MY DEAR SIR,
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Enclosure 2 in No. 20.
Royal College of Physicians, London, S.W.,
January 31, 1907. AGREEABLY to my promise in my reply to your letter of the 25th instant, I beg leave to inform you that the report of which the enclosed is a copy was adopted to-day at a General Meeting of this College.
As I believe that this report has not yet been adopted by the Royal College of Surgeons, I must ask you to consider it as confidential until you have also heard from that College. By their calendar I see that their next Council Meeting is on February 7th.
A. H. Milne, Esquire.
I am, &c.,
EDWD. LIVEING,
Registrar.
The Committee of Management have, in accordance with the request of the Royal Colleges, considered the scheme for an extension of the course of instruction at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, such scheme having been forwarded by the Secretary of that School with the request that the Royal Colleges will express their views on the proposed alterations.
The Committee are of opinion that so far as the scheme relates to the subjects of tropical medicine, tropical surgery, and tropical hygiene, it deserves approval. The Committee note with satisfaction that it is proposed to afford greater opportuni- ties for clinical observation than exist at the present time.
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No. 21.
COLONIAL OFFICE to DR. G. H. F. NUTTALL.
Downing Street, March 21, 1907.
I AM directed by the Earl of Elgin to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 15th instant, respecting your suggestion for a grant towards the establish- ment of a research studentship in medical entomology in Cambridge, and to inform you that your letter will be laid before the Advisory Board of the Tropical Diseases Research Fund at their next meeting in May next.
I am, &c.,
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Surgeon-General Branfoot.
Dr. Rose Bradford. Sir P. Manson.
Sir R. Moor.
Mr. Lucas.
Mr. Read, and
Mr. Keith (Secretary).
Mr. Lucas's memorandum* was approved as a whole, and it was agreed that as each occasion arises, the four medical members of the Committee should form a sub- committee with power to co-opt other members, officials or otherwise, and to call evidence, the Colonial Office supplying a list of suitable officials on leave, and giving any other assistance necessary; the reports to be treated as strictly confidential, and a skilled Secretary, selected by the Committee, to be employed in each case.
It was agreed that the above should be submitted to the Secretary of State in the following form:-
If the Secretary of State approves, the Committee will be prepared to advise on such questions as the administrative measures to be taken for combatting a given disease in a given area, and propose, in order to do so, that their medical members should, in the first instance, on each occasion that arises form a sub-committee, the sub-committee's report to be strictly confidential, and any opinion or recommendation made to be that of the whole Committee. The medical members would be paid suitable fees for their attendance at the sub-committee, and for the necessary secretarial work. It was further agreed that the Secretary of State should be advised that in the opinion of the Committee it is desirable that the Powers interested in preventing the spread of sleeping sickness should be invited to a Conference for the purpose of framing a scheme of co-operation for the investigation and management of the subject.
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No. 22.
H. BERTRAM COX.
(No. 96.)
MY LORD,
COLONIAL OFFICE to THE LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE.
Downing Street, March 23, 1907.
SIR,
I AM directed by the Earl of Elgin to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 19th instant,† transmitting copies of letters received from the Royal College of Surgeons and Royal College of Physicians approving the proposals for a revised course of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, and to inform you that your letter and its enclosures will be brought before the Advisory Board of the Tropical Disease Research Fund at the next ordinary meeting in May.
I am, &c.,
No. 23.
H. BERTRAM COX.
MINUTES OF AN EXTRAORDINARY MEETING OF THE TROPICAL DISEASES RESEARCH FUND ADVISORY COMMITTEE, CALLED FOR 8TH APRIL, 1907.
AGENDA.
To consider proposals made by the Commissioner of Uganda for dealing with sleeping sickness.
(Minute and papers attached.‡)
Present:
Sir West Ridgeway (in the Chair).
Sir T. Barlow.
No. 24. MAURITIUS.
THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received April 13, 1907.)
Government House, Mauritius, March 6, 1907. I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch, General, of the 6th December last,† in reference to the question of the training of officers in research in tropical diseases and in the carrying on of research work in the Colonies, and requesting that six-monthly reports be supplied to your Lordship of the work done in the Government Laboratory in this Colony.
2. The work done by the Government Analyst here can hardly be called research work, and your Lordship's request will be complied with as soon as the new bacteriological Laboratory has been started.
3. Dr. Paddle's last report will be found as an enclosure to the annual report of the Medical Director, transmitted under cover of my despatch, No. 476, of the 28th of November, 1906.
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CAVENDISH BOYLE.
No. 25. BRITISH GUIANA.
THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received April 15, 1907.)
Government House, Georgetown, Demerara, March 19, 1907. [Printed as No. 1 in Appendix VII. to [Cd. 3992], March, 1908.]
(No. 75.)
* See No. 5.
† No. 121 in Miscellaneous No. 173.
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* No. 18.
↑ No. 20.
See No. 5.