OUTBREAK OF MEASLES  REPORTED:
(The Daily Chronicle February 4, 1961).
An outbreak of measles has been reported.
Since the outbreak a few days ago scores of people from many parts have been flocking the out patients and casualty departments.People from all walks of life have been affected and had to be taken to the Georgetown Hospital.
Quite a few cases received attention from private practitioners.
Workers and school children who are affected are advised by Doctors to stay in bed for about three days.
Mixing with others will spread the infection.
More than one third of the persons affected are those between the ages of 1 to 19.

MEDICATED SALT TO BE USED IN TREATMENT AGAINST MALARIA:
(The Daily Chronicle January 18th 1961).
A new campaign to eradicate malaria from B.G’s interior will be officially launched on Saturday morning.
At the Kingston laboratory all shipments of salt to the interior are being treated with a special anti-malarial drug which does not affect the taste smell or color of the salt.
The population of the interior for whose protection the campaign is being launched, numbers about 30,000 in an area of about 50,000 square miles.
The use of medicated salt is a technique which is part of a world wide malaria eradication drive.
It is already being used in Trinidad, Venezuela and Brazil  where the campaign began six months ago and is now beginning to reach the Rio Branco across the frontier.
After the coming week end, all salt supplies to the North West District , Pomeroon River area, Bartica , Cuyuni and Mazaruni  and the Rupununi will be medicated  salt.
The shipping of any other kind of salt will be illegal.
The price of the medicated salt will be the same as the usual salt.
The Health Ministry is asking for the cooperation of all salt dealers in the interior.

DIAMOND OUTPUT UP:
(The Daily Chronicle January 20, 1961.)
The big diamond “shouts” in the Ekereku area last year have contributed largely to the bumper production of nearly five million dollars in diamonds recorded at the end of 1960.
Last year’s diamond production rose by about two million dollars to a total of $4, 915,900.
The current local price of diamonds is fifty dollars per carat.
The price of gold is fifty five dollars per ounce.
Gold production last year was about 1,000 ounces less than in the previous year.

GOLD MEDAL FOR 1960 LITERATURE:
(The Daily Chronicle January 5, 1961).
Mr. Jacob W. Chinapen ,  Head teacher  of Massiah CM. school on the Upper Corentyne and also Chairman of the Upper Corentyne Regional Youth Council has received the gold medal which he won for competitive literature in 1960.
It was the top prize which he was fortunate to obtain for his collection of poems entitled “Albion Wilds”.
Mr. Chinapen hails from Pln. Albion and it was from there that this versatile teacher got the inspiration to write.
Second prize went to Mr. Wordsworth McAndrew for his poem entitled “Old Higue”.
At the presentation ceremony was Mr. A.J.Seymour who was Chairman of the Committee that supervised the Competition.

STABROEK MARKET ZONING BEGINS MONDAY:
(The Daily Chronicle January 11, 1961).
Zoning of the eighty year old Stabroek Market will begin on Monday Town Clerk Mr. Edgar Adams said yesterday.
He said that Stall holders had been given until January 15th to make alternative arrangements for carrying on their business while the work was in progress.
The zoning of the market which was constructed in 1881 will streamline its appearance, facilitate shopping and relieve congestion.
When alterations are completed, grocery, fruit , vegetables , drugs and cloth stores etc! will each be located in its own section.
Mr. Adams said that the work should be completed within a few weeks.

CIGARETTE ENDS CAUSED MOST OF 1960 FIRES:
(The Daily Chronicle January 14, 1961).
The Georgetown Fire Brigade answered more than 200 calls from members of the public last year.
It was disclosed that most of the fires occurring during the year were caused by cigarette ends and matches .
Fires caused by faulty electrical equipment and appliances fell 11 short of those caused by cigarette ends and matches.

AFTER 26 YEARS TOGETHER: MAN LEAVES “WIFE”, 11 CHILDREN TO WED “GUIANESE” NURSE:
(The Daily Chronicle  January 14th 1961)
A woman and her eleven children drove to a one-shingled boarding house yesterday  in a vain effort to stop the marriage of her common law husband with whom she had lived for twenty eight years and had borne  eleven children, the last one born last year.
Angry no longer the woman had appealed to the Mayor and the Mayor advised her to have it stopped.
But 44 year old Christopher Payne, a city barber, was happily married behind closed doors to Ingrid Niles, a nurse born in Barbados but domiciled for ten years in B.G.
She was married in B.G. but claimed that her husband died some time ago.
Estelle Butcher complained that twice she had prepared her wedding outfit and had gone to Church to marry Christopher but he had not turned up.
She said that one day she received a letter from her rival Ingrid and when she opened it fire flew out.
From then Christopher had started moving out his belongings from the home which they shared.

FINED FOR MAKING FALSE REPORT:
(The Daily Chronicle January 16, 1961).
Pleading guilty on Saturday to a charge of giving false information to the Police on Friday,  Ona Williams was fined $7.50 or one month.
She made a  report to a Police Constable  that Milton Smith had run away with 25 cents that she had dropped  in Croal street.
Investigations revealed that the report was false.
Smith was however made to pay a similar fine  for behaving in a very  very disorderly manner when held by the Police.

CANADIAN EXPEDITION FOR B.G.’s  JUNGLES:
(The Daily Chronicle January 14, 1961).
An expedition from the Royal Ontario Museum  arrives in the country next week for an expedition into the jungle.
It’s mission is to trap and study the South American country’s  wild life.
Dr. R.L. Peterson 41 is the leader of the party.
They hope to find jaguars, cougars,  rodents, deer, peccarys- pig like animals- and some of the 100 varieties of bats.
The manatee, an aquatic animal which is believed to have prompted the old stories of mermaids, will be high on the list.
Present knowledge of B.G.’s fauna Dr. Peterson explained,  is based on collections made before 1900.

Clifford Stanley can be reached to discuss any of the foregoing articles at cliffantony@gmail.com or cell phone # 694 0913.