M.
PRESENT:
Sir J. WEST RIDGEWAY (in the Chair).
Dr. J. ROSE BRADFORD.
Mr. G. R. CLARK.
Sir P. MANSON.
Mr. READ.
Mr. PARKINSON (Acting Secretary).
Dr. BAGSHAWE also attended.
1. The minutes* of the last meeting were approved; but Dr. Bagshawe called attention to the fact that the deficit with which the Committee would be faced at the end of the financial year would, supposing all liabilities of the Bureau should be paid up within the year, probably amount to £100, not £20 as stated in the last paragraph but one of the minutes. At the same time, he did not anticipate that there would be any need to make all the payments before the end of March.
2. The financial statement for the year 1909-10† was examined and accepted. 3. The estimate for the year 1910-1911, furnished by the Director of the Bureau, was as follows:-
Director's salary
Salary of Librarian
Salary of typewriter
Miscellaneous expenses:-
Furniture
Telephone
Printing and stationery
Postage
Sundries
41400
97
III. ANKYLOSTOMIASIS.
No. 43.
THE SECRETARY OF STATE to THE GOVERNORS. [Answered by Nos. 45, 47, and 52.]
(Ceylon. No. 53.)
(Federated Malay States.
No. 28.)
(Straits Settlements. No. 30.)
Downing Street, 4 February, 1909.
(Despatch in identical terms with No. 84, in Miscellaneous, No. 224.)
16705
No. 44.
WINDWARD ISLANDS: ST. LUCIA.
THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received 17 May, 1909.)
£
550
(No. 77.)
Forwarded.
182
78
£
s. d.
0 0
19457
7 10 0
335 0 0
36 0
SIR,
Grenada, 30th April, 1909. RALPH WILLIAMS,
Governor.
Total
6 10 0
390
£1,200
This Estimate was accepted by the Committee. But it was pointed out by Mr. Read that the Treasury had been approached, and that the Colonial Office hoped that permission would be obtained for the postal communications of the Sleeping Sickness Bureau to be franked, thus effecting an appreciable saving of expenditure.
Reference was also made to the correspondence now taking place with the India Office, on the subject of enlarging the resources of the Bureau and the scope of its work.
The Committee discussed the possibility of increasing the funds at its disposal, and it was decided that
4.
(i.) The Rhodes Trustees should be approached in consideration of the danger
of the spread of sleeping sickness through Rhodesia; and
(ii.) The Transvaal Government, in view of the importance of the Bureau's work as affecting labour supply in that Colony. Sir West Ridgeway kindly offered to communicate privately with General Botha on the subject.
Dr. Bagshawe stated that the Spanish Government had taken action in the matter of sleeping sickness, by sending out a Commission to Fernando Po. It was decided that the Bureau should communicate with the Spanish Government through the Foreign Office as to an exchange of publications.
5. Dr. Bagshawe raised the question of presenting copies of the bibliography to the Soudan Government. The Committee agreed that this was desirable, but the number of copies required was left for further consideration, that Dr. Bagshawe might have time to make certain enquiries.
40.
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(Saint Lucia. No. 57.)
Government House, 14th April, 1909.
I HAVE the honour to report on the measures adopted or projected for giving effect to the requirements of the Secretary of State's despatch, Grenada (General), No. 139, of the 17th December last.*
2. A leaflet has been prepared by the Medical Board and printed for distribu- tion on the prevention of ankylostoma anæmia.
A circular has been addressed to the employers of labour asking them to co-operate by providing latrines of the description mentioned for the use of their labourers in future, and by turning over the earth to a depth of six or eight inches in any place hitherto used for the deposit of excreta on the surface of the ground, so as to effectually bury any ova or worms which may be thereon.
Dr. Nicholls has delivered a lecture on the subject illustrated by lantern pictures in Castries, and it is hoped that it may be found possible for him to repeat it elsewhere.
3. The Medical Board has been asked to draft regulations under the Board of Health Ordinance, 1874, for the consideration of that Board.
Instructions have been given for a supply of beta-napthol to be provided at all the dispensaries (11 in number).
The Executive Council has considered the question of providing Inspectors for the enforcement of the projected regulations, and it has been decided that the least expensive method will be to train selected members of the police force to carry out these inspections as has already been done by Dr. King, the Health Officer, in the case of inspection for mosquito destruction. The controlling influence of a European non-commissioned officer is very desirable, and it is hoped that the services of the one applied for in my despatch, No. 138, of 13th October, 1908,† will soon be avail- able, as the force has been short handed since the promotion of Sergeant-Major Gray to be Keeper of the Gaol.
The additional expense for travelling, &c., is not likely to exceed £100 or £150 a year for which a vote will have to be taken.
I had placed on the draft Estimates for 1909-10 provision for microscopes to aid the medical officers in diagnosing the disease, but this was struck out on the receipt of instructions that the Estimates must be passed on the lines of those of last year.
4. I do not think it would be necessary to incur the expense of employing an
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