58
TABLE 2.
Classification showing Infection per Age and Race in the Area worked during the Half-Year ended 31st December, 1915.
59
TABLE 4. Sanitary Survey.
Condition existing 81st December, 1915.
419
258
99
62
Under & year.
5 to 15 years.
16 to 60 years. Over 60 year.
Total
WHITE.
Census
19
29
88
Examined
11
21
64
Infection
8
5
10
129
Condition existing at the date of survey in Beptember, 1915.
Privies in proce
No change.
Privies built.
of building, many actually in use."
98
8
1. Satisfactory disposal by burial, latrine accommodation, or undoubted use of the sewage boat
20
20
COLOURED.
Census
454
1,184
9,746
185
4,519
Examined
3. Uncovered Cesspool
52
445
1,113
2,669
176
4,409
Infection
67
450
1,004
69
1,590
3. Covered Cesspool
66
4. Surface, ravine, river, or gorge
180
TOTAL
Cenius
466
1,163
1,829
190
4,648
5. Claiming the use of sewage boat
27
Kamined
456
1,134
2,738
178
Infection
70
455
1,004
69
4,501 1,598
6. Thrown in the soa of the foreshore
75
8582 8
23
19
10
27
21
17
99
51
20
4
128 -
30
69
3
2
Totals
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
Reference :-
C.O. 885
24 PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
TABLE 3.
Classification showing Infection in Adults and Children worked during the Half-Year ended 31st December, 1915.
Infection.
Number
Locality.
of Hous tenant. d.
Canana.
Examined.
Total Infection.
Per cent. Infection.
Adulta,
Children.
Ares outside of Castries
11
841
89-8
east of Carrington's Peak
210
880
871
278
180
458
52.6
Area outside of Centries
west of Carrington's
Peak
209
875
858
290
121
Portion of Castries
Town
571
2,649
2,593
452
219
661
26-6
Recruits in Barracks.......
1
128
192
89
82
87-2
Police in Barracks
I
74
74
2.3
28
31-0
Royal Gaol Staff and
Prisoners
1
55
56
Total
1105
28
28
42-0
993
4,648
4,501
1,078
6:90
1,598
35-5
SIB,
APPENDIX A.
International Health Commission,
Castries, St. Lucia, 4th October, 1915. I HAVE the honour to submit, for the information of yourself and His Excel- lency the Acting Governor, the following report with appendices on the work done by the ankylostomiasis eradication campaign among the Colony's recruits in barracks on the Morne. The work began on 4th September, and was continued vigorously to the date of their departure on 2nd October.
The fact of having the men in barracks under military discipline has greatly faciliated our progress. Without this aid it would have been impossible to have got through the work in so short a time. I have also to thank the officer and non- commissioned officers in charge for the assistance they rendered me in my various
hookworm parades."
There is not the faintest doubt in my mind that the work we have done will prove of the greatest service to the men in improving their physique and rendering them more capable of withstanding the rigours of military discipline in barracks or on the field in any clime in which it may be proved necessary for them to serve their King and Empire.
The body of men examined consisted of one officer and one hundred and twenty- one recruits. The officer was a British Colonial, a young native of St. Lucia. Among the one hundred and twenty-one recruits there were three East Indians, born in this Colony; they have all been discharged. The others are young coloured men, either natives of, or resident in, this Colony. One man was taken on the strength at too late a period to commence treatment; another left the Colony with- out ging a specimen after his third treatment. Of the seven left uncured five have had three and two two treatments.
I respectfully request that this report may be allowed to form an appendix of the half-yearly report due in January, 1916.
STANLEY BRANCH,
Medical Officer in Charge
Hookworm Campaign.
ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC- COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPHENOT TO
Number examined
Number infected
Percentage of infection Treatments:
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APPENDIX B.
122
82
672 per cent.
25
31
Cured after first treatment
Cured after second treatment
Cured after third treatment
Total cures
Discharged before a cure was effected
Failed to give an examination after third
treatment
Left the Colony uncured
Recruited too late for treatment ...
Total
11
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