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No. 45.
THE LONDON SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE to COLONIAL OFFICE.
(Received July 6, 1907.)
[Answered by No. 48]
Seamen's Hospital Society, Dreadnought Hospital,
Greenwich, S.E., July 5, 1907.
SIR,
I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 6th ultimo, No. 37292/1906,* in which you intimate that the Earl of Elgin is prepared to place at the disposal of the London School of Tropical Medicine a sum of £1,000 to be spread over three years to maintain an entomologist at the School on the following conditions:--
(1) That reports on the work of the Entomological Department be presented to the Advisory Committee of the Tropical Diseases Research Fund half yearly.
(2) That the entomologist shall undertake to make a collection of the noxious insects of the Colonies, a separate collection to be made of the noxious insects from each Colony, and the collections to be kept in readiness for reference by Colonial officials or doctors.
(3) That the entomologist shall be ready to advise on any questions referred to him by the Tropical Diseases Research Fund Committee or by Colonial Governments.
The Committee understand from your letter that it is the desire of the Colonial Office that a separate collection of the noxious insects of each Colony shall be main- tained in the School. It is hoped that material will be sent to the School from the Colonies as the entomologist will be mainly engaged in his laboratory at the School and will not have the time to visit the Colonies himself for that purpose.
The Committee of the London School of Tropical Medicine believe that a suit- able entomologist can be obtained for about £300 per annum, and the Board of Management, acting on the recommendation of the School Committee, are prepared to accept the offer made by Lord Elgin.
I am at the same time requested to ask whether it would be agreeable to his Lordship to place at the disposal of the School a sum of £250 to assist in providing a suitable laboratory and equipment.
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I am,
&c.,
P. MICHELLI,
Secretary.
THE LONDON SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE to COLONIAL OFFICE. (Received July 5, 1907.)
SIR,
London School of Tropical Medicine, Royal Albert Dock, E.,
July 5, 1907.
I HAVE the honour to report that I am directed by the sub-committee appointed to consider the measures that should be adopted to deal with sleeping sickness in Uganda, to inform you that in the opinion of the sub-committee, after carefully considering the evidence, the most suitable measures should include:---
(1) Segregation of all persons known to be infected with trypanosomes in segregation camps which should be situated in places free from Glossina.
(2) Deportation [removal]f of the apparently healthy from fly-infested areas
to places where it is believed that no fly exists.
(3) Clearing of such bush as would afford shelter for fly at all fords, ferries, landing places and sources of water supplies for a limited area, and that such cleared areas should be kept clear of bush and cultivated
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with low-growing crops that would not afford a suitable shelter for the fly.
I have, &c.,
C. W. DANIELS, Secretary to the Sub-Committee.
H. J. Read, Esq., C.M.G.,
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No. 47.
MINUTES OF EXTRAORDINARY MEETING OF THE TROPICAL DISEASES
RESEARCH FUND ADVISORY COMMITTEE, 10TH JULY, 1907.
1.
PRESENT:
Sir R. Moor (in the Chair),
Sir T. Barlow,
Surgeon-General Branfoot, Dr. Rose Bradford,
Sir T. Holderness,
Sir P. Manson,
Mr. C. P. Lucas,
Mr. H. J. Read, and
Mr. Keith (Secretary).
The Minutes of the First Ordinary Meeting of the Committee were
approved.
2. The Committee considered the letter from the London School of the 5th of July. Mr. Lucas pointed out that the Colonial Governments would hardly like to be pressed again to make collections of insects, inasmuch as one collection had already been made for the Natural History Museum. The scientific members of the Committee urged that a collection at the London School was necessary for teaching purposes and for research, and in view of probable demands from the Liverpool School, suggested that duplicate collections should be obtained from the C'olonies. The Committee decided that the request for £250 from the London School for the provision of a laboratory must be declined.
The
3. The Committee received the report of the Sub-Committee on the question of the measures to be adopted for dealing with sleeping sickness in Uganda. Sub-Committee explained that they regarded all their recommendations as essentially independent and as deserving of adoption as a whole. They also desired to express their feeling that the local officers were fully alive to the necessities of the case and competent to carry out the measures contemplated. They also brought to the notice of the Committee the fact that there was at Entebbe a laboratory fully equipped for research, but not used, and therefore liable to deterioration, and strongly urged that steps be taken to send out an investigator under instructions to deal at the laboratory with some definite piece of work. Dr. Rose Bradford explained that the Royal Society had not contemplated the total disuse of the laboratory, but had merely advised that no further research to prove that sleeping sickness was due to the trypanosome and glossina was necessary, and he suggested that they should be given the opportunity of having the direction of any further research. After some discussion it was agreed, on Mr. Lucas's suggestion, that the Committee should report to the Secretary of State that they had received and had gladly adopted the report of the Sub-Committee; that they had learned with pleasure that in the opinion of the Sub-Committee, the local officers who had appeared as witnesses, were fully qualified to carry out their recommendations; that the Sub-Committee had drawn attention to the disuse of the laboratory at Entebbe, and had recommended that it should again be turned to some useful purpose; that the Committee fully concurred in this opinion and recommended that the Royal Society should be asked to advise as to whether and how work there should be resumed.
Sir R. Moor suggested the modification of the second recommendation by the substitution of the word "removal" for " deportation." This was agreed to, though
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