79
Brought forward
Equipment.
(b) 1 microscope at £20 2 microscopes at £10 Microscopic sundries
Return passages of Medical Officer Passages of Microscopists
Contingencies
Total
£525
100
4228
£50
50
50
£200
£775
(a) Salaries as provided in other Colonies.
(6) Clerk at £100 provided, instead of clerk and copyist. If possible, Government to provide office free of charge.
(d) Items of equipment provisional only; inquiry is being made as to the
most suitable apparatus.
(e) £100 considered sufficient in other Colonies.
and audit, to be met by Government.
Staff.
Cost of drugs, accounting,
Enclosure 4 in No. 37.
ST. VINCENT BUDGET.
Not to exceed
£
9499
(a) With a view to expediting the work, trained microscopists from England should be taken. The salaries are those suggested by the Medical Selec- tion Committee.
(b) Provisional only; and inquiry is being made as to the most suitable
apparatus.
Cost of drugs, accounting, and audit, and clerical assistance, to be provided
by the Government.
Medical Officer in charge (if quarters provided by
Government, £550) ...
Travelling allowance
(a) 2 Microscopists (£75-£100) (to be trained locally)
Laboratory attendant
(b) Rent of office
Field assistant, including travelling expenses
(c) Equipment.
1 microscope
2 microscopes at £10
2 lanterns
Microscopic sundries
(d) Passage of Medical Officer
Contingencies
(a) The salary is that agreed upon in other Colonies.
བྷྱཿཊྛཝ༞། ཀིཾམིསཋ།སྨིཊྛི
(No. 22.)
£952
SIR,
£71
£125
£1,148
(b) If possible, Governments should provide an office without charge.
(c) Provisional only; inquiry is being made as to the most suitable apparatus. (d) £100 is the provision made elsewhere.
The suggested provision for examinations by Medical Officers is omitted; it would be more economical to engage an additional microscopist, if required.
Cost of drugs, accounting, and audit, should be provided by Government, as
in other Colonies.
Staff.
Enclosure 5 in No. 37.
ANTIGUA BUDGET.
For investigation to be completed in six months.
Medical Officer in charge at £600 a year
Travelling allowance
(a) 2 Microscopists at £200 a year
Carried forward
Not to exceed
£
300
25
200
£525
£525
No. 38.
SEYCHELLES.
THE SECRETARY OF STATE to THE GOVERNOR.
Downing Street, 2nd April, 1914.
In your despatch No. 31 of the 20th February,* you draw attention to the preva- lence of ankylostomiasis in the Seychelles.
2. You are probably aware that the Trustees of the Rockefeller Foundation have set aside a considerable sum for the conduct of a campaign against this disease throughout the world, and for this purpose a separate body, the International Health Commission, has recently been established. The Commission have begun their work in the British Empire, and I have had the advantage of conferring with the Director, Mr. Wickliffe Rose, on the measures to be adopted in the Colonies and Protectorates. Mr. Rose has already inaugurated schemes of operation in certain West Indian Colonies, and is now visiting Egypt, Ceylon, and the Malay States with a view to beginning the work there.
3. In the West Indies it is contemplated that a number of Medical Officers, with microscopists and staff, will be appointed in each island, to investigate thoroughly the conditions of infection and to treat those suffering from the disease. The bulk of the cost in each case will be met by the Commission.
4.
I think that it is unlikely that Mr. Rose could spare the time to visit the Seychelles. But if you consider that the operations of the Commission would be of material benefit to the inhabitants and I cannot doubt that they would-I should be prepared to approach the Commission with the proposal that they should authorize a scheme for the Colony,
5. For this purpose I shall be glad if you will cause to be prepared a full state- ment of the prevalence of ankylostomiasis in the Seychelles, with a report on the measures which it has been found possible to take for its eradication; and any general observations which you would wish to be laid before the Commission.
I have, &c..
L. HARCOURT.
* 9499: not printed.
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
Reference :-
mmmmmm.C.O. 885
23 PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC-
COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH-NOT TO
12768