2)
3. I should be glad, therefore, if you would be so good as to invite the Legislature to vote, for five years more, a grant of—
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[To Gambia: £100.]
To Gold Coast: £200.]
To Sierra Leone : £100.]
[To Ceylon : £100.] [To Hong Kong: £100.]
To Malay States: £100.]
[To Straits Settlements: £100.]
To British Guiana: £100.]
To British Honduras: £50.]
To Jamaica: £100.]
To Leeward Islands: £25.]
To Windward Islands: Grenada, £50; St. Vincent, £20.]
To Trinidad: £100.]
To Fiji: £100.]
[To Zanzibar: £100.]
No. 18. HONG KONG.
I have, &c.,
L. HARCOURT.
REPORT FOR THE YEAR 1913 ON THE PREVENTION OF MOSQUITO- BORNE DISEASES. (Received 26th March, 1914.)
27063
[Published as No. 2 in Appendix I. to [Cd. 7796], April, 1915.]
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(No. 87.)
SIR,
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No. 20.
LEEWARD ISLANDS.
THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received 31st March, 1914.)
[Answered by No. 25.]
Government, House, 3rd March, 1914.
I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No. 274 of the 10th November, on the subject of the reports on mosquito-borne diseases in the Leeward Islands, and to inform you that Medical Officers are being again reminded that where questions cannot be answered a statement to that effect should be made on the form.
2. Now that the primary schools of Antigua are to be brought under direct Government control, the free distribution of quinine will be begun at once.
3. I enclose copy of a minute from the Senior Medical Officer of St. Kitts- Nevie, from which it will be seen that it is not thought necessary to distribute quinine in that Presidency.
4. I also enclose copy of a letter from the Commissioner of Montserrat con- cerning the adoption of anti-mosquito regulations. It is hoped to put these in force at an early date.
I have, &c.,
Enclosure 1 in No. 20.
H. HESKETH BELL,
Governor.
THE SENIOR Medical OffiCER to HIS HONOUR THE ADMINISTRATOR. THE report herein referred to is filled up as far as possible, and unanswered questions are left so owing to its being impossible to give that information. Malaria not being epidemic or prevalent in the Presidency, it has not been found necessary to enforce the practice of distributing quinine; this has been repeatedly noted in these and other reports.
W. H. FRETZ,
26th December, 1913.
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
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No. 19.
NIGERIA.
THE SECRETARY OF STATE to THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL.
(No. 516.) SIB,
[Answered by No. 43.]
Downing Street, 27th March, 1914. WITH reference to your despatch, Southern Nigeria, No. 349, of the 4th of July last, I have the honour to transmit to you the accompanying copies of the Report of the Advisory Committee for the Tropical Diseases Research Fund for the year 1918, which has been presented to both Houses of Parliament.
2. Five years have now passed since, in a Circular despatch of the 11th of March, 1909, my predecessor expressed his opinion of the importance of the work done by means of grants from the Tropical Diseases Research Fund and under the supervision of the Advisory Committee, and invited the Governments which then contributed to the Fund to continue their contributions for a further period of five years. Since 1909, as will have been seen from the Annual Reports issued by the Advisory Committee, the work in question has steadily increased, and there can be no doubt of the great importance and value of the investigations which are rendered possible by the existence of the Fund.
3. As you are aware, no contribution was paid to the Fund by Northern In view, Nigeria, but a contribution of £350 was paid by Southern Nigeria. however, of the great importance of tropical research to Nigeria I should be glad if it were found possible to act on the suggestion made by Dr. Hood in the letter of the 28th of June, 1913, a copy of which accompanied your despatch under refer- ence, and if the contribution from Nigeria could be raised from £350 to £500 for a period of five years.
I have, &c.,
L. HARCOURT.
SIR,
Enclosure 2 in No. 20.
Commissioner's Office, Montserrat, 22nd January, 1914.
I REGRET to find that apparently no reply was sent to your letter No. 412/4805
of the 19th ultimo, enclosing a copy of the Secretary of State's despatch No. 274 of the 10th November last, on the subject of anti-mosquito measures.
2. I see from the papers, however, that the Senior Medical Officer in a minute, addressed to the Acting Commissioner on the 27th December, wrote:-" As I have already reported, yellow fever is not endemic in Montserrat, but anti-mosquito measures are advisable to prevent the spread of the disease should a case become imported.
The proposed regulations against mosquitoes should be brought into force as soon as possible, and a sanitary officer appointed to see that these regulations are carried out."
3. The regulations to which Dr. McPherson refers are included in the draft Health Ordinance now under consideration.
I have, &c.,
The Honourable
The Colonial Secretary,
Antigua.
W. B. DAVIDSON-HOUSTON,
Lieutenant-Colonel,
Commissioner.
**27068: not printed. [Cd. 7261], March, 1914.
Appendix VIII. to [Cd. 4999), February, 1910.
*No. 115 in Miscellaneous No. 274.