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MALARIA PREVENTION IN JAMAICA 
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Sir RUBERT BOYCE, F.R.S, 
DEAN OF THE LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE 
(.Received for publication 16 June , 1910) 
Plates XVI-XVII 
Although it is too early to sum up the results of the special 
Commission appointed in October to enquire into the malarial 
problem in [amaica, nevertheless, as the methods of procedure of the 
Commission are of real and practical interest at a time when it is 
incumbent upon all colonies to take steps to abate the malaria 
nuisance, I have considered the narration of the following facts not 
without interest, as I have had myself an opportunity of examining 
the work in progress, and as an important paper dealing with the 
subject of malaria in Jamaica has appeared in a previous number of 
these 1 Annals.’* 
Appointment of the Commission 
The Commission was appointed by Sir Sydney Olivier, K.C.M.G., 
the Governor, on October 16, 1909, and consisted of the following 
representative members: — 
The Colonial Secretary, P. C. Cork, 
The Archbishop of the West Indies, 
The Senior Medical Officer, Dr. Kerr, 
Dr. Turton, 
Dr. Grabham, Entomologist, 
Messrs. Gideon and Hurt. 
Mr. F. N. Isaacs was subsequently appointed Secretary. The 
selection of the Commission was a wise one, the members being fully 
alive to the importance of the work—sanitarians of pronounce 
modem views, and in several instances gentlemen who ha 
contributed valuable papers upon the subject, or who had had previous 
experience of anti-malarial work in other colonies. 
* Annals of Trop. Med. and Parasit. Vol. HI, No. 4- 
