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The absence of such makes life in the hot weather there very trying. It is 79 miles distant from the nearest town, Lucknow, where there is an hotel, and the quickest trains take five hours each way. It would be difficult, therefore, living at this distance, even if I motored in and out, to make myself acquainted with the Faizabad officials, or to exercise an efficient supervision over the new work.
4. It is the custom for Indian officials, in so far as their work permits, to carry out their duties on the plains during the cold weather from November to March, and to migrate to the hills for the hot weather and the rains from April to October, for which purpose each Presidency has its own sanitary station or stations. Your officials are not so favourably situated, owing to the nature of their work, and if I am transferred to Fyzabad, it will be necessary for me, so long as the work requires it, to remain in Fyzabad the whole year round, through fair weather and foul. Under these circumstances, I feel sure that the Secretary of State will recog- nise that I should be properly housed, and live under favourable conditions, if I am to maintain my health and discharge my duties efficiently. I think I need hardly add that the establishment of a new undertaking brings with it greater worry and calls for the exercise of greater energy than if one is conducting an Agency which has been already established and is running in a groove.
5. Benares, which was the alternative centre suggested as a Central Agency, has one or two hotels, and is situated 130 miles from Fyzabad and nearer Calcutta. It is more civilised and suitable for the residence of a European than Fyzabad is. There would be no difficulty in obtaining land and constructing a depôt there on similar terms to Fyzabad, and a house for the Agent to rent could, I think, be found, but I do not consider it such a convenient centre for the coolies to congregate in, and the preference of Fyzabad over Benares as a Central Agency has already been submitted to the Government of India for their approval.
6. If the Secretary of State has decided that land shall be leased and a depôt built in Fyzabad, it will certainly be a dead loss if circumstances necessitate its being shut down; but if a house is built for the Agent it can always be realised, and with the scarcity of suitable houses for Europeans in Fyzabad, the probability is there will be no loss, or, if any, only a trivial one.
I enclose copy of a letter which I have received from Mr. T. A. H. Way, Deputy Commissioner of Fyzabad, in answer to my enquiry, and from which it will be observed that there are no houses at present available, and that he considers if a house was built there would be no difficulty in disposing of it afterwards without loss.
7. Emigration work in India is of a disagreeable nature for its officials to perform, and its duties have not been rendered more pleasant or easier by the doubt and uncertainty now hanging over it, and I feel that, in asking the Secretary of State that I may be accommodated, as regards my private life, in a manner befitting the head of a Department, Mr. Harcourt will not consider me unreasonable in the request I am now making, more especially as my wife is living with me in India. I think, if the facts I have above enumerated had been realised in the Colonial Office, that the question of the Agent's house would have been differently viewed.
DEAR MR. MARSDEN,
I have, &c.,
A. MARSDEN,
Government Emigration Agent for Trinidad, Fiji, and Jamaica.
Enclosure in No. 129.
Fyzabad, 21st June, 1913. In reply to your letter of 19th June, I regret that it is quite impossible for you to obtain a house in Fyzabad Civil Lines at present. There are not enough houses for the officials who are already here. In my opinion, in the event of your depart- ment building a house for you, there would be no difficulty whatever in subsequently selling it without loss, if circumstances render it necessary.
Indian gentlemen living in the city are daily realising more and more the advan- tages, from the point of view of health, of living in a detached house in the Civil Lines, and though they have not enough enterprise to build new bungalows for themselves,
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they are eager to buy up bungalows built by or for Europeans, and such bungalows always find purchasers.
This tendency will increase rather than decrease in the future.
A. Marsden, Esq.,
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SIR,
Government Emigration Agent, 21, Garden Reach,
Calcutta.
No. 130.
Yours sincerely.
T. A. H. WAY.
CROWN AGENTS to COLONIAL OFFICE. (Received 19 July, 1913.)
Whitehall Gardens, London, S.W., 18th July, 1913. WITH reference to your letter, No. 15653/1913, of the 15th of May last,* on the subject of the treatment of ankylostoma infection upon coolie ships, I have the honour to enclose copies of two reports submitted to us by Dr. Miley, the Hon. Secretary of the Committee of Surgeons-Superintendent, setting forth the opinions expressed by the surgeons in the matter at the meeting held by them at this office on the 11th of June last.
I have, &c.,
GENTLEMEN,
H. MARTIN,
for Crown Agents.
Enclosure 1 in No. 130.
Ankylostomes.
London, June, 1913.
WITH reference to the information asked for in your letter, M/Coolies, dated 15th May, 1913, in regard to the treatment of ankylostoma infection on coolie ships, I have the honour to lay before you the opinions expressed by the surgeons at their meeting on 11th June, 1913, on the following questions:-
Question.
(I.) To what extent treatment with thymol or beta-naphthol has been re- sorted to in recent years?
(II.) Whether the drugs are usually used in combination and whether they are now used separately?
(III.) Can it be definitely stated to what extent, if at all, and in what per- centage of cases, treatment with thymol has proved deleterious to patients, whether suffering from ankylostome infection or not so suffering?
(IV.) Whether it is possible, without general compulsory treatment such as was advocated by Dr. Fonceca, to secure adequate and effective treatment
on
Answer.
(I.) It has been the custom with all the surgeons present to use these drugs during the voyage in cases where it has been necessary, but not in a routine
(II.) These drugs are always used separately in their experience.
manner.
(III.) The surgeons present at the meeting have only treated infected cases with thymol and their experience of deleterious results has been as follows:- 1 death, 2 cases of collapse and several cases of vertigo, palpitation, &c., show- ing absorption of the drug.
As no records have been kept of the number treated, they are unable to state what the percentage has been.
(IV.) The surgeons are still of opinion that to treat coolies en masse in a ship is impracticable, but consider that some selected cases may be treated on board.
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