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No. 122.
MINUTES OF A MEETING OF THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE OF THE TROPICAL DISEASES RESEARCH FUND held at the Colonial OFFICE AT 4.30 P.M. ON WEDNESDAY, the 14th of July, 1915.
1.
approved.
Present:
SIR J. WEST RIDGEWAY (Chairman).
SIR THOMAS Barlow.
SIR DAVID BRUCE.
MR. READ.
MR. BAYNES (Acting Secretary).
THE minutes of the meeting of the 11th of December, 1914,* were
2. The reportat from the London and Liverpool Schools of Tropical Medicine for the half-year ended the 31st of March, 1915, were received and read with interest. 3. A report by Dr. Aldo Castellani, on research work carried out at the Ceylon Clinic for Tropical Diseases and Bacteriological Institute during the half-year ended the 31st of December, 1914, was received and read with interest.
Sir West Ridgeway drew attention to the fact that the report appeared not to Some discussion have been forwarded through the Principal Medical Officer. ensued as to the advantages and disadvantages of making Government institutions It was decided to for medical research independent of the Medical Department. ascertain what was the position in Ceylon.
4. The Committee received a preliminary report§ by Dr. Sambon on his inves- tigations into pellagra in the West Indies, together with a despatch from the Governor of Barbados on the subject, dated the 29th of January. They decided to await Dr. Sambon's promised further report.
5. The report of the Australian Institute of Tropical Medicine, Townsville, Queensland, for the half-year ended the 30th of June, 1914, was received and read with interest.
The Committee considered that the Institute was to be congratulated on the good work done.
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No. 123.
BRITISH SOLOMON ISLANDS PROTECTORATE.
REPORT FOR THE YEAR ON THE PREVENTION OF MOSQUITO-BORNE DISEASES.
British Solomon Islands Protectorate.
9,500,000 acres.
(Received 19th July, 1915.)
1.
Name of Colony
2.
Total area
3.
Estimated population:
Total
Europeans
Natives
(d) Other races
4. Births during the year:-
(a) European
Half-caste Native
5. Deaths during the year:-
150,000 340 150,000 160
2
1
not known
10
not known
(b) Deaths ascribed to fever
1
Deaths ascribed to blackwater fever Deaths ascribed to yellow fever
0
0
6. Government hospitals:-
Number of such hospitals-Native Hospital Totals during the year :-
1
85
10
(a) Total deaths--Europeans and others
Natives
Admissions
Deaths
(c) Malarial fever :-
Admissions
Deaths
(d) Blackwater fever
(e) Yellow fever
(Filarial fever
(g) Dengue
7.
Government dispensaries
A
8.
Medical service :-
6. The Committee read with interest a despatch from the Governor of the Leeward Islands, dated the 25th of March, enclosing a report by Dr. W. MacDonald with regard to the treatment of yaws by salvarsan in Antigua. despatch from the Governor of the Windward Islands, dated the 3rd of February,** enclosing a report by Dr. W. S. Mitchell, of Grenada, on the same subject was also read with interest.
7. The reporttf of Dr. H. H. Scott, the Government Bacteriologist, Jamaica, for the half-year ended the 31st of March, 1915, was received and read with interest. In particular the Committee were of opinion that if Dr. Scott's theory as to the cause of vomiting sickness was confirmed by animal experimentation the result would be a very interesting advance in medical knowledge.
8. The Committee read a despatch from the Acting Governor of the Leeward Islands, dated the 4th of February, 1915, with regard to the distribution of quinine in Dominica.
The Committee considered that it was the general opinion among medical men that the distribution of quinine to children in malarial districts produced good results, and they regretted that the Executive Council of the island advised against the provision of the necessary funds.
9. The Committee received statistics of mosquito-borne diseases for the year 1913 from Trinidad, Jamaica, and the Cayman Islands,§§ and for the year 1914 from Hong Kong, the Leeward Islands, and Uganda; also despatches 11 on the subject with regard to Swaziland, the Bechuanaland Protectorate, and Southern Rhodesia.
* No. 86.
** No 109.
See Nos. 110 and 116.
tt Enclosure in No. 114.
Appendix I. to [Cd. 7796].
§ No. 100.
No. 99. 11 No. 104. Nos. 112, 118, and 117.
No. 102.
¶ No. 109. Nos. 106 and 107, and No. 15 in
14 Nos. 105, 108, and 118.
9.
Number of Government Medical Officers
(b) Number of special health officers
Number of other registered practitioners Government and State-aided schools
10. Estates employing indentured labour :—
(a) Number of such
(b) Number of indentured labourers employed (c) Number of hospitals and dispensaries on
such estates
...
There are structures on certain plantations which are called Planta- tion Hospitals, but none has been cer- tified as such.
+11
Total deaths among such labourers Deaths ascribed to malaria.-There has only been one death ascribed to In malaria in the death reports. very few cases of death has the labourer been attended by a qualified medical practitioner, and the cause of death is very frequently reported as being due to natural causes or causes unknown.
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0
0
0
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0
1 (Estimates 2)
0
3
0
115
6,354
not known
172
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