PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
Reference :--
C.O. 885
24 PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
26633
SIR,
No. 9. TRINIDAD.
THE SECRETARY OF STATE to THE GOVERNOR. (Miscellaneous. No. 2.)
Downing Street, 20th July, 1914. WITH reference to my despatch Miscellaneous of the 26th ultimo,* respecting the purchase of microscopes for use in the campaign against ankylostomiasis in Trinidad, I have the honour to transmit, for your information, a copy of a lettert from the Crown Agents, enclosing a recommendation by Colonel Dodd that mechanical stages should be supplied for three of the instruments to be supplied for Trinidad.
The Crown Agents have been authorized to purchase the mechanical stages at a cost of £2 15s. each and to charge the amount to the Government of Trinidad.
I have, &c.,
L. HARCOURT.
26675
No. 10.
WINDWARD ISLANDS: ST. VINCENT.
THE ACTING GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
(Received 21st July, 1914.)
[Answered by No. 17.]
(St. Vincent. No. 64.)
St. Lucia, 4th July, 1914. SUBMITTED. In the original estimate for St. Vincent it was proposed to provide for-
£500
Salary of Medical Officer
Complete examination (microscopic) by District Medical
Officers, 2s. each, say
£300
On consideration the proposed provision for the examinations by District Medical Officers was omitted, for the reasons stated in paragraph 5 of your despatch Grenada (General), Miscellaneous, of 25th March, 1914, and a salary not exceed - ing £600 provided for the Medical Officer in charge, as may be seen on referring
to the approved budget for St. Vincent annexed to your despatch of 25th March.‡
In the circumstances, and in view of the representations made by Dr. Durrant, I submit for your approval the recommendation of the Administrator of St. Vincent that Dr. Durrant be allowed to draw salary at the rate of £600 a year whilst employed as Medical Officer in charge on the work of the Commission in St. Vincent.
SIR,
(No. 70. )
DOUGLAS YOUNG,
Acting Governor.
Government House, St. Vincent, 27th June. 1914.
correspondence on the subject of the proposed campaign against ankylostomiasis, and par- ticularly to the despatches noted in the margin, I have the honour to report that, in accordance with the instructions contained in the second paragraph of the Secretary
WITH reference to previous Secretary of State to Governor, Grenada (General) No. 10, of 4th February, 1914.§ Secretary of State to Governor, Grenada (General) Miscellaneous, of 25th March, 1914.
of State's despatch Grenada (General) Miscellaneous, of the 25th of March, authority having been received from the Commission for the proposed expenditure, a vote was on the 23rd instant taken in the Legislative Council of this Colony for the sum of £1,038, providing for a year's expenditure on the proposed campaign and divided as follows:-
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Head 25. Ankylostomiasis Campaign. (From Local Funds.)
(a) Personal emoluments :-
Field assistant (including travelling expenses) (b) Other charges
Drugs
Rent of office
Accounting and audit
T
£50 0 0
10 0
40
Head 25. Ankylostomiasis Campaign. (From International Health Commission Funds.)
(a) Personal emoluments :-
Medical Officer in charge...
Two microscopists (£75 - £100)
Laboratory attendant
(b) Other charges :-
Travelling allowance, Medical Officer in charge
Three microscopes
Two lanterns
Microscopic sundries
Passage of Medical Officer Contingencies
for which I ask approval.
0 0 0 30 0 0
2980
000
500
0
150
0
12
0
50
0
0
40 0 0
10 0 0
21 0 0
25 0 0
100 0 0
£1,038 0 0
2. At a previous meeting of the Council the Unofficial Members expressed their cordial appreciation of the kind action of the International Health Commission, and the gratitude they felt at the assistance offered, and asked that their thanks be conveyed to the Commission for their generous and benevolent offer.
3. Under the second head is an item of £500 for the salary of the Medical Officer in charge, and another item of £50 for his travelling allowance. It is also proposed to allow Dr. Durrant from local funds to retain the sum of £50 now paid him as horse allowance, as compensation for taking charge of the general sanitary work of the Colony as head of the proposed new Sanitation Department.
4. In this connexion I have the honour to forward a copy of a letter from Dr. Durrant, asking that, as his agreement with Mr. Murray on which the figures in the vote taken are based, viz., £500 salary and £50 travelling allowance, formed part of a budget which he submitted for the proposed campaign in St. Vincent, which budget, having been altered, does not allow of his availing himself of the services of District Medical Officers in performing his work, that he should be allowed the same salary as is provided for the Medical Officers in charge of the campaign in Grenada and St. Lucia, i.e., a salary of £600 with £50 for travelling
allowance.
5. As Dr. Durrant, as Medical Officer in charge, will, so far as I can see, be performing exactly the same duties as the Medical Officers in the same position in Grenada and St. Lucia, there seems to be no reason why he should not receive the same salary, having regard to the fact that exactly the same arrangement has been provided for in the St. Vincent budget by the International Health Commission as in the budgets of the two other Colonies of the Windward Islands.
6. The only reason, so far as I am aware, why Dr. Durrant should not receive the yearly salary provided of £600 is that he agreed with Mr. Murray to do the work for £500 per annum, but if it is considered by the Secretary of State for the Colonies and Your Excellency that the agreement is cancelled by the change with regard to the services of the District Medical Officers and I think that it is- then I see no reason why Dr. Durrant should not be allowed to draw the salary he asks for, and be placed on the same footing as the Medical Officers in charge of the Ankylostomiasis Campaign in Grenada and St. Lucia.
I have, &c.,
R. B. RODEN,
Acting Administrator.
His Excellency
William Douglas Young, Esq., C.M.G.,
&c.,
&c., St. Lucia.
&c.
PREMIERA MUNGEN MEERUT ||
PARA LIVE NA INTRAKANI
* No. 66 in Miscellaneous No. 304.
No. 8.
No. 36 in Miscellaneous No. 804.
No. 11 in Miscellaneous No. 304.
ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC- COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH-NOT TOPage 601
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YOUR HONOUR,
Enclosure in No. 10.
DR. DURRANT to Acting Administrator.
Colonial Hospital, St. Vincent, 23rd June, 1914. Ar the meeting of the Legislative Council held to-day, when the Supple mentary Votes for the service of the Financial Year 1914-15, were taken, I note that under Head 25 (a) the emoluments of the Medical Officer in charge of the Ankylostomiasis Campaign are taken as £500, and it was explained that this sum was the amount agreed on between His Honour, Administrator Murray, and myself.
This is, in point of fact, correct, but I should like to point out that this agreement formed part of the budget I submitted for the campaign in St. Vincent, and is conditional on the other items in the budget, one of which was that I should have the assistance of the District Medical Officers in carrying on the campaign.
I have now been informed that the District Medical Officers are to take no active part in the campaign, and the entire work falls on me and my staff of microscopists.
Further, in the budget approved by the Secretary of State, and submitted to the Council in Legislative Council minute No 6 of 1914, the salary is stated as not. to exceed £600, that being the amount agreed on in the other Colonies.
In view of the fact that this salary is to be paid in the other Colonies, there can be no reason why I should not be similarly paid in St. Vincent.
The salary, according to the budget approved by the Secretary of State, should be £600 with £50 for travelling allowance and if this Government desires me to take charge of the Government Sanitary Department the £50 paid now to me as horse allowance should be added.
The idea seems to have arisen that I am being paid a large salary for this work, but I would here point out that my present salary is £300 plus £50 for horse allowance, while my private practice is assessed under the Income Tax Ordinance at £200, making a total of £550. It is therefore no special inducement to me to accept a similar sum and at the same time to sever connexion with my private practice.
On these grounds I beg to submit this application for the salary as is to be paid in the other Colonies and approved of in the budget submitted by the Secre- tary of State, for Your Honour's favourable consideration.
To His Honour
The Acting Administrator,
&c.,
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&c.,
&c.
I have, &c.,
CYRIL H. Durrant, Medical Officer, Kingstown District.
No. 11.
27187
No. 12.
THE INTERNATIONAL HEALTH COMMISSION to COLONIAL OFFICE. (Received 25th July, 1914.)
[Answered by No. 15.]
725, Southern Building, Washington, D.C.,
13th July, 1914.
DEAR SIR,
I HAVE the honour to acknowledge receipt of your letter of 20th June,* which has been held for my return.
I can quite understand that the men who contemplate taking up work in the British Colonies should want to know something of the prospect of permanency in the appointment. That question has been raised by most of the men who have accepted appointments in this service in the States.
The International Health Commission has not found it advisable to undertake
to guarantee permanency for the work in any State or country. At the same time we are seeking to enlist in this service the best young men we can find who have prepared themselves for this kind of work and who are looking to this kind of work for a career.
To one contemplating taking up the work in any of the British Colonies the following considerations may be of interest :—
1. The International Health Commission is sending out this statement of purpose under the head of "Scope of Work
2.
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(1) To assist in the relief and control of hookworm disease and of other
controllable diseases as opportunity offers.
(2) To aid in following up the treatment and cure of controllable diseases
by promoting, in such ways as may from time to time be determined,
the establishment or development of agencies for the promotion of sanitation and public health.
Clearly the work here outlined is not a work that can be done in any brief period of time.
3. This outline statement is not a guarantee that the work will be done; it is a statement of purpose, of a hope, of a faith in the possibility of being service- able in this field. If this hope is realized, I see no reason why the work may not offer a career for the man who demonstrates a high degree of efficiency in it.
4. The Commission's contribution toward the control of ankylostomiasis in any given country is regarded, not as a permanent arrangement, but as an arrange- ment which may continue for a longer or shorter period of time, according to the usefulness of the work and the necessity for its continuance. Just what the length of time is to be in any case it is clearly impossible to say in advance. The work in the Southern States has been going on for four and a half years, and the con- tribution to that work seems to be more fruitful now than at any previous time. 5. You will observe that the Commission is interested also in the cure and It is expected that the work will be extended to prevention of other diseases. other diseases as opportunity offers.
I am,
&c., WICKLIFFE ROSE.
BRITISH GUIANA.
THE SECRETARY OF STATE to THE GOVERNOR. [Answered by No. 27.]
(No. 197.)
Downing Street, 24th July, 1914. SIR,
I HAVE the honour to transmit to you a copy of a letter* which I have received from Sir Patrick Manson, on the subject of the report by Dr. Ferguson on the Peter's Hill Medical District of British Guiana, copies of which accompanied your despatch No. 182 of the 21st May.
I shall be glad if you will consider whether it would be possible to carry out an experiment with beta-naphthol on the lines suggested by Sir Patrick Manson.
have, &c.,
L. HARCOURT.
26804
SIR,
No. 13.
WINDWARD ISLANDS: GRENADA.
THE SECRETARY OF STATE to THE ACTING GOVERNOR. (Miscellaneous.)
Downing Street, 28th July, 1914.
I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch, Grenada, No. 88, of the 19th ultimo, respecting the selection of a second Medical Officer for appointment in connexion with the International Health Commission's campaign against ankylostomiasis.
* No. 3.
British Guiana, Combined Court, No. 771.
20098: not printed.