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HIS EXCELLENCY,

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ADMINISTRATOR TO GOVERNOR.

REFERRING to the Secretary of State's despatch, Windward Islands, Miscel- laneous, of 26th August, I beg to report that Mr. Wickliffe Rose has visited St. Lucia, arriving by the mail from the Northern Islands on 9th instant, and leaving for St. Vincent by sloop on the 14th instant. I furnished Mr. Rose with all available information on the subject of ankylostomiasis in St. Lucia, and was able to show him something of the country. Arrangements were also made for him to meet the Medical Officers in Castries, and he was accompanied on visits to the Roseau Valley and elsewhere by Dr. Branch. A day with Mr. Bennett at Cul-de-Sac was arranged, but fell through on account of the occurrence of a sudden death in the family.

Mr. Rose expressed to me his satisfaction and thanks for the opportunities given of gathering information, and his ultimate proposals would, I suggested to him, best be deferred until his investigation in the Windward Islands was complete and he had had an opportunity of conference with Your Excellency on the whole question and of learning your views.

21st November, 1913.

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Enclosure 9 in No. 6.

THE ADMINISTRATOR, ST. VINCENT, TO THE Governor of the Windward Islands. H18 EXCELLENCY,

WITH reference to the anti-ankylostomiasis campaign by the International Health Commission and our conversation on the subject this week, I now forward for Your Excellency's information copy of a letter from Mr. Wickliffe Rose, received during my absence in Trinidad, by which you will observe that Mr. Rose regards it as important that Dr. Durrant be made administrative head of the campaign in St. Vincent. The "conditions "Mr. Rose refers to are the establishment of the new Sanitary Department, which he regards as an important auxiliary factor in the campaign to be undertaken, and of which Dr. Durrant is to be the head.

1st January, 1914.

E. J. C.

SIR,

REQUIREMENTS FOR AN ANKYLOSTOMIASIS CAMPAIGN IN ST. LUCIA.

1. A local Advisory Committee on which the medical profession should be adequately represented.

2. A young Medical Officer from one of the Schools of Tropical Medicine in Great Britain, a bacteriologist with special qualifications as to intestinal parasites.

This officer to be in charge of the campaign.

3.

4.

Personal emoluments

Transport and subsistence allowance

Cost of passage

Two microscopists (to be trained by the above

Transport and subsistence allowance, each

officer), each

quarters, each

Rent of

Office staff and rent:-

Clerk

Typist

Rent

6.

Equipment:—

£400

100

35

70

50

15

75

35

60.

25

16

10 10s.

10

75

§8* 28* ***8 299AP

36

5. Porterage

Microscope with high-power lenses, 1/12th, say Microscopes, two, say, each

Lantern (acetylene, American)

Microscopic sundries (slides, cover glasses, &c.)

7. Contingencies

+

N.B. Forms for records, &c., may be had from Washington so that there may be some uniformity in the method of keeping the statistics. A firm in Washington supplies lantern slides at 27 cents each.

Estimated expenditure for the first year:-

Officer in charge of the campaign (a bacteriologist) £400 Transport and subsistence allowance.

C. G. M.

MR. WICKLIFFE ROSE TO THE ADMINISTRATOR OF ST. VINCENT.

725, Southern Building, Washington, D.C., 13th December, 1913. FOR your information I am enclosing copy of the letter which I addressed to His Excellency the Governor. When I reached Trinidad I did not have an available copy of this letter to send.

I am also enclosing copy of the budget which was agreed upon in conference with His Excellency and the Medical Officers of Grenada. This may be of some service to you in working out the budget for your own island. If I can be of further service at any time with any of these details please call upon me freely.

You will observe that in the letter to His Excellency it is stated that the force organized will devote its whole time to this service. This need not interfere at all with your plan with reference to Dr. Durrant. There is no reason why we should not carry out the programme agreed upon at the time of our last interview. I still think it highly important that under those conditions Dr. Durrant may be made the administrative head of this service also.

I expect to be here until early in February, at which time I hope to sail for Egypt, Ceylon, and the Malay States. All matters coming to the office up to that time will have my personal attention. I shall leave the business in such shape that any matter coming to the office during my absence will have prompt attention. There will be no difficulty in securing action by the Board during my absence. With kindest remembrances of my visit to Government House,

His Honour

The Administrator, St. Vincent.

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No. 7.

I have, &c.,

WICKLIFFE ROSE.

77 10s.

75

£1,163 10s.

SIR,

COLONIAL OFFICE to FOREIGN OFFICE. [Answered by No. 14.]

Downing Street, 23rd January, 1914.

WITH reference to your letter of the 15th January, I am directed by Mr. Secretary Harcourt to state, for the information of Secretary Sir E. Grey, that the following gentlemen have consented to serve on the Ankylostomiasis Committee, under the Chairmanship of the Right Hon. Viscount Bryce, O.M.:

Professor J. S. Haldane, F.R.S.;

Dr. A. E. Shipley, F.R.S.;

Dr. A. G. Bagshawe, Director of the Tropical Diseases Bureau;

Surgeon-General Sir R. Havelock Charles, G.C.V.O., representing the Indian

Government;

Major Sir T. B. Robinson, K.C.M.G., Agent-General for Queensland; Sir H. McCallum, G.C.M.G.;

Sir F. M. Hodgson, K.C.M.G.;

Mr. H. J. Read, C.M.G.

Mr. G. Grindle

of the Colonial Office.

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* See page 6.

do.

100

Passage from England

35

Two microscopists at £70

140

Transport and subsistence allowance. do. at £50

100

Allowance for rent

30

Office staff and rent

146

Porterage

60

Equipment Contingencies