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April 20, 1901.
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No. 44.
MR. CHAMBERLAIN to THE GOVERNORS OF SIERRA LEONE, THE GAMBIA, THE GOLD COAST and LAGOS, and THE HIGH COMMIS- SIONERS FOR NORTHERN NIGERIA and SOUTHERN NIGERIA. (Separate.)
Downing Street, August 23, 1901.
SIR,
I HAVE the honour to transmit to you, for your information, a copy of corres- pondence* with the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, with regard to the research expeditions of the School, and especially to the expedition, under Major Ronald Ross, which is now visiting West Africa.
I have, &c..
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SIR,
No. 45.
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J. CHAMBERLAIN.
DR. J. W. W. STEPHENS to COLONIAL OFFICE.
(Received August 28, 1901.)
[Answered by No. 49.j
C/o King, Hamilton, and Co., Calcutta, August 7, 1901. In reply to your letter of July 3rd,† I beg to state that the actual cost of my passage was (£55+ 10 per cent., owing to increased price of coal, £3 10s.)-£60 10s.
2. In estimating the period occupied by my voyage, I sent in the number of days occupied on the average from London to Calcutta, viz., 31 days. I claimed alary only on this time, but I see from a letter, dated 18th March ‡ (no number quoted) and signed by Mr. Lucas, that subsistence allowance is also given us for this time. This letter has only recently reached me, and I had forwarded through my agents, Henry S. King and Co., a statement of claims before receiving it. The period occupied by my voyage was estimated as being the same as that of Dr. Christophers. Actually I left London 13th March, travelled overland, reached Bombay 30th March, subse- quently commencing scientific work in Calcutta on May 7th.
I have, &c.,
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SIR,
No. 46.
WINDWARD ISLANDS.
J. W. W. STEPHENS.
GOVERNOR SIR R. B. LLEWELYN to MR. CHAMBERLAIN.
(Grenada. No. 102.)
(Received August 28, 1901.)
[Answered by 30222: not printed.]
Grenada, August 8, 1901.
WITH reference to your circular despatch § noted in the margin, in which you forwarded the suggestions made by a Committee which had been appointed by you to consider what practical steps, if any, could be taken to check the spread of malaria by mosquitoes,
2. I submit copies of the despatches on this subject which I have received from the Administrators of St. Lucia and St. Vincent, and, as far as Grenada is con- cerned, the suggestions of the Committee do not seem applicable or necessary, as malarial fever is rare.
I have, &c.,
R. B. LLEWELYN,
Governor.
• Nos. 39 and 43.
↑ No. 30.
‡ No. 3.
§ No. 11.
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Enclosure 1 in No. 46.
ADMINISTRATOR, St. Lucia, to GOVERNOR.
(Saint Lucia. No. 151)
SIR,
Government House, July 17, 1901. I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of the Secretary of State's circular despatch of the 20th April containing suggestions made by the Committee under Lord Onslow's Chairmanship for diminishing the risk from malaria to health and life.
2. The suggestions have been receiving the careful consideration of the Execu- tive Council, the Colonial Surgeon and myself, and we agree that they are useful and well conceived.
3. It would seen likely that the suggestions are more applicable to places where European officers and Residents occupy a quarter more or less by themselves, and could hardly be applied to a place like Castries, where the conditions of residence have been settled for many years past.
4. The information and advice contained in Dr. Manson's notice could usefully be disseminated among officials and others, and should be glad if copies could be obtained mounted on stiff cardboard and varnished so that they could be hung up.
5. I am in consultation with the Colonial Surgeon, to arrange for putting mosquito nets around the patients admitted into the hospital suffering from malaria fever, but it will be expensive and difficult to keep them clean.
6. I shall do all in my power to impress upon people the necessity for the use
of mosquito nets, but it is difficult to induce people to adopt them when they have before them the example of medical men who are thoroughly convinced of the truth of the mosquito theory of malaria, but who prefer the risk of malaria to the dis- comfort of mosquito nets.
His Excellency
SIR,
Sir R. B. Llewelyn, K.C.M.G., &c., &c., &c.
Grenada.
I have, &c.,
HARRY THOMPSON,
Administrator.
Enclosure 2 in No. 46.
ADMINISTRATOR, St. Vincent, tą GOVERNOR.
(St. Vincent. No. 111.)
Government House, Saint Vincent, August 4, 1901.
I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of the Secretary of State's circu- lar despatch of 20th April last containing suggestions made by a Committee of gentle- men appointed for the purpose, for diminishing the risk from malaria to health and life in tropical Colonies and dependencies, more especially in the case of Government Officials.
2. The Acting Colonial Surgeon, Dr. O'Neale, reports to me that malaria of a severe or malignant type does not exist in the Island of St. Vincent to any extent, and consequently he does not consider the adoption of all the prophylactic measures men- tioned in the Circular to be necessary.
3. Dr. O'Neale, however, is in favour of the adoption of the suggestions lettered c, d, e, f, and in this connection asks that the Medical Staff may be favoured with further information on the contemplated special means for destruction of mosquitoes mentioned in c.
4. As my own personal experience of tropical countries has been varied and extensive, I may, perhaps, make the following comments on the suggestions under consideration.
(i.) The question of location of new buildings (suggestion a) is obviously of great importance, and whenever practicable, Governments will be well advised in adopting it whenever the outlay entailed is not absolutely prohibitive.
(ii) I regard the wire gauze protection (suggestion b) as most important, and submit that provision might be made for supplying to European Officials with modest incomes portable mosquito proof rooms that could be readily erected within the
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ordinary dwelling room, at a small charge, and that in rest-houses and Government buildings occasionally used by officers when visiting out districts, such mosquito-proof rooms should be permanently set up. I have particularly in view in this connection my experience in the Virgin Islands and the Caicos Islands.
(iii.) Suggestion c, as to provision of special means in rooms for destruction of mosquitoes appears to need amplifying. It is a most difficult and tedious thatter to effectually rid any given space of the mosquitoes that may be in it.
(iv.) Suggestion d, as to regular use of mosquito nets, I heartily endorse and have invariably carried out myself. There are many men, however, who are averse to the use of a net in places where mosquitoes, though present in small numbers, are not very troublesome, and it is difficult to convince them of the desirability of adhering to the practice.
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(v.) I submit that the notices referred to in suggestion should be printed in England, and inexpensively but securely framed there, and supplied to the order of the different Colonial Governments, in such numbers as may be required. Only so will their permanent exhibition be secured.
(vi.) The duty of instructions (suggestión f), so far as requisite and practicable, would, in this Colony, naturally fall on the Colonial Surgeon.
(vii.) The subject is of such interest that. I take it, any Governor would pro- mote the publicity desired and referred to in suggestion g.
(viii.) There is, in my experience, considerable difficulty in England in readily procuring mosquito netting with a sufficiently fine mesh, and a young officer without experience, going out for the first time, is very liable to find himself supplied with a mosquito net with meshes much too large.
If an approved Government pattern of net be fixed on, and arrangements made whereby, it can always be obtained, an existing want will, I think, be met.
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subject of the Malaria Investigation Commission, that the actual cost of Dr. Stephens' passage from England to India was £80 10s. (£55+ 10 per cent., owing to increased price of coal, or £5 10s.), and that the period of the voyage may be taken to have been 31 days.
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SIR,
No. 49.
I am, &c.,
R. L. ANTROBUS.
COLONIAL OFFICE to DR. J. W. W. STEPHENS.
Downing Street, September 5, 1901.
I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Chamberlain to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 7th of August,* and to express his regret that it was inadvertently stated in the letter from this Department of the 18th of March that you would be entitled to a subsistence allowance for the period of your voyage from England to India.
2. As in the case of Dr. Christophers, you will only be granted salary for the period in question.
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No. 50.
FIJI.
I am, &c.,
R. L. ANTROBUS.
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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
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His Excellency
Sir R. B. Llewelyn, K.C.M.G.,
&c., &c.,
Grenada.
&c.,
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No. 47.
I have, &c.,
Edward J. ('AMERON,
Administrator.
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COLONIAL OFFICE to THE LIVERPOOL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. SIR,
Downing Street, September 4, 1901. I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Chamberlain to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 17th of August,* and to inform you that he is fully alive to the good work which is being done by the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in despatching Medical Research Expeditions to the tropical Colonies with a view to discovering means of improving the conditions of health in those parts, and that he has recently caused a letter to be addressed to Honorary Secretary of the School expressing his appreciation of their efforts.
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GENTLEMEN.
No. 48.
I am, &c.,
R. L. ANTROBUS.
COLONIAL OFFICE to CROWN AGENTS.
Downing Street, September 5, 1901. I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Chamberlain to inform you, with reference
to the 4th paragraph of the letter from this Department of the 22nd of April,† on the
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ACTING-GOVERNOR ALLARDYCE to MR. CHAMBERLAIN. (Received September 14, 1901.)
(No. 93.)
SIR,
Government House, Suva, Fiji, July 31, 1901. IN reply to your circular despatch of the 20th April last, on the subject of Malarial Fever and Mosquitoes, I have the honour to enclose herewith copy of a joint minute by the Acting Assistant Colonial Secretary and the Chief Medical Officer on the suggestions contained therein..
2. I concur in the opinion expressed, and consider that the recommendations made in your despatch may all be adopted with advantage in this Colony, in the manner indicated in the joint minute.
3. In order to give effect.to suggestion (b) it will be necessary to incur some expense, as few quarters are at present supplied with a mosquito-proof room. I would ask that the Crown Agents may be instructed to furnish patterns and prices of the wire gauze referred to at (h) for the information of the Works Department.
4. I would further ask that 100 copies of the notice referred to at (e) may be supplied for the use of this Government. I shall also be glad to receive any informa- tion available as to the best means of destroying mosquitoes.
I have, &c.,
Enclosure in No. 50.
W. L. ALLARDYCE.
JOINT MINUTE by Chief Medical Officer and Acting Assistant Colonial Secretary, on Colonial. Office Circular, dated 20th April, 1901, on Malaria. HIS EXCELLENCY,
We have considered as directed the suggestions (a-i) enumerated in the circu- lar despatch of the Right Hon. The Secretary of State for the Colonics to Your Excellency, dated 20th April last; and we have the honour to make the following report upon the question of their adoption in whole or in part in this Colony:-
With regard to (a). In many places where habitations for European Officials have been provided by the Government in past time, the procedure here recommended was studied and followed. We are well satisfied that the suggestion should be kept always in view, and that it can be given due effect to in most localities-though in some, more especially where river deltas are concerned, it is not wholly practicable.
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