Annual report on the Gambia / Colonial Office.

Date:
[1949]
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Credit: Annual report on the Gambia / Colonial Office. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Money and postal order transactions were as follows : Money Orders issued and paid . 1948 £94.930 1949 £51.364 Revenue derived .... 572 337 Postal Orders issued and paid . 10,315 13,296 Revenue derived .... 71 93 Revenue and expenditure was as follows : Total Revenue .... £9.700 £11.335 Total Expenditure .... 5>900 5.636 Excess of Revenue over Expenditure . 3,800 5.699 Chapter 12: Research The Government Entomologist continued work on the bionomics of the malaria vectors, particularly on Anopheles Gambiae, var. melas, and on the control of breeding by varying the salinity in ponded waters. The Human Nutrition Research Unit of the Colonial Medical Research Council, both at the Research station at Fajara, near Bathurst, and at Genieri in Central Division where its associated Field Working Party operates, continued very actively its programme of research, and investigation of the possibility of early and economic “ grafting ” of mechanical cultivation of crops on the peasant economy.
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