PROGRESS IN WEST AFRICA 79 



In reply to special inquiries made by Sir Alfred 

 Jones, Chairman of the Liverpool Scliool, the manager 

 of important gold mines on the Gold Coast states that, 

 during the five years which he lias spent in tliat Colony, 

 there has been a marked improvement in the health 

 of European residents. This he attributes largely to 

 the work of the Liverpool School in stamping out 

 mosquitos and encouraging better sanitation, but it is 

 also due in great measure to the sending out of a better 

 and more temperate class of men. 



Further eloquent testimony as to the practical 

 result of this African campaign has been given by 

 Dr. Johnston, who has thirty years' experience in 

 Jamaica, who purposely \'isited our school to bear 

 testimony to the value of our teaching in the prevention 

 of malaria. He himself had first thought that the 

 prevention of malaria by the destruction of the 

 mosquito, as taught by our school, would be a hopeless 

 task ; but a very large and practical experience, chiefly 

 amongst the natives, had overwhelmingly convinced 

 him of the practicability and efficacy of the measures 

 put forward by Ross and his school. In his own 

 experience, it has reduced the mortality amongst the 

 native soldiers of the West Indian Regiments serving 

 on the West Coast of Africa some 75 per cent. The 

 preventive measures were not only of use to white 

 trading officials and officers, but also of immense 

 advantage to the natives themselves. 



In all the African Colonies there is a genuine 

 awakening of interest in the problem of insect-carried 

 diseases. The medical officers of the Coast have 



