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Medical Officer, have been distributed among the public schools of the Dependency. The Inspector of Schools reports that the principles of elementary hygiene were intelligently taught, and well understood by the pupils.

TRINIDAD.

There has been no systematic teaching of hygiene in schools, for the reason chiefly that this is not one of the compulsory subjects of the Education Code. From time to time, however, demonstrations have been given in the natural history of the mosquito by the teachers who attended the course of lectures in 1895. Copies of Dr. Prout's book on "Elementary Hygiene and Sanitation, with special reference to the Tropics were distributed to all head teachers. It had been arranged, after consultation with the Inspector of Schools, that a regular course of lectures should be given by the Assistant Medical Officer of Health at the training school and at one or two country centres during the early months of the year, but owing to pressure of work this proposal has not been carried out. This important branch of elementary education will, however, have attention, with the concurrence of the Inspector of Schools, as opportunity offers.

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FALKLAND ISLANDS.

The Governor attaches very great importance to the question of the teaching of hygiene and temperance, and has done his best to inculcate the first principles into the rising generation not only in the Government Schools in Stanley but throughout the camps of the East and West Falklands. In September, 1905, he imported at his own expense from Melbourne 60 copies of a manual entitled "Health and Temper- ance," which is used in the State schools in Victoria, and presented them to the schools in Stanley, and at the same time sent copies to the Government Itinerant Teachers, with instructions that the children were to be taught both hygiene and temperance from this text-book. He also sent several copies to the Manager of the Falkland Islands Company at Darwin for the use of the Company's teachers in Lafonia. He trusts that with the arrival of the new schoolmaster and school- mistress it may be found possible to devote still greater attention to this important

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August, 1908.

WINDWARD ISLANDS.-GRENADA.

A special text-book is being prepared for the elementary schools in the Island and in the meantime Dr. Branch's Primer has been adopted, and teachers are placing its principles before the pupils in the form of object lessons. is being prepared on the lines adopted in St. Vincent.

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ST. LUCIA.

The Inspector of Schools thinks that a good beginning has been made. In several schools the children answered elementary questions on the subject very well. The Inspector has spoken strongly on the matter in all the different districts, and urged the children to try and put (or get put) into practice in their homes what they learned in the school. He dwelt principally on the questions of ventilation and the protection of barrels, cisterns, &c., containing water.

ST. VINCENT.

The Administrator reports that instruction in hygiene has received the hearty attention of the teachers in the primary schools of the Colony as well as in the Agricultural School. The Acting Inspector of Schools, in his annual report, states that he found Dr. C. W. Branch's" Tropical Hygiene Primer" most readily appealed to the pupils, and that since several teachers are amplifying it with notes, as they go on, he anticipates material progress from its use. sold out, the author has, with the concurrence of the Administrator, made arrange- As the present edition is now ments with a local publisher for the issue of a second edition; and it is hoped that the wider sale of this manual, which is written in very popular and simple language, will assist in promulgating among the poorer classes, a knowledge of those important hygienic principles which it is the intention of the author to instil.

The Resident-Master of the Agricultural School reports. that he has for some time given considerable attention to the teaching of personal hygiene, as this subject is, in fact, inseparable from, and specially applicable to, the hygiene of plant and animal cultivation on the farm; and he expresses the confident hope that the pupils in his school will prove to be pioneers of more sanitary living among their companions and other labourers on the estates at which they will be engaged."

With the view of encouraging the teaching of sanitation and hygiene in primary schools, the Board of Education has awarded a special prize of £5 to the teacher of the school which gave the best result in the examinations on this subject; and prizes have also been awarded to children who have shown themselves most proficient.

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