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That the Crown Agents be informed to pay our maintenance in future at the rate of £150 per annum.

I am, &c.,

C. P. Lucas, Esq.

Enclosure in No. 24.

Statement of Payments due.

J. W. W. STEPHENS.

&.

I. Passage money,

London to Calcutta, £55 + 10 %, owing to increased price of coal, £5 108.

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II. Pay for 31 days, London to Calcutta, at £400 per annum (£1 per

diem) II. Pay and Subsistence, May 7 to May 31, 25 days at £520 per annum

(£133)

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J. W. W. STEPHENS, M.D. Cantab.,

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are only partially applicable to this Colony, but the Superintending Medical Officer will be asked to report. how far, in his opinion, present conditions can be improved by the adoption of any of the suggestions. The suggestion (a) has been consistently carried out in Jamaica for many years past as far as practicable, whenever any Govern- ment building has been erected. As a general rule, however, officials are not provided with quarters, and it will in most cases be possible only to take action in the direction of furnishing information.

2. It will, doubtless, be of interest to those who are studying the subject to know that in Jamaica the stocking of tanks and ponds with small fish, the minnow, is found to be a most effective method of preventing the increase of mosquitoes, and I am informed that in this manner even bodies of water which dry up after a few weeks or months, may be rendered impossible as breeding places for these insects if a few minnows are put in them as soon after water collects as possible.

I have, &c.,

AUGUSTUS W. L. HEMMING,

Governor.

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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON

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

c/o King, Hamilton, & Co., Calcutta.

My life certificate for May will be forwarded immediately on expiry of month of May,

20993

SIR,

(No. 50.)

No. 25.

BERMUDA.

GOVERNOR SIR G. D. BARKER to MR. CHAMBERLAIN. (Received June 19, 1901.)

Bermuda, May 24, 1901.

I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your circular despatch of the 20th ultimo,* and to inform you in reply that as there is no malaria here it is unnecessary to adopt in this Colony any of the suggested means of protection from the bites of mosquitoes with the view of diminishing the risk from malaria to health and life.

22123

SIR,

I have, &c.,

G. DIGBY BARKER,

General, Governor,

and Commander-in-Chief.

No. 26.

JAMAICA.

GOVERNOR SIR A. W. L. HEMMING to MR. CHAMBERLAIN.

(No. 351.)

(Received June 27, 1901.)

[Answered by 22123: not printed.]

King's House, Jamaica, June 10, 1901.

I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Circular despatch, dated the 20th April last; containing suggestions made by a Committee appointed by you with a view to diminishing the risk from malaria to health and life, more especially to Government Officials, and in reply to say that I am advised that these suggestions

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No. 27.

BRITISH GUIANA.

GOVERNOR SIR W. J. SENDALL to MR. CHAMBERLAIN.

(Received July 3, 1901:)

(No. 211.)

SIR,

Government House, Georgetown, Demerara, June 17, 1901. I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your circular despatch of the 20th April,* containing certain suggestions, made by the Committee recently appointed by you under the Chairmanship of Lord Onslow, with a view to diminishing the risk from malaria to health and life which now exist in tropical colonies.

-2. As regards the first suggestion it seems to me that instructions might with advantage to given to the Public Works Departments in all Colonies to have regard, in selecting sites for public buildings, to the conditions therein prescribed, calling, in case such should be available, for medical advice. The conditions are, however, of a character which it may not often be easy to meet.

3. All Colonies might also be provided by the Crown Agents with samples of the wire gauze proposed to be used for " Mosquito proof rooms," and with any plans or hints for the construction of such rooms that may be available. At the same time the difficulties in the way of the construction and use of such rooms appear likely to be considerable, for the mosquito in this Colony is as prevalent and as active by day as by night.

4. We, and no doubt every other Colony, will be glad to be made acquainted with, and to give a trial to, any special means for the destruction of mosquitoes, suitable for use and likely to be efficacious in rooms quite open in all directions to the air and to access of insects from outside, that are known or that can be devised.

5. It will be found as a general rule that no public officer in countries where the mosquito exists fails to provide himself with a net, for the sake of comfort, if for no other reason. It is not, however, advisable that public officers should provide themselves before-hand with nets to take to tropical countries, inasmuch as a mosquito net must be made to fit the bed to which it is to belong, and must be of a mesh suit- able to the insect against the attacks of which it is to form a protection; in some countries larger, and in some finer, mesh is used, and in all, the suitable material easily procurable.

6. It is most desirable that every possible means, both those referred to in your despatch and any others that may suggest themselves, should be taken to make public Dr. Manson's treatise on the mosquito, and I would suggest that there should be a standing instruction to colonial medical officers to draw attention to any failure by

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