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and at Cape Coast Castle also a site for officials has been chosen, well removed from 
the native town. The plan then to be followed in towns is the formation of a Euro- 
pean quarter as distant as possible from native huts, and no better examples ot this 
can be found than the arrangement in India of a European cantonment and native 
bazaar. 
1. Segregation in Out-Stations 
The terrible sickness and mortality resulting from the practice of the 
European living amidst native huts was nowhere more forcibly brought to our 
notice than in the camps of engineers and other employees engaged on railways 
under construction. Every settlement ami every camp showed the same most deadly 
practice of allowing numerous native huts to be erected actually in the compound 
in which dwelt camp followers and their numerous families (children). To this fact 
alone is due the excessive sickness from malaria and, as a consequence, also blackwater 
fever on railways under construction. The working in swamps and the turning up 
of soil are in no way responsible, and a single instance will suffice to show to what 
railway engineers owe the malaria they so markedly suffer from, for never did we 
succeed in finding an exception to this deadly arrangement of native huts (with their 
constant fever supply) and European dwellings close at hand. 
The Lokomeji Camp on the Lagos Railway (see plan) : — 
Plan of Lokomeji 
Ewcpea" quarters m 
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About half-a-dozen Europeans lived in this enclosure. In it there were no 
less than thirteen native huts with, at a guess, one hundred inhabitants, men, women, 
and children. 
This is more than enough to explain the constant sickness among Europeans 
here, but in addition there is a second crowded native compound, and a third within 
one hundred yards. When we consider that every one of these huts is a source of 
