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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

Reference :-

།༴། ། ། ། mmmmimi.C.O. 885

23 PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON

ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC- COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH-NOT TO

17th December, 1913. DEAR DR. CLARE, FOR

information in working out the details of your budget, I am enclos- your ing copy of the tentative budget which was agreed upon for Grenada. You under- stand that this is altogether tentative and will be subject to modification as con- ditions require. This will be of value to you in suggesting the kind of things that will have to be provided for.

2. I should think it would be advisable to have in Trinidad one of the three You can look to the one medical men as head of the work and responsible to you. man for the details of the work for the whole island.

3. It is contemplated that the microscopists be local people. We have found it possible in the States to take capable young men and young women who have had no laboratory training whatever and within comparatively short time train them into efficient microscopists to do this routine work. They are kept under constant check to guarantee that their work is held up to standard. Trained in this way they become very efficient.

The budget for Antigua provides for microscopists on a much smaller salary, but it was thought by the men in Grenada that they could not secure the type of intelligence required for less money. These expenses will naturally vary somewhat from island to island, according to local conditions.

4. You will observe that under the head of clerical force this budget provides for clerk and a copyist. According to our method of doing work in the States this copyist would seem to me to be superfluous. We would much rather have one clerk We find that one doing the entire work than two persons even at the same money. person at the office of the State Director here does his work as stenographer, takes care of the files, the records, and all his circular letters for the whole State. It is my impression that one person would be more effective here than two, but your own local conditions will determine for you details like this.

5. You will observe that according to this budget the Government of Grenada agrees to furnish the medicine, stationery, etc. Since the Government is already supplying drugs to the people the Committee thought it would be very much easier for the Government to handle the thymol in the usual way.

6. It is quite probable that many of these details will have to be changed after the work begins. There will be no difficulty about this. The important thing is to get the work going. We can then adjust expenditures to needs.

Permit me to express my grateful appreciation of your courtesy and kindness

to me at the time of my visit to the island."

With very best wishes for yourself and the success of the work,

I am, &c.,

WICKLIFFE ROSE.

Enclosure 3 in No. 15.

STATEMENT BY THE AUDITOR-GENERAL. International Health Commission. Ankylostomiasis.

Estimate of Expenditure-First Year.

Stoff.

Medical Officer in charge (£400-£450) Medical Officer house allowance

£400

Medical Officer travelling allowance

4 Medical Officers (£250-£300)

1,000

4 House allowances at £50

200

4 Travelling allowances at £75

300

£2,050

5 Microscopists (£75-£100)

375

Clerk to Medical Officer in charge (£75-£100)

450

Office rent

100

Contingencies

100

Recurrent

£2,700

5 Microscopes at £20... 5 Microscopes at £10 Apparatus for do.

2 Lanterns and slides

Brought forward

£2,700

Equipment.

£100

270

125

395

£3,095

Say, £3,100.

5 Passages at £25

Total

For Colonial Estimates.

46 Medical

Provision is to be made locally for medicines and stationery. With regard to medicines, under head 21, Medical, sub-head Stores, etc.," add £100 a year-for the first year £50 should be enough.

With regard to printing and stationery, a supplemental vote can be asked for in 1914-15 if found to be necessary, and provision made in annual estimates subsequently.

R. G. BUSHE,

Auditor-General.

2nd February, 1914.

7524

(No. 76.)

SIR,

No. 16. CEYLON.

THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received 28th February, 1914.)

[Answered by No. 31.]

The Queen's Cottage, Nuwara Eliya, Ceylon,

11th February, 1914.

In accordance with the request in paragraph 2 of your despatch No. 351 of 16th August, 1912, I have the honour to forward a report (with enclosures) from the Principal Civil Medical Officer on the working of "The Diseases (Labourers) Ordi- nance No. 10 of 1912."

2. The Ordinance was proclaimed (under Section 1) with effect from 1st January, 1913, but the settlement of rules under Section 12 was necessarily a delicate matter requiring lengthy consideration by the Medical Wants Committee, to whom, under Section 13 of the Ordinance, they were submitted for consideration and advice. As Mr. Bertram explained in his report on the Ordinance enclosed in Sir Henry McCallum's despatch No. 384 of 13th July, 19121, the scope of the enact- ment as finally introduced was much wider than had been intended at the time it was first mooted (vide Sir Henry's despatch No. 558 of 18th October, 1910.) Ori- ginally drawn as an Ordinance to combat the particular disease anchylostomiasis, it was ultimately passed as a general Ordinance for the sanitation of estates. It was recognized, therefore, that any rules made under the Ordinance must be of a far- reaching character. It was also clear that, despite the powers conferred by the Ordinance, it would be futile to attempt too drastic and sudden an enforcement of its terms.

So important did these considerations appear to the Medical Wants Committee that the rules as approved by that body were deliberately cast into a hor- tatory rather than a mandatory form, it being felt that in the first instance they should be designed so as to indicate to planters the ideal at which they should aim, but that it would not be practicable in all cases to insist on that ideal being attained. When the rules came up for approval of the Executive Council, Mr. Stubbs, as Officer Administering the Government, decided that the best course to adopt would be: (a) to publish as mandatory regulations so many of the draft rules as there was a reasonable possibility of enforcing generally, and (b) to issue the remainder of the draft rules in the form of "notes which could be circulated to estates with the rules. The rules and notes were published and issued accordingly in July, 1913, and I enclose a copy of both documents.

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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

Reference :-

ELCO 885

23 PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON

ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC- COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH-NOT TO

DEAR DR. CLARE,

17th December, 1913. For your information in working out the details of your budget, I am enclos- ing copy of the tentative budget which was agreed upon for Grenada. You under- stand that this is altogether tentative and will be subject to modification as con- ditions require. This will be of value to you in suggesting the kind of things that will have to be provided for.

2. I should think it would be advisable to have in Trinidad one of the three medical men as head of the work and responsible to you. You can look to the one man for the details of the work for the whole island.

4. You will observe that under the head of clerical force this budget provides for clerk and a copyist. According to our method of doing work in the States this copyist would seem to me to be superfluous. We would much rather have one clerk doing the entire work than two persons even at the same money. We find that one person at the office of the State Director here does his work as stenographer, takes care of the files, the records, and all his circular letters for the whole State. It is my impression that one person would be more effective here than two, but your own local conditions will determine for you details like this.

Permit me to express my grateful appreciation of your courtesy and kindness

to me at the time of my visit to the island.

With very best wishes for yourself and the success of the work,

Enclosure 3 in No. 15.

I am, &c.,

STATEMENT BY THE AUDITOR-GENERAL. International Health Commission.

Ankylostomiasis.

Estimate of Expenditure-First Year.

WICKLIFFE ROSE.

Staff.

Medical Officer in charge (£400-£450) Medical Officer house allowance

£400

Medical Officer travelling allowance

4 Medical Officers (£250-£300)

1,000

4 House allowances at £50

200

4 Travelling allowances at £75

300

£2,050

5 Microscopists (£75-£100)

375

Clerk to Medical Officer in charge (£75-£100)

450

Office rent

100

Contingencies

100

Recurrent

£2,700

Brought forward

5 Microscopes at £20... 5 Microscopes at £10 Apparatus for do.

2 Lanterns and slides

5 Passages at £25

Total

£2,700

Equipment.

£100

270

125

395

£3,095

Say, £3,100.

For Colonial Estimates.

"Medical

Provision is to be made locally for medicines and stationery. With regard to medicines, under head 21, Medical, sub-head Stores, etc.," add £100 a year-for the first year £50 should be enough.

With regard to printing and stationery, a supplemental vote can be asked for in 1914-15 if found to be necessary, and provision made in annual estimates subsequently.

2nd February, 1914.

7524

SIR,

(No. 76.)

No. 16. CEYLON.

R. G. BUSHE,

Auditor-General.

THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received 28th February, 1914.)

[Answered by No. 31.]

The Queen's Cottage, Nuwara Eliya, Ceylon,

11th February, 1914.

2. The Ordinance was proclaimed (under Section 1) with effect from 1st January, 1913, but the settlement of rules under Section 12 was necessarily a delicate matter requiring lengthy consideration by the Medical Wants Committee, to whom, under Section 13 of the Ordinance, they were submitted for consideration and advice. As Mr. Bertram explained in his report on the Ordinance enclosed in Sir Henry McCallum's despatch No. 384 of 13th July, 1912, the scope of the enact- ment as finally introduced was much wider than had been intended at the time it was first mooted (vide Sir Henry's despatch No. 558 of 18th October, 1910.)‡ Ori- ginally drawn as an Ordinance to combat the particular disease anchylostomiasis, it was ultimately passed as a general Ordinance for the sanitation of estates. It was recognized, therefore, that any rules made under the Ordinance must be of a far- reaching character. It was also clear that, despite the powers conferred by the Ordinance, it would be futile to attempt too drastic and sudden an enforcement of its terms.

So important did these considerations appear to the Medical Wants Committee that the rules as approved by that, body were deliberately cast into a hor- tatory rather than a mandatory form, it being felt that in the first instance they should be designed so as to indicate to planters the ideal at which they should aim, but that it would not be practicable in all cases to insist on that ideal being attained. When the rules came up for approval of the Executive Council, Mr. Stubbs, as Officer Administering the Government, decided that the best course to adopt would be: (a) to publish as mandatory regulations so many of the draft rules as there was a reasonable possibility of enforcing generally, and (b) to issue the remainder of the draft rules in the form of "notes" which could be circulated to estates with the rules. The rules and notes were published and issued accordingly in July, 1913, and I enclose a copy of both documents.

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