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2. It is our purpose to have this demonstration carried out by Dr. H. H Howard, who has had extensive experience in this work in the Southern States, and whom we sent to British Guiana to carry out the demonstration there in co-opera- tion with Dr. Ferguson. It is not possible for us to relieve Dr. Howard from duty in the West Indies just at this time; we are, therefore, sending to Ceylon Dr. John E. Snodgrass, who served under Dr. Heiser in the Philippines. We shall send Dr. Snodgrass first to Trinidad, where he will be instructed by Dr. Howard in all practical details. He will then go to British Guiana to study the work in its relations to the Indian population. From British Guiana he will go to Ceylon to begin active operations in that field.
3. It is our purpose to have Dr. Howard go to Ceylon in January in order to take up the work and carry it out to a successful demonstration.
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No. 12.
CEYLON.
I have, &c.,
WICKLIFFE ROSE.
COLONIAL OFFICE to THE INTERNATIONAL HEALTH COMMISSION.
SIR,
Downing Street, 13th September, 1915. I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Bonar Law to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 20th August,* reporting the arrangements made by the International Health Commission for the ankylostomiasis demonstration in Ceylon.
Mr. Bonar Law much appreciates the action of the Commission in sending to Ceylon Dr. Howard, whose work in the West Indies is so favourably known to him. He notes that it is not possible immediately to relieve Dr. Howard from his present duty and pending his arrival he will be glad to extend a welcome to Dr. Snodgrass. I am to take this opportunity to transmit to you prints of a despatchf recently received from the Governor of Ceylon in the matter.
I am, &c.,
HENRY LAMBERT,
for the Under-Secretary of State.
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SIR,
(No. 61.)
No. 14.
WINDWARD ISLANDS: ST. LUCIA.
THE SECRETARY OF STATE to THE GOVERNOR. [Answered by No. 27.]
Downing Street, 13th September, 1915. I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No. 110, of the 8th August,* enclosing copies of a Report by Dr. Stanley Branch on the ankylos- tomiasis campaign in St. Lucia for the first two quarters of 1915.
I have read this Report with interest, and I note with satisfaction that gon- siderable
has been made in the areas selected. progress
I am glad to learn that sanitary regulations under the Public Health Ordinance will shortly be promulgated. I have already drawn your attention, in my despatch Grenada (General), Miscellaneous, of the 25th March, 1914,† to the urgent impor- tance of the improvement of sanitary conditions concurrently with the treatment of infected cases. Active steps in this direction are demanded, not only in the interests of St. Lucia, but also in pursuance of the understanding under which the Inter- national Health Commission granted the generous assistance which has made the campaign possible.
Dr. Branch refers, in paragraph 17 of his Report, to the unsatisfactory con- dition of the schools in the area. I need hardly impress upon you the importance of securing that the standard of sanitary accommodation in the schools should be main- tained as high as possible, with a view to the education of the children in habits of cleanliness and decency.
In paragraph 14 Dr. Branch describes conditions in a bakery which should, I imagine, be impossible if adequate regulations under the Public Health Ordinance are enforced.
I notice that Mr. E. G. Bennett has placed his bungalow in the Cul-de-Sac I am glad to observe this indication that Valley at the disposal of the Field Office. the estate proprietors are lending their support to the campaign.
I have, &c.,
A. BONAR LAW
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SIR,
No. 13.
CEYLON.
THE SECRETARY OF STATE to THE GOVERNOR. (Miscellaneous.)
Downing Street, 13th September, 1915.
I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No. 415, of the 28th June,† reporting the arrangements for the ankylostomiasis campaign in Ceylon.
I have read this despatch with interest, and I am glad to notice the active part which the Estate Agents' Association are taking in the work.
I shall be obliged if you will furnish me with periodical reports of the progress made with the campaign. If any reports of general interest should be printed in the Colony I shall be glad if sufficient copies may be sent to me for distribution in other tropical Colonies.
I take this opportunity to transmit to you copies of recent correspondence‡ with the International Health Commission in the matter.
I have, &c.,
A. BONAR LAW.
42093
No. 15. SEYCHELLES.
THE INTERNATIONAL HEALTH COMMISSION to COLONIAL OFFICE. (Received 13th September, 1915.)
SIR,
[Answered by No. 18.]
The Rockefeller Foundation International Health Commission,
61, Broadway, New York, 20th August, 1915.
I HAVE the honour to enclose some recent correspondence with the Governor
of Seychelles on the subject of our sending a representative to that Colony for the purpose of giving aid for the relief and control of uncinariasis.
2. By reference to this correspondence you will observe that the local Govern- ment has offered hearty and helpful co-operation in the proposed work. On the basis of these assurances the International Health Commission is prepared to send a Medical Officer, who has had special training and experience in the relief and con- If this proposition meets trol of uncinariasis, to carry out the proposed measures. with your approval, and if you would be good enough to signify this approval by cable, we will undertake to get the Medical Officer on the way at the earliest possible day.
I have, &c.,
WICKLIFFE ROSE.
* No. 11.
† No. 4.
Nos. 11 and 12.
* No. 10.
t No. 36 in Miscellaneous No. 811.
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