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question that the multiplication of separate estate hospitals is 
from every point of view an unmitigated evil. These small hospitals 
will be ill equipped and indifferently staffed, apart from an 
occasional visit from a medical practitioner the patients will be at 
mercy of men who are unfitted by education and experience to be in 
sole charge of dangerous cases. To spend much thought, time, and 
money on sanitary nmasures on an estate for the purpose of keeping 
the labourers in good health and then to commit the unfortunates 
who do fall ill to a hospital where they may have to wait a week 
before receiving any expert medical treatment is neither good logic 
nor good business. I cannot too strongly urge the creation of few 
large and well equipped hospitals to serve the needs of groups of 
estates, rather than a multitude of small hospitals which are 
sucff only in name. 
Personal Hygiene. 
A planter’s chief concern is for his labourers and he is not 
seldom careless of his own health. In addition to the necessity for 
roomy quarters in a carefully chosen and extensive clearing and a 
water supply that is above suspicion, it advisable that there should 
lie a screened room in every bungalow, it should be not less than 
14 feet square so that it can accommodate several chairs and a 
table, it should be provided with a double swing-to door. The room 
should be so placed that it is open on three sides, it should be provided 
for when the bouse is planned, the small extempore mosquito proof 
rooms commonly put up are fit only for meat safes, it is little 
wonder that they can seldom be used for the purpose intended. 
Malaria is the cause of at least 90 per cent, of the sickness and 
invaliding among planters and no precautions against this disease 
must be neglected in those districts where it is prevalent. Anopheles 
bite chiefly in the dusk of evening and early dawn, spend these 
dangerous hours when practicable in a protected room. Never sit 
about in the open after sunset, especially after tennis or other 
exercise. Protect the feet and ankles from mosquitoes during the 
dinner hour by boots or other device. Never sit about in wet 
clothes, a chill is the most common determining factor in the onset 
of an attack of malaria. Do not consider the use of a punkah or fan 
to be a luxury, they are valuable aids to health of mind and body, 
any one who fails to make use of them is culpably negligent. Take 
a dose of quinine daily, if you’ suspect you are suffering from 
malaria do not rely on the thermometer but consult your doctor who 
will make sure about it and give you the necessary treatment. 
Labourers and Statistics. 
In certain areas of intense malaria it lias at times been found 
necessary to substitute Chinese for Indian labour. Chinese for 
various reasons oppose a stout resistance to malaria and bowel 
complaints, they can live and work and remain in comparatively 
good health in places where Indians wilt and die. On the other 
