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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

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MC.O. 885

23 PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON

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

(Circular 367.)

Surgeon-General's Office, Trinidad, 18th August, 1908.

THE DISTRICT Medical Officer,

IN anticipation of a scheme now under consideration for the treatment and control of ankylostomiasis, I have to request that you will visit and carefully inspect the dwellings and the yards and grounds around them of indentured immigrants on each estate in your district, reporting to me in detail their general and sanitary conditions, also whether the terms of Sections 85, 86 and 87 of the Immigration Ordinance, No. 161, are fully complied with in each case and specially as regards sub- section 3 of section 87, whether or not the dwellings are provided with any latrine accommodation, its description and extent.

I shall be glad to receive from you such requisitions as you may deem necessary in any case for ensuring the sanitary fitness of these dwellings for habitation, and any other recommendations you may be able to make in this connexion.

(Circular No. 1086.)

THE DISTRICT MEDICAL OFFICER,

H. L. CLARE,

Surgeon-General.

I HAVE the honour to inform you that upon my recommendation the following estates hospitals in your district have been provided with small microscopes and other cases of ankylostomiasis apparatus necessary for the diagnosis of ova in especially:

Caroni, Talparo, Verdant Vale, Exchange, Waterloo, Brechin Castle, San Juan, Petit Morne, Union Hall, Tarouba and Harmony Hall, Forres Park, Bien Venue, Buen Intento.

The microscope case contains also printed directions for the recovery of the ova from fæces and for the recognition of it under the microscope, and I have to request that you will instruct the nurse or dispenser in charge to make routine examination and to note results in the case of every admission to hospital-a careful record being kept and furnished quarterly to this office.

2nd June, 1909.

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No. 20.

HENRY L. Clare,

Surgeon-General.

FOREIGN OFFICE to COLONIAL OFFICE.

(Received 6th March, 1914.)

SIR,

Foreign Office, 5th March, 1914. WITH reference to your letter 7303/14, of the 2nd instant,* I am directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to inform you that he has ascertained by telegraph from His Majesty's Agent and Consul-General in Cairo that Sir David Semple will be unable to attend the meeting of the Ankylostomiasis Committee to be held in London on the 17th instant.

Sir E. Grey regrets that, in Sir David's absence, he is unable to nominate any representative to attend the meeting. Sir David Semple is, Sir E. Grey under- stands, anxiously awaiting the arrival of Mr. Rose in Egypt.

I am, &c.,

* No. 17.

A. LAW.

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No. 21.

TROPICAL DISEASES BUREAU to COLONIAL OFFICE. (Received 7th March, 1914.)

Tropical Diseases Bureau, Imperial Institute, London, S.W., 6th March, 1914. Ankylostomiasis Committee.

SIR,

I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of 2nd March,* with enclosures. It is difficult to comment to the purpose when one has had no experience of such a campaign as this and knows nothing of the West Indian Islands. I agree that the staff required to carry out the preliminary investigations in Antigua One Medical need not be so large as that required for the campaign in Grenada. Officer should be sufficient with one, or at least two, microscopists and one clerk.

As regards the schemes for Grenada, S. Lucia, and S. Vincent, I notice that in the budget for S. Vincent a sum is set down to pay for medical examinations by District Medical Officers, but that this item does not appear in the other two budgets. It seems to me that by enlisting the services of all the Medical Officers in the islands, paying a small sum for examinations, the organizers of the campaign will get support in quarters where they might otherwise fail, and that the experience gained by these Medical Officers will be valuable to the islands when the campaign is over.

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No. 22.

I have, &c.,

ARTHUR G. BAGSHAW,

Director.

COLONIAL OFFICE to PROFESSOR J. S. HALDANE, F.R.S., DR. A. E. SHIPLEY, F.R.S., DR. A. BAGSHAWE, AND SURGEON-GENERAL SIR R..HAVELOCK CHARLES, K.C.V.O.

SIR,

[Not formally answered: See verhal discussion, pp. 58-9.]

Downing Street, 7th March, 1914. Ankylostomiasis Committee.

I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Harcourt to transmit to you a print of a despatch from the Governor of Trinidad, submitting proposals for carrying on the campaign against ankylostomiasis projected by the International Health Com-

mission.

and

In Mr. Harcourt's opinion these proposals have been carefully drawn up, subject to the increase in the salaries proposed for medical officers, to which refer- ence was made in the letter from this Department covering despatches from the Windward Islands and the Leeward Islands, he is disposed to accept them; but he will be glad to learn whether there are any observations which you would wish to offer on any part of the scheme.

I am, &c.,

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H. J. READ,

for the Under-Secretary of State.

No. 23.

BRITISH GUIANA.

DR. J. E. A. FERGUSON, GOVERNMENT MEDICAL OFFICER, to THE DIRECTOR, INTERNATIONAL HEALTH COMMISSION. (Received in Colonial Office, 11th March, 1914.)

SIR,

1.

River View, East Bank, Demerara, 14th November, 1913. With reference to your letter of the 25th ultimo, I have the honour to submit the following scheme :-

* No. 18.

t No. 15.

‡ No. 18.