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3. It is thought that a lecture of twenty minutes or so, followed by a short period of questioning, will be of great assistance in this matter.

4. I feel sure that all medical officers will take a great interest in this important subject, and gladly give the instruction asked for.

5. I shall be glad if medical officers will from time to time let me have a brief report as to the results of this movement.

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6. They should enquire of the Director of Education on any details on which they may require information.

To all Medical Officers.

The Director of Education,

H. STRACHAN,

Principal Medical Officer.

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local conditions as to make his instruction practical and useful not only to teachers but also to the senior scholars attending the lectures.

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3. I will address Your Lordship further on the matter as soon as it has been ascertained whether the services of a local medical practitioner can be secured for

purpose and the remuneration to be assigned for his services.

I have, &c.,

FREDK. FORESTIER-WALKER,

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No. 21.

BRITISH GUIANA.

GOVERNOR SIR F. M. HODGSON to THE EARL OF ELGIN.

(No. 57.) MY LORD,

(Received 24 March, 1908.)

Government House, Georgetown, Demerara, 4 March, 1908. REFERRING to Your Lordship's circular despatch of the 28th March last,* and to previous correspondence on the subject of the teaching of the rudiments of hygiene in elementary schools, I have the honour to report that I included a sum of $260 in the Estimates of Expenditure for the financial year 1908-1909, in order to admit of arrangements being made for lectures to be given by means of models, diagrams, and photographs to the teachers in Georgetown and New Amsterdam, The sum in question has been voted, and the Crown Agents for the Colonies will shortly be asked to obtain the requisite supplies.

2. I transmit three copies of a Sessional Papert which was presented to the Combined Court. As pointed out in my concluding minute of the 5th November, the present arrangement is only tentative and should lead to a more comprehensive system of instruction if experience shows that the lectures now to be given assist materially in the proper teaching of hygiene.

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No. 82.

GIBRALTAR.

I have, &c.,

F. M. HODGSON.

GOVERNOR SIR F. FORESTIER-WALKER to THE EARL OF ELGIN.

(No. 58.) MY LORD,

(Received 21 April, 1908.)

Gibraltar, 16 April, 1908.

WITH reference to Your Lordship's Circular despatch of the 28th March, 1907, respecting the teaching of the rudiments of hygiene in Colonial schools, I have the honour to inform Your Lordship that the Inspector of Schools and the heads of the Government-aided schools, having gone fully into the question, at my request, concur generally in the necessity of this branch of science being taught in the several schools. All concerned have expressed their willingness to assist in effectively carrying such teaching into operation, and to this end the schools are prepared to obtain, at their own expense, copies of Dr. Reynolds's Primer of Hygiene, recommended by the National Association for the Prevention of Consump- tion, with a view of enabling the teachers to instruct themselves in the principles of hygiene, and follow such course of lectures on the subject as may be given by any medical gentleman nominated by the Colonial Government as lecturer.

2. It has been suggested that the lecturer should be a local practitioner with a knowledge of both the English and Spanish languages, and so far acquainted with

Sessional Paper No. 430 of 1907: not reprinted.

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(No. 46.) MY LORD,

No. 83. SOMALILAND.

COMMISSIONER CORDEAUX to THE EARL OF ELGIN. (Received 24 April, 1908.)

Commissioner's Office, Berbera, 9 April, 1908.

I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Lordship's circular of the 28th of March, 1907,* on the subject of the teaching of hygiene in schools.

2. I regret that, owing to the backward condition of education in this country, it has been found impracticable to introduce any form of instruction in tropical hygiene. There are no English schools in the Protectorate, and in the three small Government schools at the coast instruction is confined to the reading and writing of Arabic.

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No. 84. CYPRUS.

I have, &c.,

H. E. S. CORDEAUX.

HIGH COMMISSIONER SIR C. A. KING-HARMAN to THE EARL OF ELGIN. (Received 25 April, 1908.) (No. 64.) MY LORD,

Government House, Nicosia, 14 April, 1908. I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Lordship's despatch, "Miscellaneous," of the 27th March, † in which my attention is called to your Lord- ship's Circular despatch of the 28th March, 1907,* on the subject of the teaching of hygiene in schools, to which no reply has yet been sent.

2. I very much regret that the serious illness of the Chief Medical Officer last year, necessitating his proceeding to Marienbad for cure, has caused this important subject of the teaching of hygiene in the schools of this Island to be held in abey-

ance.

3. Since his recovery, Dr. Heidenstam has been giving such time as he had at bis disposal to the preparation of a primer on hygiene which would be suitable for the use of the Cypriot children. The primer was completed in the month of July last year, and there was then considerable and quite unavoidable delay in getting it translated into Turkish and Greek.

4. The book had then to be approved by the Christian and Moslem Boards of Education in accordance with the requirements of the Education Law, 1905, Section 8. This approval has now been given, and it only remains to have the book printed and issued to all the elementary schools. This will be done with the least possible delay, and as the primer has been drawn up in simple terms, avoiding technicalities and scientific expressions, and giving simple facts easily to be under- stood and impressed on the minds of elementary students, I have great hopes that its teaching will be both popular and profitable.

I have, &c.,

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C. A. KING-HARMAN.

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