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On the 22nd of July, I left Sierra Leone in order to visit Lagos 

 and the Gold Coast. A few days later Lieutenant McKENDRiCK, 

 M.B., of the Indian Medical Service, arrived. The government of 

 India, to whose well-advised action in 1898 so much is due, had deter- 

 mined, on the initiative of Surgeon-General HARVEY, to send 

 Lieutenant McKENDRiCK to study our operations in Freetown. Dr. 

 MCKENDRICK remained there for a month. 



I returned to Sierra Leone on the i6th of August, and, after 

 witnessing Dr. TAYLOR'S excellent work, left after five days, in company 

 with Dr. McKENDRiCK for England, on private affairs. Shortly after 

 my departure Dr. DANIELS, Superintendent of the London School 

 of Tropical Medicine (conveyed by the Liverpool School), arrived on 

 the same errand as Lieutenant McKENDRiCK. He also remained 

 some weeks with Dr TAYLOR, and studied his methods with great 

 care. His report on the subject will be given at the end of this report. 



In letters dated the I7th and 28th September, Dr. TAYLOR says 

 that progress has been satisfactory, although impeded by heavy rain. 

 The Culex gang had cleared 6,500 houses up to the former date, and, 

 I calculate, must have removed more than a thousand cartloads of 

 rubbish. The total number of workmen employed, including the 

 twelve lent by the Governor, now number fifty-three. His Excellency 

 has also given Dr. TAYLOR the assistance of Dr. BERKELEY, of the 

 Colonial Medical Service, who had previously done much useful work 

 in Freetown in this connection. Major SMITH, the able head of the 

 Royal Army Medical Corps in Sierra Leone, is taking active steps to 

 expel mosquitoes from the various military barracks. Drs. DANIELS 

 and TAYLOR have been able to inspect several places at a distance 

 from Freetown, with a view to starting work there also. Two men 

 are specially employed in keeping the centre of the town free from 

 mosquitoes, while the Culex gang is working elsewhere ; but as this 

 gang had cleared nine-tenths of the town up to the 28th September, 

 it will now be able to commence at the centre again, and perfect its 

 former work. 



As the rains are now ceasing, the dry-weather operations will 

 shortly begin. These will consist chiefly in attacking the drying 

 water courses, in which Anopheles chiefly breed at that season. Dr. 

 TAYLOR is already beginning the work from the ist October, by filling 

 hollows in rocks with concrete. These operatrons will be detailed in 

 a future progress report. It is possible that a hundred or more men 

 will have to be employed shortly. 



