Pamphlets

• Reference:GB 250 9/L/12/1/25-36
• Dates of Creation:1906-1915
• Language of Material:English

• Scope and Content

  25: 1906. Report of the Commissioners appointed to make special enquiry into the rate of the general mortality of the colony, and more especially into the excessive infantile mortality thereof. Combined Court of British Guiana’s Special Session. 25 pages, 32cm, letterpress.

  26: Oct 1906. ‘On reports on mortality, and especially infantile mortality, in British Guiana and Barbados’ by Sir Ronald Ross. 6 pages, 32cm. Manuscript letter to A.H. Milne in the form of a report.

  26a: 1907. Drainage by-laws of Georgetown, 8 pages, 25cm, typescript.

  27: 1908. Model medical report, Surgeon General’s Office of British Guiana, also covering letter. 11 pages, 32cm, letterpress.

  28: 23 Apr 1909. ‘A plea for up-to-date preventive medicine in British Guiana: an address delivered at the second quarterly meeting of the British Guiana Branch of the British Medical Association…on Friday, Apr 23, 1909’, by A.T. Ozzard. 15 pages, 22cm, letterpress.

  29: 30 Aug 1911. ‘Hints and suggestions as to the purification of vat waters’ by E.P. Minett, The Official Gazette (British Guiana). 1 page, 32cm, letterpress, reprint.

  30: 1911-1915. Malarial fever and anti-malarial measures on sugar estates. Annual return: 1911-1912; 1913-1914; 1914-1915, British Guiana Surgeon General’s Office. 32cm, 8 sides, letterpress.

  31: 1912. ‘Review of the milk question in British Guiana’ by K.S. Wise and E.P. Minett, Journal of the Royal Sanitary Institute, Colonial supplement, pp. 75-84. 25.5cm, letterpress, 2 copies, reprint.

  32: 4 Oct 1913. Report of the epidemiological survey and investigation into probable causes of sickness amongst mules on plantations Bath, Blairmont, Providence and Springlands by E.P. Minett, The Official Gazette (British Guiana), 1 page, 32cm, letterpress, reprint.

  33: 1911-1915. ‘Supplementary report on mule and horse disease in the county of Barbice’ by E.P. Minett, The Official Gazette (British Guiana), 1 page, 32cm, letterpress, reprint.

  34: 1913. ‘A review of the various types of water supplies of British Guiana’ by K.S. Wise and E.P. Minett, Journal of the Royal Sanitary Institution, 2nd Colonial Supplement, pp. 82-95. 25.5cm, letterpress.

  35: 1914. ‘Report…on the Peter’s Hall district (British Guiana) by J.E.A. Ferguson, 12 pages, 32cm, letterpress.

  36: Jan 1913. Photographs of British Guiana: a. Old canal completely filled and transformed into an avenue, on the advice of Drs. Wise and Minett.; b. Old canal filled in with town rubbish.; c. Type of old water canal running through the streets.

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