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Jaluo and a few individuals from other tribes. The East African 

 tribes present such striking physical differences that further inquiry- 

 will be of great interest for purposes of comparison. As mentioned 

 in the previous section, Dr. McCuUoch has collected data from 

 the Hausa of West Africa, which show similar arrest of physical 

 development at puberty. 



Since the publication of results by Gordon and Vint the medical 

 and lay press has made constant reference to the possibility of 

 a large-scale inquiry, and the combined meeting of the East 

 African branches of the British Medical Association at Dar-es- 

 Salaam in January 1934 passed a resolution calling upon the 

 governments to take up the investigation without delay. The 

 inquiry is estimated to cost about ;£"50,ooo and, with the annual 

 medical grant in Kenya at about ^200,000, it is clear that such 

 a sum could not come from local budgets. Sir Ernest Graham- 

 Little, M.P., has put the arguments in favour of making such a 

 sum available in The Times of 28th August 1934. 



It should be urged that knowledge of mental and physical 

 development, though of great academic interest, is not sufficient 

 as a guide in formulating policy. It should be combined with a 

 survey of diseases, of nutrition, of agricultural and animal hus- 

 bandry methods, and even botany, zoology, soils, etc. In fact, the 

 ecological outlook would be all-important in such an inquiry in 

 order to understand the several factors working on native develop- 

 ment, and to appreciate which of them are susceptible to control. 

 Since so much intensive work is necessary, it seems that the best 

 results would accrue if a team of workers were to concentrate in 

 the first place on one tribe, or perhaps one small section of a tribe. 

 A deep insight into the question of natural development would 

 thereby be attained, and standards would be set up; these could 

 subsequently be applied with comparatively little extra work to 

 other tribes living in different environments. 



HEAI.TH OF EUROPEANS 



Compared with African natives, Europeans are comparatively 

 well-provided with medical facilities, as pointed out in Chapter 

 XV. Civil servants receive free attention from the government 



