Colonial Medical Service in the Fiji Islands

The Colonial Medical Service

A meeting was held under tlie presidency of Sir Joseph Fayrer, Bart., K.C.S.I., in the Bast Conference Hall of the Imperial Institute, on Wednesday, March 2nd, 1898, and Mr. James Cantlie gave an address on the Organisation of the Colonial Medical Department. The scheme which was proposed for consideration was based upon that contained in a paper on the organisation of the Colonial Medical Serv...

The Geology of the Fiji Islands.

Starting with 35 grams of ethyl aminoacetate we recovered practically one-half of the aminoacid ester in the form of its hydrochloride, and obtained 19 grams of the isothiocyanacetate. This reaction isbeing investigated further and will be applied for the preparation of other new types of polyketide mustard oils. If this method of synthesis finds as wide an application as we anticipate, it will...

Trachoma Mapping in the Pacific Fiji, Solomon Islands and Kiribati

Fairness without Punishment: Behavioral Experiments in the Yasawa Islands, Fiji

T chapter reports results from three behavioral experiments done in the villages of Teci and Dalomo on Yasawa Island in Fiji. We performed the dictator game (DG), the strategy method ultimatum game (UG), and the third-party punishment game (TPG), as explained in chapter 3. For comparison to an established reference population, we also performed an identical set of experiments among U.S. undergr...

Colonial Medical Research

^ to say a few words about this aspect of British Colonial stewardship. (C central organizing body is the Colonial Medical Research Committee It is aided by regional organizations in some of the Colonial territories, t^e ?S1: "^r*ca by the East African Bureau of Research in Medicine and Hygiene and ^frieaK "^r*can Standing Advisory Committee for Medical Research, and in West \ye , ky a similar ...