Consider the advisability of sending to the Colony of ... to examine thoroughly into the causes which determine the continuance of bubonic plague there and to advise measures generally or to the best means against its return after the present epidemic, which Mr Brodrick is now aware has been very serious and fatal.
It appears probable that Professor W. J. Simpson will be recommended to Mr Chamberlain as the person best fitted for this work. While Mr Chamberlain is aware that that gentleman's subdivision appointment to a Commission which is inquiring into the causes of enteric fever and dysentery in South Africa and this work in this connection must have him delayed by the temporary transfer, his services to the local Govt during the epidemic