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I am notifying Messrs. E. Hindle and T. Storrar Cave regarding the decision respecting their stipends and the proportion thereof which will be payable during their temporary term of military service.
In accordance with the instructions contained in your letter I am to-day refund- ing the sum of £300 to the Crown Agents for the Colonies, that being the sum allowed toward the Quick Laboratory Expedition to be undertaken by Dr. Hindle, but which has been postponed owing to the War.
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I am, &c..
GEO. H. F. NUTTALL, Quick Professor of Biology, Cambridge.
No. 96.
THE LONDON SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE to COLONIAL OFFICE.
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(Received 15th January, 1915.)
Helminthological Department,
London School of Tropical Medicine, E.,
SIR,
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Enclosure in No. 98.
THE SUPERINTENding Medical OFFICER to the Colonial SecretaRY.
Island Medical Office, Kingston, 2nd January, 1915. REFERRING to your minute dated 9th September, 1914, on your No. Secretary
of State despatch 243 of 11th August, 1914, I have the honour to state that the Medical Officers who were instructed to treat yaws with salvarsan and to report if voluntary action on the part of patients to be treated with this drug has proved sufficient have furnished their reports.
I forward the replies, from which it would appear that voluntary action on the part of the sufferers will not prove sufficient for the general treatment of means of salvarsan.
yaws by
As a matter of fact, the people of this warm climate may take to a thing for a while or in certain localities, but they are very liable to become lethargic and careless in matters of health if matters are left in their own hands.
I have, &c.,
J. E. KER, Superintending Medical Officer.
The Honourable
1st January, 1915.
The Colonial Secretary,
Kingston.
SIR,
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[Published as No. 3 in Appendix IV. to [Cd. 7798], April, 1915.]
No. 97.
WEST INDIES.
OBSERVATIONS ON THE LIFE HISTORY OF DERMATOBIA HOMINIS,
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BY DR. LOUIS W. SAMBON.
[Published as Appendix VII. to [Cd. 7796], April, 1915.]
No. 98. JAMAICA.
THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
(Received 3rd February, 1915.) [Answered by No. 101.]
(No. 24.)
King's House, Jamaica, 21st January, 1915. SIR,
WITH reference to your despatch No. 243, dated the 11th August, 1914,* on the subject of Law 19 of 1914, entitled "A Law to provide for the compulsory treatment of persons suffering from Yaws," I have the honour to inform you that I caused the views of the Advisory Committee of the Tropical Diseases Research Fund to be com- municated to the Superintending Medical Officer, and requested him to furnish me with a report on the question of the treatment of the disease compulsorily with salvarsan at the end of the calendar year.
2. I have now the honour to transmit, for your information, a copy of a letter from the Superintending Medical Officer, together with reports furnished by District From the evidence of these reports, I feel that I am Medical Officers in the matter.
not in a position to be able to urge the immediate necessity for compulsion, though I hold that yaws will not be stamped out until the element of compulsion is introduced. It would appear, generally speaking, that the local pain of the injection and the fear of it is the main source of objection to salvarsan treatment, not any dread of its after effects, which seem to be recognized as very beneficial.
3. I would mention that a Government travelling dispensary is about to be started in this island, and I hope that it may be instrumental in dealing effectively with this disease in outlying districts.
I have, &c.,
W. H. MANNING,
Governor.
Stony Hill, 10th December, 1914.
IN answer to Circular 90, No. 3419, of December 3rd, 1914, I have the honour to state that, so far from any pressure being needed to induce persons suffering from yaws to undergo salvarsan treatment, the trouble is to arrange matters that the best use may be made of an expensive drug.
The people are getting to know how extraordinary the results are, and the patients themselves are most grateful.
The Honourable
Superintending Medical Officer,
Kingston.
SIR,
R. S. TURTON,
I have, &o.,
District Medical Officer.
Morant Bay, 21st December, 1914.
In reply to your Circular 90, No. 3419, dated the 17th December, 1914, and which calls for a report on the voluntary action of patients in connexion with the salvarsan treatment of yaws to be sent in by the end of the month, I have to inform you that it is quite evident that voluntary acceptance of the injection method is not likely to make much impression on the prevalence of the disease. Twenty-one cases have so far submitted to this treatment during the current financial year, and the result has been in each case highly successful, but on the part of the great majority of sufferers no keenness, to put it mildly, is manifested.
The Superintending Medical Officer,
Kingston.
SIR,
I have, &c.,
T. M. BARTLETT, District Medical Officer.
Hordley Hospital, 19th December, 1914. Re Circular 90, No. 3419.
WHEN first the law was passed there was a rush of patients seeking to be admitted for treatment with salvarsan, but recently very few cases have applied, and I do not think voluntary action on the part of the patient has proved sufficient, as I know of a large number of cases who have failed to take advantage of this treatment. 2. Of the patients who have applied for treatment only two objected to the use of salvarsan, and this objection was based on the pain the injection was likely to cause.
3. Since the passing of the law twenty-two cases have been treated.
F. R. EVANS,
Honourable J. E. Ker,
Superintending Medical Officer,
Kingston.
District Medical Officer.
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