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Dysentery in the West Indies.

THE Colonies comprising the British West Indies present a rich mine of material which has been comparatively little explored by the workers in tropical medicine and sanitation. In a recent expedition organized by the London School of Tropical Medicine and led by Professor Leiper, I had an opportunity of studying the health and sanitary conditions of various communities in the Caribbean zone, and to me the most striking feature in the annual reports of the respective Chief Medical Officers, was the high rate of mortality and morbidity attributable to dysentery and allied intestinal disorders. The members of the Commission travelled separately and one or other of them called at Barbados, Trinidad, Grenada, St. Vincent and St. Lucia in the Windward Islands, and Antigua in the Leeward group. Headquarters were established in Georgetown, the capital of British Guiana and there we met with every facility and kindness that could possibly contribute to the success of our investigation. The report of the Surgeon-General for British Guiana shows that in 1919, out of a total of 12,000 deaths, 112 were due to enteric fever, but undefined intestinal disorders (over one year) were responsible for 1,050 deaths. In the City of Georgetown, the corresponding figures were forty-eight deaths from enteric fever and 217 from intestinal disorders. In the two largest medical districts of Demerara with a population of 50,000, lying adjacent to Georgetown, the average mortality for the past seven years was as follows: Dysentery, 46; enteric fever, 6; other intestinal disorders, 89. Deaths from all causes, 1,124. The Surgeon-General for Trinidad and Tobago reports that in 1920, the deaths in the Colonial and District Hospitals were as follows: Dysentery, 135; enteric fever, 191; diarrhoea and enteritis, 84. Deaths from all causes, 1,875. In the island of St. Vincent, with a population of 54,000, the statistics for 1920 are limited, but one table gives the following details of deaths: Dysentery, 24; enteric fever, 2; diarrhcea and enteritis, 84. Deaths from all causes, 594. In Grenada, population 75,000, the Colonial Surgeon's report for 1920 gives: Dysentery, 99; enteric fever, 37; diarrhaea and enteritis, 304. Deaths from all causes, 1,318. The island of Jamaica is the most populous of the West Indian Colonies, and the figures for its capital, Kingstown, may be taken as representative: