*District.
January
February.
99
Rainfall during the year 1913.
TROJEM
April.
May.
Jiine.
July.
August.
September.
October.
November.
December.
Georgetown Boddentown East End
17.
ine. ins. ins. ina. ins, ins. ins. ins. ins.
ins. 2.86 0-17 1-82 6.78
8-08 1.08 11.57
4-51 10-51 8.89 0.51 0-58 1.68 0.24 0-75 2:42 0.89 9.90 1-72 8-47 2.60 7.89 0.00 0.29 1.05 0-18 0.99 1-85 1-76 4.80 4.88 8.70 4.70 9.82 0.58 0.85
ins.
ins.
(a) No. (b) None.
None.
(d) One large marsh has been partially drained at a cost of about £10, but this has not produced the results anticipated, since the marsh is below the level of the sea, and to drain the swamp area effectively would entail a large expenditure of money.
None.
None.
No.
No estates employing indentured labour.
There are no poor requiring housing.
No.
Malarial fever is not epidemic in the Cayman Islands, the few cases coming under observation are imported from the Panama Canal and other Central American districts. These cases, as a rule, recover completely in a few weeks.
In cases where anæmia is very pronounced recovery takes place in about two months.
Cases of imported malarial fever receive treatment from time to time.
No. 108.
SOUTH AFRICA.
THE HIGH COMMISSIONER to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received 13th March, 1915.)
(Miscellaneous No. 141.)
High Commissioner's Office, Cape Town, 20th February, 1915. WITH reference to my despatch No. 107, of 13th February,* I have the honour
to enclose, for your information, copy of a despatch from the Resident Commissioner, Mafeking, on the subject of mosquito-borne diseases.
I have, &c.,
BUXTON,
High Commissioner.
Enclosure in No. 108.
Resident Commissioner's Office, Mafeking,
8th February, 1915. I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Your Excellency's despatch No. 5/4, of the 29th ultimo, with reference to a despatch of Lord Gladstone's, and to subsequent correspondence, on the subject of mosquito-borne diseases.
2. It is quite impossible, considering the extent of the territory and the scattered nature of the population, to institute an organized campaign against mosquitoes, but everything possible is being done. Since I took over I have endeavoured gradually, as funds became available, to provide mosquito-proof doors, windows, etc., to all quarters; and, in many cases, a mosquito-proof enclosure for sleeping in outside during the hot season.
I 2
* No. 105.
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
Reference :-
ITTICO, 885
23 PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
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