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to forward, for your consideration, a letter from Sir P. Manson, relative to Kwala Lumpor Institute for Medical Research, which I am to ask you to be so good as to return with your reply.

2. Mr. Lyttelton would be glad to learn what recommendations you now wish to make with regard to this matter. As at present advised, he is inclined to think that the grant of free passages to and from England every three years to the Assistants in this Institute is hardly necessary, and would tend to cause dissatis- faction in the minds of other medical officers and of the members of other Govern- ment Departments.

I am, &c.,

C. P. LUCAS.

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6. The notice enclosed in your circular despatch of 20th April, 1901,* pared by Dr. Manson on " Malaria: its Cause and Prevention," has been printed and pre- posted in every public office, police, and railway station, and in conspicuous places throughout the Island.

7. In this connection I may also refer to my despatch, No. 374, transmitting Ordinance, No. 20, of 1903, exempting from Customs duties quinine and its salts and cinchona, thus placing these preventives against malaria within easier reach of sugar estate owners and of the poorer inhabitants of the Colony.

I have, &c.,

CHAS. BRUCE,

Governor.

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No. 116.

CEYLON.

MR. LYTTELTON to GOVERNOR SIR J. WEST RIDGEWAY. (No. 441.) SIR,

Downing Street, November 25, 1903.

I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch, No. 405 (Miscellaneous) of the 15th of September,† and to inform you that the statement that the Government of Ceylon had promised a subsidy of £100 per annum for five years towards the revenue of the London School of Tropical Medicine was obtained from Sir F. Lovell, who was believed to have secured a promise of the subsidy during his recent tour in the East for the purpose of raising funds for the school.

2. I would refer you, in this connexion, to page 9 of the 82nd annual report of the Seamen's Hospital Society, a copy of which is enclosed herewith.

I have, &c.,

ALFRED LYTTELTON.

DIRECTOR, Medical and Health Department, to COLONIAL SECRETARY. (No. C/1506.)

I enclose a report from the Medical Inspector on the subject.

May 7, 1902. Recommendations have already been made for carrying out, partly, suggestions (a), (b), and (d).

The Malaria Enquiry Committee has also made certain recommendations for the cleaning of certain rivers and streams, especially those parts where water stagnates, and serves as breeding places for mosquitoes; for the drying up of puddles; for filling in hollows and draining marshes.

Their recommendations have been carried out as far as practicable. The Committee will soon submit their report.

DR. CHASTELLIER,

Director.

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(No. 395.) SIR,

No. 117. MAURITIUS.

GOVERNOR SIR C. BRUCE to MR. CHAMBERLAIN. (Received November 27, 1903.)

Government House, Mauritius, October 21, 1903. I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch, No. 144, of the 16th July last, calling attention to your circular despatch of the 20th April, 1901, § on the subject of the measures to be taken with a view to diminish the risk from inalária to health and life.

2. On the receipt of your circular despatch of the 20th April, 1901,§ it was referred to the Director of the Medical and Health Department, for his considera- tion and report. After a delay of close upon a year Dr. Chastellier submitted a minute, a copy of which I enclose, forwarding a report by the Medical Inspector on the subject.

3. As the matter had been so long delayed I decided to await the report of the Malaria Enquiry Committee which Dr. Chastellier stated would shortly be sub- mitted.

4. The report of the Committee was forwarded to you in my despatch, No. 272, of the 28th July, 1903,|| and at the same time I transmitted a summary of the re- commendations of the Committee, indicating what has already been done in the way of carrying out the recommendations of the Committee, and suggesting measures for giving them further effect, and in your despatch, No. 192, of the 8th September last, you expressed your satisfaction at the interest which is being taken in the Colony in this important subject.

5. An estimate of the cost which is likely to be involved in carrying out the proposals made by the Committee in regard to the permanent cleaning and upkeep of the river beds and reserves, as requested in the second paragraph of your de- spatch, is being prepared and will be forwarded to you at an early date.

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MEDICAL INSPECTOR to DIRECTOR, Medical and Health Department. (No. 95.)

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WITH reference to the papers under reference, I beg to submit the following

July 12, 1901. remarks:-

(a.) The suggestions contained in this paragraph should and may be carried out as far as jungle, stagnant waters and altitude are concerned; I am afraid that presence of local conditions, and on account of other considerations, it will not be possible to place any restriction on the erection of native quarters from the vicinity of otherwise well inhabited and select localities. It would serve no purpose to dis- cuss the reasons for this unsatisfactory state of things in Mauritius, but I will only recall the difficulties encountered and the final overthrow of the scheme intended to prevent the construction of straw huts mostly inhabited by a low class of natives, from the centre and more select parts of Rose Hill and Beau Bassin Villages in 1899 and 1900.

(b.) This suggestion has already been anticipated by you to a certain extent, and the recommendation should certainly be extensively carried out. might be asked to have wire gauze obtained from Europe, and placed at the disposal Government of would-be purchasers at cost price.

(c.) I do not quite understand what is proposed under this heading. It has long been a practice for many persons in Mauritius to cause the sleeping apartments to be freed of mosquitoes by having them driven out by mechanical means before closing the windows for the night, and by burning sugar, frankincense and other aromatic substances, but I know of no special means for the destruction of mosqui- toes, nor of any substances having really cutieicidal properties. Zanzoline has, how- ever, been tried in this place by a few persons.

(d.) This recommendation has long been acted upon in the Island, and might be brought to notice for the benefit of ignorant or rather indifferent people, who are able to provide the required nets, but who do not use them when desirable.

(e.) The suggestion is good. Copies of the notice as it is, as well as French translations of it, might be posted up as directed, but extracts from it, to make the

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