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No. 15.
THE LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE to COLONIAL
SIR,
OFFICE.
(Received March 12, 1907.)
Acknowledged March 14, 1907.]
B 10, Exchange Buildings, Liverpool, March 11, 1907. Report of the Tropical Diseases Advisory Committee.
WITH reference to my letter of the 8th of February,* enclosing copy of letter addressed to the Secretary of the Tropical Diseases Advisory Committee by the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine on the above-named subject, and copy of the statement referred to therein, I am directed to inform you that the Committee of the School have reconsidered the matter, and have requested the Secretary of that Committee kindly to withdraw their letter in question.
SIR,
Annexure to No. 15.
I am, &c.,
A. H. MILNE.
B 10, Exchange Buildings, Liverpool, March 11, 1907. Report of the Tropical Diseases Advisory Committee.
I AM to refer you to my letter of 8th February,* enclosing copy of letter signed by Professor Ross on behalf of the staff of the School, on the subject of the report of the Tropical Diseases Advisory Committee [Cd. 3306] and to say that the Committee of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine desire to withdraw the letter in question. They will be obliged, therefore, if you will kindly not lay it before the Tropical Diseases Advisory Committee as originally requested.
A copy of this letter has been sent to the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies.
The Secretary,
Tropical Diseases Advisory Committee,
Colonial Office,
Attached to 5018
(Private.)
DEAR MR. Lucas,
Downing Street, London, S.W.
No. 16.
MR. A. H. MILNE to MR. C. P. LUCAS. [See No. 17.]
I am, &c.,
A. H. MILNE.
The Incorporated Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine,
B 10, Exchange Buildings, Liverpool, March 12, 1907.
I WROTE yesterday officially withdrawing the School's letter with regard to the report of the Tropical Diseases Advisory Committee. I read your lettert in detail only to Sir Alfred Jones. To the Committee I mentioned you had wriften and suggested the advisability of taking your advice with regard to their letter, which they agreed to.
Professor Ross (who has not seen your private letterf to me) was afraid that his attitude might be misinterpreted by the Colonial Office authorities, so he asked for permission to write you a short line on the subject also. I enclose his letter herewith. It is, I gather, in the nature of a private communication.
• No. 8.
I am, &c.,
A. H. MILNE.
↑ No. 9.
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Enclosure in No. 16.
The Incorporated Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine,
Johnston Tropical Laboratory, University of Liverpool,
March 9, 1907.
DEAR MR. Lucas,
COULD you possibly inform me when the report on the measures taken against malaria in British Colonies will be brought out by the Colonial Office?
You may remember that this report was ordered last year by the Secretary of State. Next September I am to give an address before the International Congress of Hygiene at Berlin on the measures taken against malaria in all British and American posses- sions, and the value of my paper will, of course, be very greatly enhanced if I could obtain authentic information regarding malaria in the Crown Colonies.
Some time ago I wrote on behalf of our staff to the Committee of this School regarding the report of the Advisory Committee of the Tropical Diseases Research Fund, and asking for a ruling from the Advisory Committee as to the amount of detail which was to be put into the accounts of our work furnished to the Committee. My letter was forwarded to the Colonial Office, but our Secretary, Mr. Milne, has told me that you have suggested its withdrawal. To this, of course, I have no objec- tion whatever so long as you have been able to see the difficulty raised. Would it not be possible to make some such ruling for the guidance of those who benefit by the fund? Should we send in the entire papers or give only a brief abstract of them? Obviously, if some of the workers furnish entire reports while others furnish only brief abstracts, the work of the former will bulk more largely in the report of the Advisory Committee than would be perhaps quite fair to the latter. That is the only point which was raised in my letter.
Believe me, &c.,
Attached to 5018
DEAR PROFESSOR ROSS,
No. 17.
MR. C. P. LUCAS to PROFESSOR ROSS. [Answered by No. 19.]
RONALD Ross.
Downing Street, March 13, 1907. I ENCLOSE, but not for publication, copies of the despatches which we have received up to date on the subject of measures taken against malaria in the Colonies, but fully half the Colonies have not answered so far and, therefore, we are at present suspending publication.
As regards the second part of your letter* I can only say that what the Advisory Committee of the Tropical Diseases Research Fund want to receive for the purposes of their annual report, is such a clear account of scientific research which has been definitely aided from the resource of the fund, as will be intelligible to the ordinary reader and convince the contributories to the fund that their money is being well spent. It is quite impossible to lay down a hard and fast rule that so much space shall be allotted each year in the report to this or that subject or to the work of one individual or institution compared with another, and I fear that I cannot hold out hope that the committee will think it either advisable or possible to give any ruling to that effect.
Believe me, &c.,
9653
SIR,
No. 18.
(Received March 16, 1907.)
C. P. LUCAS.
DR. G. H. F. NUTTALL to COLONIAL OFFICE.
[Answered by Nos. 21 and 34.]
3, Cranmer Road, Cambridge, March 15, 1907.
IN connection with my application for a grant toward the establishment of a
• Enclosure in No. 16.
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