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In reply, I am to inform you that the Administration's Department of Health has for some years past been taking active steps to educate the community, and especially that section of it which is engaged in mining and farming at a distance from the settled townships, as to the most efficient methods of guarding against malarial fevers, including "blackwater "fever, and of treating cases which may occur where professional advice is not available.
The principal means adopted for disseminating knowledge on these points are as follows:-
(1) The free circulation of pamphlets on the subject of malaria and its pre- vention. Specimens of these are enclosed, that marked "H" being especially intended for new and inexperienced settlers, to whom it is issued by the Estates Department of the British South Africa Company.
(2) Lectures by Medical Officers of the Administration in country districts
wherever farmers or others can be assembled for the
The purpose. enclosed cutting* from the " Rhodesia Herald" of the 16th October last gives a report of such a meeting, at which an address on black- water fever was given by Dr. Fleming, the Medical Director of the Administration.
(3) Informal advice to individual settlers during the tours of inspection which
are undertaken at frequent intervals by the Medical Director. Although Southern Rhodesia only is referred to in your enquiry, I may mention that a similar policy of familiarising settlers with prophylactic and remedial measures against malaria is pursued by Dr. May, the Principal Medical Officer to the Administration of Northern Rhodesia, whose efforts have met with a satisfactory response from the European population.
The Administration of Southern Rhodesia is now contemplating the importa- tion of quinine in bulk for sale to the public, at cost price, at post offices, police stations, and other suitable places throughout the country, and the Company is already in negotiation with several leading firms of manufacturing druggists in England for the immediate supply of considerable quantites of tablets of acid hydrochlorate and tannate of quinine for resale in this manner.
I am, &c.,
D. E. BRODIE,
Secretary.
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REPORT FOR 1913 ON THE WORK OF THE QUICK LABORATORY, CAMBRIDGE, DATED 22ND DECEMBER, 1913, BY PROFESSOR G. II. F. NUTTALL.
[Published as Appendix III. to [Cd. 7261], March, 1914.]
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