§ Mr. Russellasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what improvement has been achieved in the health of the people of British Guiana in recent years.
§ Mr. LytteltonOf the major communicable diseases in British Guiana, malaria has decreased substantially from 15,490 notified cases and 290 deaths, in 1947, to 181 cases and 28 death in 1952. There has also been a decline in the number of notified cases of enteric fever and pulmonary tuberculosis. Other detailed improvements are too complex to summarise, but over the past eight years the infant mortality rate has fallen from 101 per thousand live births to 82, and over approximately the same period the expectation of life at births has increased by four years.