Health The death rate compares favourably with the 



average in England, and an analysis shews that the 

 proportion of deaths due to purely tropical diseases 

 is very small indeed. The birth rate is high, and 

 children born and brought up in the country are 

 healthy and well formed. That bugbear of countries 

 traversed by the Equator — Malaria — is prevalent in 

 tropical districts, but this is purely a question of 

 altitude, and dwellers in the Highlands have nothing 

 to fear. On the other hand, bronchitis, enteric, 

 influenza, pneumonia and phthisis — as compared 

 with Europe — are of very infrequent occurrence 



British East Africa is administered under the 

 Colonial Office by a Governor assisted by an 

 Executive and a Legislative Council which includes 

 five non-official members at present nominated by the 

 Governor. The principle of elective representative 

 to the Council has already been approved by the 

 Secretary of State for the Colonies, and a committee 

 of the Council has been appointed "to elaborate the 

 details necessarily precedent to the inception of that 

 procedure," so that it should be a matter of only a 

 short time when we shall have the Legislative Council 

 a partly elected bod3^ The Protectorate is divided 

 into seven provinces, each under a Provincial Com 

 missioner, and sub-divided into districts under District 

 Commissioners. Anything in the nature of serious 

 trouble with the native population in the European 

 settled districts has been unknown for years. Their 

 respect for the European's system of administering 

 justice tempered by mercy has steadily increased, and 

 undermined their faith in their own primitive 

 methods of punishing the evil doer. In earlier days 

 cattle thefts were not infrequent, but the practice of 

 branding stock has made them increasingly difficult, 

 and they are now comparatively rare. 



Government Schools for children of both sexes 

 are established at Nairobi, Nakuru and the Uasin 

 Gishu Plateau. The school in Nairobi can accommo- 

 date over 200 children, including about 80 boarders. 

 The standard attained is the first-class College of 

 Preceptors. In addition there are several private 

 schools in Nairobi and other centres up-country. The 

 rapidly increasing number of European children in the 



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