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SIR,

(No. 380.)

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No. 27.

BRITISH GUIANA.

THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received 29th September, 1914.)

Government House, Georgetown, Demerara,

10th September, 1914. WITH reference to your despatch No. 197, of the 24th July,* with regard to the suggestion of Sir Patrick Manson, that an experiment with beta-naphthol in the treatment of ankylostomiasis be carried out in the Colony, I have the honour to state that steps are being taken to carry on such an experiment, and a report on the result will be transmitted to you in due course.

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SIR,

No. 28.

I have, &c.,

WALTER EGERTON.

WINDWARD ISLANDS: GRENADA.

THE ACTING GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received 29th September, 1914.)

[International Health Commission informed 9th October, 1914.] (No. 143.)

Grenada, 14th September, 1914.

WITH reference to your despatch No. 74 of the 9th July, 1914, † I have the honour to report that Dr. Angus Macdonald arrived in this island on the 26th ultimo, and entered on his duties in connexion with the International Health Com- mission's campaign against ankylostomiasis.

I have, &c.,

DOUGLAS YOUNG,

Acting Governor.

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of Sierra Leone should be determined as far as was possible, and reported on, the following communications were received. These reports represent the results of The work is still being investigations during the first half of the present year.

continued and further reports will be duly submitted at the end of the year.

2. I. Bonthe. Dr. C. H. Allan.

"I have the honour to inform you :--

i. Only six cases of ankylostomiasis have been treated as in-patients during the last seven years.

ii. With one exception all these recovered after an average stay in hospital of about 20 days.

iii. A partial post-mortem was performed on the 29th of January, 1912, on the body of a woman, aged 26 years, whose case had originally been diagnosed as beri-beri. The upper part of the intestines was found by me to contain hundreds of matured worms; and I have no doubt that this was the cause of death.

iv. I have started a systematic search for ova in the fæces of in-patients and prisoners, making a point of obtaining both the nationality and previous residence of these people.

v. So far the cases tend to prove that the Sherbro natives are more affected by the disease than Mendes and Creoles, and that those coming from the 'Rivers of Northern Sherbro' generally harbour the parasite-but it will take some months to collect reliable statistics."

3. II. Kissy. Dr. W. F. Campbell, in charge of the Incurable Hospital and Lunatic Asylum, states:-

"i. I have the honour to inform you that I have examined microscopically the fæces of the inmates of the institutions, and seven persons were found to be infected with ankylostoma. This parasite was found in association with ascaris and tricocephalus ova.

ii. In nearly all the cases in which ankylostoma was discovered the patients were emaciated, debilitated, and anæmic. The blood films showed eosinophilia.

iii. It is not possible to get patients attending the dispensary to submit their children's fæces for examination, so that the influence of the disease on the health and growth of children cannot be reported on.

iv. There are no European patients in the Kissy institutions.*

4. III. Batkanu. Dr. P. A. Clearkin.

i. Result of examination of fæces at Batkanu, during half-year ending 30th

"

June, 1914:-

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SIR,

(No. 540.)

No. 29.

SIERRA LEONE.

THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received 10th October, 1914.)

Government House, Sierra Leone, 29th September, 1914. In continuation of Mr. Hollis's despatch No. 6 of the 6th January last,‡ I have the honour to transmit herewith a copy of a report, which has been prepared by the Acting Principal Medical Officer, on the result of the preliminary investi- gation into the incidence of ankylostomiasis in this Colony.

I have, &c.,

E. M. MEREWETHER,

Malea

Females Children

NII.

Ankylostomum. Trichocephalus.

Ascaris.

51

24

8

24

2

7

Totals

61

28

8

20

ii. Total number of cases examined were 118.

Ankylostomum

23.7 %

Trichocephalus

Ascaris

25.4 % 22.03%

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

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Enclosure in No. 29.

Governor.

PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION INTO THE INCIDENCE OF ANKYLOSTOMIASIS IN THE COLONY OF Sierra Leone.

In accordance with the instructions contained in a despatch from the Secretary of State, and in response to the Departmental Circular (No. 37 of the 30th December, 1913) asking that the incidence of ankylostomiasis in the Colony

2153: not printed.

* No. 11.

+ No. 4.

These statistics were made by my predecessor, Dr. Bower."

5. IV. Daru. Dr. Robert Semple, in charge of the West African Frontier Force, states:--

i. I examined last month the fæces of all the West African Frontier soldiers admitted to hospital. Out of 35 cases examined, 33 were infected with ankylostomes, and in 29 of these the ova were found in the first slide looked at.

ii. I have divided the extent of infection roughly into three classes, thus:-

Very abundant.

10

Moderate. 12

Scanty.

11

Negative. 2

iii. The following table shows the number of infections with other parasites:

Ankylostomes and Ankylostomes Ankylostomes Ankylostomes and

Trichocephalus.

4

only.

Ascaris.

23

5

Ascaris

and Tænia.

1

only.

1

D