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No 118.
MALAY STATES.
THE INTERNATIONAL HEALTH COMMISSION to COLONIAL OFFICE.
SI,
(Received 29th June, 1915.)
[Copy to High Commissioner, 1st July, 1915. Miscellaneous. L.F.]
The Rockefeller Foundation, International Health Commission,
61, Broadway, New York, 15th June, 1915.
I HEG to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of 81st May,* advising that the High Commissioner of the Malay States has reported the nomination of Dr. Hacker, of the Federated Malay States Medical Department, to be the local member Dr. Hacker's nomination is of the Commission of Inquiry into ankylostomiasts. cordially approved by the International Health Commission.
9. We note also, with much satisfaction, that Government quarters have been provided for Dr. Darling and Dr. Barber, and it is proposed that the Commission Kuala Lumpur is in the heart of the most begin operations at Kuala Lumpur. heavily infected area, and will afford the Commission most convenjent headquarters. 3. We note also that the Federated Malay States Government would welcome an extension of the inquiry so as to include investigations into malaria. We shall be interested to consider what Dr. Heiser has to report on this question.
4. Permit me to express our grateful appreciation of the interest which His Excellency Bir Arthur Young has taken in the work which the Commission is to do, and of the co-operation which the Government has given in working out all the necessary details. We are much gratified with all of the arrangements that have been made for this work, and are hopeful of effective results.
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without unreasonable hardship to individuals, and in so far as the requirements of the law are not in excess of, at variance with, those proposed to be prescribed by the new Public Health Ordinance.
With regard to the third paragraph of your despatch, I have read your pro- posals for the improvement of the conditions of schools with much interest. I agree with the Surgeon-General that it is of the greatest importance to ensure that the sanitary accommodation in schools should be adequate for the prevention of disease and for the inculcation of habits of cleanliness.
I have, &c.,
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I have, &c.,
WICKLIFFE ROSE.
SIR,
No. 117. TRINIDAD.
THE SECRETARY OF STATE to THE GOVERNOR.
(Miscellaneous.)
Downing Street, 2nd July, 1915.
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No. 210, of the 21st May † reporting on the progress of sanitary measures in connexion with the campaign against ankylostomiasis.
The question of the expediency of enforcing the penalties under the Public Health Ordinance is one of administration which I must leave largely to your dis- cretion, but there are some considerations to which I wish to invite your careful attention.
The enforcement of these penalties must depend on the resources at the disposal of the Government and on the ability of the people to comply with the provisions But I gather that the existing law of the Ordinance without undue difficulty. contains provisions which give the Wardens ample powers for securing the provision of senitary accommodation; and it appears from the reports enclosed in your despatch under reply that these powers have indeed in many districts been exercised and are by no means a dead letter.
It is indisputable that, not only in the interests of the Colony. but also in pur- suance of the understanding under which the Interpational Health Commission undertook the campaign in Trinidad, every effort should be made to ensure the pro- vision of proper sanitary accommodation in so far as the resources at the disposal of the Government permit. I recognize that the Public Health, Bill, when it becomes law, will confer on the Government powers which may be more readily exercised that those given by the existing law; but this fact would not in itself justify the suspension of the exercise of the existing powers in so far as they can be enforced
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