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question that the multiplication of separate estate hospitals is 

 , from every point of view an unmitigated evil. These small hospitals 

 will be ill equipped and indifferently staffed, apart from an 

 occasional visit from a medical practitioner the patients will be at 

 mercy of men who are unfitted bj^ education and experience to be in 

 sole charge of dangerous cases. To spend much thought, time, and 

 money on sanitarj^ measures on an estate for the purpose of keeping 

 the labourers in good health and then to commit the unfoi'tunates 

 who do fall ill to a hospital where they may have to wait a week 

 before receiving any expert medical treatment is neither good logic 

 nor good business. I cannot too strongly urge the creation of few 

 large and well equipped hospitals to serve the needs of groups of 

 estates, rather than a multitude of small hospitals which are 

 such only in name. 



Peesonal Hygiene. 

 A planter's chief concern is for his labourers and he is not 

 seldom careless of his own health. In addition to the necessity for 

 roomy quarters in a carefully chosen and extensive clearing and a 

 water supply that is above suspicion, it advisable that there should 

 be a screened room in every bungalow, it should be not less than 

 14 feet square so that it can accommodate several chairs and a 

 table, it should be provided with a double swing-to door. The room 

 should be so placed that it is open on three sides, it should be provided 

 for when the house is planned, the small extempore mosquito proof 

 rooms commonly put up are fit only for meat safes, it is little 

 wonder that they can * seldom be used for the purpose intended. 

 Malaria is the cause of at least 90 per cent, of the sickness and 

 invaliding among planters and no precautions against this disease 

 must be neglected in those districts where it is prevalent. Anopheles 

 bite chiefly in the dusk of evening and early dawn, spend these 

 dangerous hours when practicable in a protected room. Never sit 

 about in the open after sunset, especially after tennis or other 

 exercise. Protect the feet and ankles from mosquitoes during the 

 dinner hour by boots or other device. Never sit about in wet 

 clothes, a chill is the most common determining factor in the onset 

 of an attack of malaria. Do not consider the use of a punkah or fan 

 to be a luxury, they are valuable aids to health of mind and body, 

 any one who fails to make use of them is culpably negligent. Take 

 a dose of quinine daily, if you suspect you are suffering from 

 malaria do not rely on the thermometer but consult your doctor who 

 will make sure about it and give you the necessary treatment. 



Labourers and Statistics. 

 In certain areas of intense malaria it has at times been found 

 necessary to substitute Chinese for Indian labour. Chinese for 

 various reasons oppose a stout resistance to malaria and bowel 

 complaints, they can live and work and remain in comparatively 

 good health in places where Indians wilt and die. On the other 



