§ Captain Kerbyasked the Minister of Health what steps are being taken by his Department to warn the public, as a preventive measure, that the debilitating genetic disease known as sickle-cell anæmia, not present in the indigenous 2W to a number of forms of residential care besides that of elderly people. Meantime the short courses for heads of homes for the elderly run by the National Old People's Welfare Council are expected to continue.