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Enclosure in No. 104.
Government House, Dominica, 5th January, 1915. REFERRING to Mr. Best's despatch No. 287, of the 11th September last, and to previous correspondence on the subject of the distribution of quinine in the schools, I have the honour to inform Your Excellency that Mr. Drayton again brought the proposal before the Executive Council on the 23rd December, when the Council advised that it was undesirable to adopt it.
2. I understand that the members of the Council considered it unsafe to entrust the distribution of quinine to the teachers, and considered that there was already sufficient opportunity for obtaining the drug, as the police sell it at the stations and the Medical Officers supply it to such patients as they consider require it. It was thought that the expenditure of £86 15s. a year, the amount which it had been estimated the quinine to be distributed through the schools would cost, would therefore be wasted.
3. I find on the papers a minute by Mr. A. D. Lockhart, a member of the Council, on the subject, and I attach a copy of it for Your Excellency's information. The other members of the Council appear to have agreed in his view of the matter.
I have, &c.,
T. LAURENCE ROXBURGH,
Acting Administrator.
His Excellency
The Governor,
Antigua.
MINUTE BY MR. A. D. LOCKHART.
HIS HONOUR THE ADMINISTRATOR,
I WISH I could feel confident that quinine would be administered with any degree of care to school children, "under the supervision of the teachers," in our Government schools. Without that confidence I still remain of opinion that this expenditure of £86 158., viz., 39 school weeks at £2 158., would be wasted and might cause great injury to the rising generation. Our Medical Officers are, in my opinion, the proper and only persons to dispense drugs.
4th October, 1914.
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No. 105.
SOUTH AFRICA.
THE HIGH COMMISSIONER to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received 5th March, 1915.)
(Miscellaneous. No. 107.)
High Commissioner's Office, Cape Town,
13th February, 1915.
SIB,
WITH reference to my despatch of 25th November last, I have the honour to enclose, for your information, a copy of a despatch from the Acting Resident Com- missioner, Swaziland, on the subject of mosquito-borne diseases.
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is kept at each station and is issued free to natives on application. Little advan- tage is taken of this, however. Prophylactic measures are not yet appreciated by the majority of the Europeans or natives.
2. I am unable to furnish any reliable statistica in regard to the disease. Very few Europeans live in the low malarial areas, and the disease is endemic amongst the natives, and, in ordinary years, takes a mild form. The births and deaths of natives are not registered.
I have, &c.,
His Excellency
The Right Honourable
Viscount Buxton, P.C., G.C.M.G.,
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High Commissioner for South Africa.
No. 106.
JAMAICA.
D. HONEY,
Acting Resident Commissioner.
RETURN OF MALARIAL FEVER, BLACKWATER FEVER, YELLOW FEVER, FILARIASIS, AND DENGUE DURING THE YEAR FROM 1ST JANUARY TO 31ST DECEMBER, 1913.
(Received in Colonial Office, 8th March, 1915.)
1. Name of Colony
2. Total area
Estimated mean population (i.e., on 30th September,
1913):-
8.
(a) Total
...
At date of census, 1911, when population was
831,983 :-
(6) Europeans (i.e., persons born in
Europe)
(c) Other races
White
Jamaica
4,450 sq. miles.
860,798
2,909 828,474
881,389
15,605
Coloured
163,201
Black
630,181
East Indian
17,380
Chinese
2,111
Not specified
2,905
831,983
4. Births during the year: total births
30,614
$.
Deaths during the year:-
Total deaths
20,507
(b) Deaths ascribed to fever
3,117
Deaths ascribed to blackwater fever*
Deaths ascribed to yellow fever
Deaths ascribed to malaria⭑
444
(Swaziland. No. 4.) MY LORD,
Enclosure in No. 105.
I have, &c.,
BUXTON, High Commissioner.
Mbabane, Swaziland, 2nd January, 1915. WITH reference to Lord Gladstone's despatch No. 8/2, of 19th January, 1911, on the subject of the prevention of mosquito-borne diseases, I have the honour to state that pamphlets and posters have been distributed amongst the European population, and both European and native schools have been supplied with cards and pamphlets bearing on this subject. A supply of quinine and other medicines *No. 7 in Appendix I. to [Cd. 7796).
8.
Government hospitals:-
(a) Number of such hospitalst
(6) Totals during year :-
Admissions
Deaths
(c) Malarial fever :-
Admissions Deaths
21
29,419 650
6,779 54
* Deaths from blackwater fever are not separately classified, but are included under the heading
"' malaria."
+ One of which is a lying-in hospital.
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