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This important branch of elementary education will, however, have attention, with the concurrence of the Inspector of Schools, as opportunity offers.
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No. 73.
CHARLES F. KNOX,
Acting Surgeon-General.
THE LONDON SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE to COLONIAL OFFICE. (Received October 16, 1907.)
SIR,
Dreadnought Hospital, Greenwich, S.E,, October 15, 1907.
I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 4th instant, No. 31216/1907,* in regard to the provision of lantern slides for teaching the rudiments of hygiene in the schools of Colonies affected by tropical disease. My Committee will have pleasure in providing as many sets of slides as you may desire. The slides cost about 10s. per dozen, and these can be prepared and examined in the School before they are forwarded to you. It is the opinion of the Committee that it would be well to have 12 slides of malaria parasites as well as slides in regard to sleeping sickness and other diseases.
Slides illustrative of breeding grounds of germ mosquitoes, &c., and other unp- sanitary conditions, should be prepared from local photographs, as these places vary in each Colony.
If the local medical officers will forward negatives, arrangements would be made for lantern slides to be prepared from them.
despatch of the 28th March last* on the subject of the teaching of the rudiments of hygiene.
2.
In accordance with the wish expressed in Mr. Lyttelton's circular despatch of the 26th of August, 1905,† my predecessor at the end of 1905 instituted a series of simple lectures on health to the clerks, and any other Africans who expressed a willingness to attend them, in the cantonments of Zungeru and Lokoja. The attendance at these lectures-which was optional-the Principal Medical Officer reports was most satisfactory at Zungeru, but, unfortunately poor at Lokoja. The lecturer at the former place was Dr. G. R. Twomey, and I have caused his series of lecturest to be printed and published, a copy of which I have the honour to transmit herewith.
3. These lectures, which, in my opinion, are admirable, and prove that Dr. Twomey spared no pains in endeavouring to attain the object for which they were instituted, and whose work in connection there with was purely of an honorary nature, have now been circulated as far as possible to every clerk and literate native in the Protectorate, and in a few days Dr. Twomey proposes holding an examina- tion of the members of his class.
3. I hope it will be found possible to institute another course of lectures in the very near future.
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I have, &c.,
E. P. C. GIROUARD,
High Commissioner.
PUBLIC
RECORD OFFICE
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No. 74.
I am, &c.,
P. MICHELLI,
Secretary.
(No. 99.)
MY LORD,
THE EARL OF ELGIN to THE GOVERNORS, &c.t
MY LORD (to Australia and South Africa), SIB,
Downing Street, October 28, 1907.
I HAVE the honour to transmit to you, with reference to the 4th paragraph of my circular of the 28th of March, the accompanying copy of correspondence§ with the Committee of the London School of Tropical Medicine, from which it will be seen that they are ready to make arrangements for the provision of lantern slides for teaching the rudiments of hygiene in the elementary schools of the tropical Colonies and Protectorates.
you
2. If you desire to avail yourself of the offer of the School, I request that will cause the negatives referred to in the last paragraph of Mr. Michelli's letter to be forwarded to this Office, with a statement of the number of slides required in each case.
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No. 75.
NORTHERN NIGERIA.
I have, &c.,
ELGIN.
HIGH COMMISSIONER SIR E. P. C. GIROUARD to THE EARL OF ELGIN. (Received November 1, 1907.)
(No. 483.)
MY LORD,
Government House, Zungeru, September 27, 1907.
I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Lordship's circular
• No. 71.
†To all Crown Colonies and Protectorates, and Cyprus, and the Governor-General of Australia (for Papua).
↑ No. 31.
Nos. 71 and 73.
No. 76.
BERMUDA.
GOVERNOR WODEHOUSE to THE EARL OF ELGIN. (Received November 12, 1907.)
Government House, Bermuda, October 28, 1907. REFERRING to my despatch, No. 69, of the 16th of July last,§ I have the honour to forward herewith, for your Lordship's information, a copy of a letter from the Inspector of Schools stating that arrangements have been made by the Board of Education for a further course of lectures on hygiene.
SIR,
I have, &c.,
JOSCELINE WODEHOUSE, Lieutenant-General,
Governor and Commander-in-Chief.
Enclosure in No. 76.
BOARD OF EDUCATION to COLONIAL SECRETARY.
Public Buildings, Hamilton, October 23, 1907. REFERRING to my letter of the 13th July, 1907, in reference to the subject of teaching hygiene in the aided schools of the Colony, I am directed by the Board of Education to inform you that as the result of enquiries made of Doctor Eldon Harvey, Medical Officer of Health, the Board have decided as follows:--
(1) That a course of five lectures on hygiene be given by Doctors Conyers- Herring and Higinbothom and Surgeon-Captain Emerson, R.A.M.C., on Saturdays in the months of October, November, and December,. 1907, in the City Hall, Hamilton, if permission can be obtained to use that hall (the charge to be £2 for each lecture).
(2) That the lectures be open to the public, and that teachers be especially
invited.
(3) That the Board will expect the teachers of the aided schools to attend the lectures, as the subject of hygiene has now become a part of the course of instruction in such schools.
(4) That the usual payments for travelling expenses be made to those teachers
of the aided schools who live at a distance from Hamilton.
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† No. 4.
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