. Rural sanitation in the tropics : being notes and observations in the Malay Archipelago, Panama and other lands. number ofother estates. Next to a proper sewer system, thisis the most satisfactory way of dealing with the nightsoil of a native labour force. On one of this group of estates I saw a largetank or well, surrounded by wire netting ; the cooliesdraw water from it by means of a small semi-rotatoryhand pump. The —In a much more hopeful spirit,I sailed the same night for New Amsterdam to visitthe Courantyne coast, which was reported as beingthe healthiest part of British Gu
. Rural sanitation in the tropics : being notes and observations in the Malay Archipelago, Panama and other lands. number ofother estates. Next to a proper sewer system, thisis the most satisfactory way of dealing with the nightsoil of a native labour force. On one of this group of estates I saw a largetank or well, surrounded by wire netting ; the cooliesdraw water from it by means of a small semi-rotatoryhand pump. The —In a much more hopeful spirit,I sailed the same night for New Amsterdam to visitthe Courantyne coast, which was reported as beingthe healthiest part of British Guiana. I was alsoanxious to meet the Rev. James Aitken, who withDr Rowland had made such valuable and extensiveinvestigations into the mosquitoes of British Guiana,that the insects of that region are better known thanin nine out of ten places in the tropics. Arriving atdaylight I was met by Mr Aitken, and discovered ina short time that we had been fellow students atGlasgow University more than twenty years before. Mr Aitken told me that he had been in BritishGuiana for nine years, during which period he had. COURANTYNE COAST 287 had only two attacks of fever ; the first was six yearsafter his arrival. His wife had been seven years inthe country and had never been attacked. He toldme that after a drought in the previous year whichhad killed out the fish in a pond in his garden,A. albimamcs had appeared in it in large was quite exceptional to find larvae where therewere fish. There were certain places containingwater where he had never got larvae, such as thelarge trench behind the town ; for over a year he hadmade constant observations of it without ever gettinglarvae. I saw this trench later in the day ; it was fullof vegetation, and at first sight appeared to bean ideal place for larvae, but I found none. After seeing Mr Aitkens collection of insects, andsatisfying myself that his C albipes was identicalwith A. albimanus of Panama, we started in amotor-car for Port
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