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for fifteen doses of two grains each, to be given daily by the schoolmaster.
(3) The allotment of twenty-five pounds to the Public Works Department for dealing experimentally with the marsh at Akhyritou.
The spleen-census was most ably planned and directed by Dr. Cleveland, and the marsh at Akhyritou was excellently dealt with by Mr. Nicolls, Director of Public Works, and Mr. Giles of that Department; and I was informed that the issue of free quinine would be carried out as far as possible at an early date.
Before I left the Island, I submitted to the Chief Secretary an interim statement as to the probable direction which my recom- mendations would take after consultation with the High Commissioner in England.
4. Acknowledgments.—I should like to take the opportunity to express my warm thanks for the assistance and kindness always rendered to me in Cyprus by the officials and by everyone else whom I met. They are specially due to His Excellency Sir Hamilton Goold-Adams; to Captain Orr, Acting High Com- missioner; to Major W. N. Bolton, Acting Chief Secretary; to Dr. R. A. Cleveland, Chief Medical Officer; to E. H. D. Nicolls, Esq., Director of Public Works; to the Commissioners of all the districts; to the Government Analyst, W. Francis, Esq.; to Dr. Patrick and all the District and Rural Medical Officers with whom I came in contact; to the Mayors of Nicosia, Limassol and Paphos to the Qadi of Cyprus and to The Most Venerable the Archbishop of Cyprus. My thanks are also due to Mr. A. Fiddian, of the Colonial Office, for having collected much valuable literature for me; and to Mr. H. C. Lukach for giving me valuable informa- tion on many points. I should like also to thank the members of the clubs at Nicosia and at Famagusta for their personal kindness to me.
II. THE MALARIA DATA OF CYPRUS.
5. General Data.
Area of Cyprus.-3,584 square miles (9,282 sq. km.). Population at the census of 1911:—
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Births Reported in 1911-8,843.
Birth-rate per cent. of population-323 per cent., as compared with 2-85 per cent, in seventeen British Colonies.
Deaths Reported in 1911-4,686.
Death-rate per cent. of population-171 per cent., as compared with 2:37 per cent. in the seventeen British Colonies-suggesting imperfect registration.
Total Admissions to Hospital in 1911-1,857. Admissions for Malaria in 1911-352.
Malaria Admission-rate per cent, of Total Admissions-19 per cent., as compared with 166 per cent. for the twenty-one Colonies.
Total Attendances at Dispensaries, &c., in 1911--33,015. Attendances for Malaria in 1911–7,198.
Malaria Attendance-rate per cent, of Total Attendances-218 per cent., as compared with 22:2 per cent. for eleven Colonies.
Total Expenditure of Government for 1911-12 (from Handbook of Cyprus), exclusive of Tribute-£235,256.
Medical and Quarantine Expenditure for 1911-12-£12,794. Proportion per cent. of Medical to Total Expenditure—5-4 per cent., as compared with an average of 74 per cent. for twenty Colonies.
The Medical and Sanitary Staff consists of a Chief Medical Officer, six District Medical Officers, and 13 Rural Medical Officers, all paid, or partly paid, by the Government. The towns of Famagusta and Limassol also employ Sanitary Officers; and there are in addition a number of private medical practitioners. The 13 Rural Medical Officers visit all the villages in turn, about once a fortnight each. There is no special Sanitary Officer for the Government, but the various Medical Officers are supposed to include sanitary duties amongst their other duties. There is no Government Sanitary Engineer. The towns do their own sanitary work, such as removal of refuse and road cleaning. There is a Government Analyst and a staff of dispensers, &c.
Medical Institutions.-A Lunatic Asylum, a Leper Farm, and six District Hospitals, each with its Dispensary.
Towns.-There are six of these with populations over 3,000 inhabitants each, namely
Christians Mahommedaus
Tatal
217,680
56,428
274,108
Density of Population.-76-48 per square mile. The malaria data of 21 British Crown Colonies (exclusive of Cyprus) were collected by me in a Memorandum Regarding the Returns of Various Colonies and Protectorates on Mosquito- borne Diseases, presented to the Colonial Office and dated May 2, 1912. According to this the average density of population of twenty of the colonies referred to was only 28 per square mile. Barbados had 1,036, Mauritius 520, and British Guiana only 3 per square mile.
Nicosia Limassol
16,052
10,302
Larnaca
9,262
Famagusta and Varosia
5,327
Paphos and Ktema
3,435
Morphou
3,228
47,606 7,951
Total Average
Villages. The remainder of the population, uamely, 226,502 people, are mostly collected in 738 villages (see Report of Census of 1911), exclusive of 80 hamlets of less than 10 persons each. Only 537 villages have populations of over 100 each. The average population per village was 371.