86 SUMMARY OF THE ANTIMALARIAL CAMPAIGNS 



primers used in the schools ; circulars and diagrams are 

 distributed to householders, police stations and public 

 places, drawing attention to the prevention of inalaria 

 by the destruction of mosquitos. Similar measures 

 have been taken in Trinidad. 



ST. LUCIA 



As further evidence of the thoroughness of the 

 movement in the AA^'est Indies, I reproduce here a 

 circular letter which the Administrator of St. Lucia, 

 then JNIr. Cork, issued in 1905 to the medical officers 

 throughout the island : 



" Being desirous of obtaining reliable information as 

 to the prevalence of mosquito-borne diseases in this 

 Colony, I shall feel very much obliged if you will be 

 so good as to favour me with a return showing the 

 number and description of such diseases M'hich may 

 come under your notice, either in your public capacity 

 or in your private practice during the past twelve 

 months. If convenient to you to add particulars of 

 any other preventable disease which may be prevalent 

 I shall be much obliged." 



This letter had a very salutary effect. It showed 

 that the administration was fully alive to the im- 

 portance of antimosquito measures ; it also showed, 

 by the replies received, to what extent the medical 

 officers had kept in touch with modern developments in 

 epidemiology and mosquito-borne diseases ; and thirdly 

 it demonstrated where weak spots existed in sanitary 

 administration in St. Lucia, in respect of these im- 

 portant diseases, and where in consequence tlie medical 

 machinery required augmentation. 



