ABSTRACT
It is obviously in the interests of all concerned that the conditions in which the worker lives should be as far as possible healthy and agreeable; the employer wishes to reduce his sickness percentage and to maintain the popularity of his estate. The combined incentives will produce conditions which are almost always an improvement on those obtaining in the home villages. Modern labour lines are almost always superior in construction to the native type of house, while of necessity due attention will be paid to sanitation as a safeguard against outbreaks of disease among the workers. Civilization in Europe has enabled enormous progress to be made in the food-supply. The inclusion of some anti-scorbutic in any diet is such an elementary necessity that the African has discovered this for himself; every tribe will be found to have some system of utilizing to the full such supplies of the requisite ingredient as are to be had.
