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16. Rainfall during the year :-

97

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

Reference :-

TLCO 885

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Sav-la-Mar (at time of census, April, 1911) .

Black River

Mandeville

Chapelton

May Pen

Linstead

Spanish Town

Old Harbour

Mayor and Council

**

21

15

"

"

"

"

1)

Total

(c) Total revenue, 1913-14, Kingston (other towns

have no independent revenues):

Kingston General Commissioners

(d) Total medical and sanitary expenditure, Kingston (other towns have no independent

Kingston General Commissioners (sewage) Kingston

revenues) :-

Mayor and Council

General

Commissioners'

Charges

Total

14. Table of deaths by parishes :—

3,400

1,282

1,198

Where Observed.

District.

630

(not stated)

#

7,119

At about 150

N.E.

(not stated)

"average" stations.

.א

£38,825

38,483

£77,308

£4,684

4,474

Debt

6,543

£15,701

Total Deaths.

Parish.

Arem Square Miles.

Estimated (Mean) Population.

March Quarter.

June Quarter.

December September

Quarter. Quarter.

Year.

Kingston

71

60,540

572

571

421

956

1,920

St. Andrew

188

58,508

465

491

294

296

1,546

St. Thomas

2981

40,518

849

274

208

200

1,026

Portland

888

50,785

401

297

280

242

1,170

St. Mary

251

75,979

460

891

291

888

1,480

St. Ann

487

74,459

870

277

888

847

1,882

Trelawny

858

86,579

220

175

184

289

818

St. James

2891

42,819

269

285

810

262

1,078

Hanover

177

88,878

288

818

800

248

1,149

Westmoreland

820

68,815

490

471

525

897

1,888

St. Elizabeth...

4784

81,844

478

896

946

899

1,614

Manchester

887

88,202

865

825

800

307

1,297

Clarendon

487

77,048

689

427

965

889

1,870

St. Catherine

498

91,084

784

579

511

479

2,826

Whole Island

4,4501 860,798

6,175

5,215

4,618

4,499

20,507

15. Table of deaths in the principal towns :-

Kingston

Town.

Estimated

(Men) Population

8,170

January.

February.

March.

September.

October.

November.

December,

Total.

217 159 191 192 188 192 171181118 96118 185 1,898

(No figures available for other towns.)

•!

The Island

January-

February.

March.

April.

ins. in. ins. ine. ine.

August.

Feptember.

October.

November.

December.

Total.

ina. ing. ine. ins.

ins. ins. ins. ins.

10-292-28 51-09 5-712-77 77-08

7-68 1-56 8-18 10-45 | 11·10 | 5·70 4·17 6-488-89 7-1415-85 814 87-19 8:29 0-77 248_6-90 5-89 | 8:24 2-888-46,4-54|| 5-88 12-15 1-878-85 8-59 9-95 4.89 8-55 7-57 9-11 10-57 1-470-84 8-10 6-42 5.82 1-89 2·57 4-52 5·55 4-64

'W.C.

8.

8-64 1-14 8-79 7-94

8-24 2-49 41.95

8-06 | | 8-804-48| 550| 8-90|||-7-092 | 8-65 [8·42 64-94

17. Additional information to be given, if possible, on the following points

(a) Is there any legislation in force against the breeding of mosquitoes in premises? Yes. Section 7 of Law 35 of 1910. By-laws have been framed under Section 11 of Law 35 of 1910.

Number of notices, convictions, and warnings during the year.-Notices

and warnings, 18,948; convictions, 154.

(b) Number of children examined for enlarged spleen.---No routine examina-

tion was made.

Does kála-azar exist?—No.

() Number of persons examined for filarial diseases.-No special routine

examination was made.

(d) Any large works for surface drainage of towns or reclamation of

marshes :--

Kingston:

Portland:

St. Mary:

St. Ann:

St. James:

Hanover :

Reclamation of swamp land at Kingston Pen. Concrete drains, Windward Road.

Concrete drains.

Swamp land, Port Antonio.

Concrete drain, Buff Bay.

Concrete drains.

Reclamation, Warner's Pond Swamp.

Clearing river outlet, Annotto Bay. Concrete drains, etc.

Reclamation, swamp land, St. Ann's Bay.

Concrete drains.

Concrete drains.

Westmoreland: Concrete drains.

St. Elizabeth: Reclamation of marshes, Thornton Swamp, etc.

Clarendon :

Drains at May Pen.

St. Catherine: Concrete drains.

Approximate cost: £3,651.

(e) Number of men employed in towns and villages for petty anti-mosquito works. As a rule no men are employed by parochial authorities exclusively for petty anti-mosquito work, but in each parish the parochial Inspectors of Nuisances attend to such work, and in many instances these men have received special instruction on the subject. (f) Amount of Government quinine sold or distributed gratis during the

year. In powder, 3,886 ozs.; in tablets, 9,395 ozs. Agencies employed.--Public hospitals, Parochial Boards, Malaria

Commission, Post Offices, Police Estates (Managers).

(g) Is quinine distributed regularly in the schools?-Not at all schools. At those in malarial districts it is distributed at different seasons as needed, and at the discretion of the teachers.

(2) Measures taken against these diseases on estates employing indentured labour.-Employers are urged to keep barracks and compounds in a sanitary condition, and to administer quinine to labourers regularly two or three times per week.

(1) Any steps taken regarding the housing of the poor.-There are Poor

Houses in most of the parishes, which are under parochial adminiɛ tration.

(j) Any exceptional increase or decrease of these diseases recently noticed.

No.

(k) Any other remarks on the subject.--No.

I

Total...

10665

98

No. 107.

CAYMAN ISLANDS.

RETURN OF MALARIAL FEVER, BLACKWATER FEVER, YELLOW FEVER, AND FILARIASIS FROM 1ST JANUARY TO 318T DECEMBER, 1919.

(Received in Colonial Office, 6th March, 1915.)

1. Name of Colony: Cayman Islands.

2. Total area: 61,000 acres.

3. Population at time of census, April, 1911:-

Total

Europeans

White

Other races

5,564 20

5,544

2,322

Coloured.. Black

2,211

1,031

Total

5,564

4. Births during the year

199

5. Deaths during the year

41

(None ascribed to malaria, blackwater, or yellow fever.)

6. Government hospitals

None

7. Government dispensaries

None

8. Number of Government Medical Officers

2

(No special health officers or other registered

practitioners.)

9. Number of (a) Government schools

4

State-aided schools

None

(c) Percentage of daily attendance

(b) Scholars registered in these schools

505

12169

88

10.

Estates employing indentured labour

None

11.

Estimated revenue of Colony, year ending 30th

September, 1913

£3,067

12. Estimated expenditure:

(a) Total during year ending 30th September, 1913 (b) Annual medical and sanitary expenditure

£3,052

£375

Upkeep of Government hospitals and dispensaries Total salaries and allowances of Medical Officers Total annual sanitary expenditure

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13. Towns under municipalities or town councils.-None.

nil

SIR,

£335

nil

District.

Area..

Population at Census,

April, 1911.

1

Total Deaths,

Quarter ending Quarter ending Quarter ending Quarter ending | March 81, 1918 | June 30, 1918." | Bept. 80, 1918." | Dec. 31, 1918.

(H.C. 17.)

Georgetown and West Bay

2,411

Prospect and S. W. Sound Boddentown

946

625

East End and Northside... Leaser Caymans

748

1,486

OS DE CA **

8

8

1

Nil.

8

No.

2

1

2

Nil.

4

4

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MY LORD,

5,564

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