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This leaves a balance in hand of £350 which it is desirable to keep in order to meet any unforeseen expenditure during the year and which the Advisory Com- mittee have already refused to allot at the present time though pressed to do so.
4. The grants to the London and Liverpool Schools are devoted to the payment of the salaries of combined teachers and investigators in different branches of tropical medicine. The grant to the University of London is applied to the main- tenance of a professorship of protozoology, and the grant to Cambridge University to the maintenance of a research scholarship for entomology.
5. Most of the contributions from the self-supporting Colonies have been given for five years and it has always been considered that the most politic course to pursue is to wait until that period has elapsed and then appeal to those Colonies again, setting out the good results obtained by means of their contributions and asking them to increase them.
6. One report of the Advisory Committee for the fund has been issued as Parliamentary Paper [Cd. 3306], but, although considerable progress has been made, there has scarcely been time to obtain such important results as to justify a further appeal to the Colonies at the present moment.
7. On the other hand, several of the contributing Colonies have made, or are making, arrangements for research work on the spot, and this will render them less disposed to contribute to the fund, unless a very substantial record of work can be shown. The Federated Malay States have established a costly research institute at Kuala Lumpur; the Governments of Hong Kong, Ceylon, Trinidad, and British Guiana have all created special appointments with a view to carrying on continuously the investigation of the local diseases; and the four West African Colonies have now agreed to contribute towards the cost of a central research institute for the whole of British West Africa. The establishment of this institute will involve a capital expenditure of £2,000 and an annually recurrent expenditure of £1,500, by far the greater part of which it is proposed should be borne by them, only a small contribution being asked for from the State-aided Protectorate of Northern Nigeria. The Mauritius Government, again, have just agreed to pay a large fee to Professor Ronald Ross for going out to advise them as to preventive measures against malaria.
8. Their Lordships will see, therefore, that, quite apart from their contribu tions to the fund, the self-supporting Colonies are spending considerable sums on the investigation and prevention of tropical disease, and that it would be doubtful policy to ask them for further contributions to the fund at the present
moment.
9. At the same time the Liverpool School of Medicine is doing excellent work and the mere fact of their having discovered the value of atoxyl to the treatment of sleeping sickness entitles them, in Lord Elgin's opinion, to generous treatment at the hands of the Government. In these circumstances his Lordship would sug- gest that, with a view to affording them the further assistance which they require, the Imperial Government should supplement the grant of £500 which the School now receives from the Tropical Diseases Research Fund by a direct grant of a similar amount to be applied definitely to research work in connexion with sleeping sickness.
I am, &c.,
30759
No. 55.
TREASURY to COLONIAL OFFICE. (Received August 27, 1907.)
C. P. LUCAS.
SIR,
Treasury Chambers, August 27, 1907. I HAVE laid before the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury Mr. Lucas's letter of the 20th instant (26708/1907),* in which the Earl of Elgin recom- mends that the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, which receives a grant of £500 per annum from the Tropical Diseases Research Fund, should receive a further grant of £500 from Imperial Funds, to be applied to research work in connection with sleeping sickness.
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In reply, I am to state that my Lords are willing that the annual grant of £500, which is made from Sub-Head Z 1 of the Colonial Services Vote to the Tropical Diseases Research Fund, for a period of five years, from the 1st April, 1905, should, for the remainder of this period, be increased to £1,000; on the understanding (i) that the grant is subject to the same conditions as heretofore; (ii) that any additional expenditure falling within the current financial year can be met from savings on the vote generally; and (iii) that the Colonies shall be pressed for further contributions to the Fund when it seems possible successfully to do so.
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GENTLEMEN,
I am,
&c.,
WALTER RUNCIMAN.
No. 56.
COLONIAL OFFICE to THE ROYAL SOCIETY.
your
Downing Street, August 29, 1907. I AM directed by the Earl of Elgin to acknowledge the receipt of letter of the 16th instant and to thank you for the recommendations with regard to the investigation of sleeping sickness, which will receive due consideration.
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SIR,
No. 57.
I am, &c.,
H. W. JUST.
COLONIAL OFFICE to THE LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE.
Downing Street, September 2, 1907. I AM directed by the Earl of Elgin to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 25th of July in which you ask that the grant to the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine from Government funds should be increased by £500 a year.
2. Lord Elgin recognises the excellent work done by the Liverpool School, and he has, therefore, asked the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury to put at his disposal a further sum of £500 a year for the benefit of the work of the School. Their Lordships have now agreed to increase to £1,000 a year the grant now made from Imperial funds to the Tropical Disease Research Fund for a period of five years from the 1st of April, 1905, for the remainder of this period, on the under- standing that any additional expenditure falling within the current year can be met from savings on the Colonial Services Vote.
3. Lord Elgin is, therefore, glad to be able to inform the School that from the 1st of April, 1908, the grant will be increased to £1,000 a year, provided that the extra £500 is definitely devoted to research work in connection with sleeping sickness, and that the School furnishes the Tropical Disease Research Fund with satisfactory evidence of work done. He also hopes to be able to allot to the School the sum of £250 in respect of the period from the 1st of October, 1907, to the 31st of March, 1908, but he is not yet in a position to say definitely if funds for this purpose will be available.
I am,
&c.,
C. P. LUCAS.
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† Appendix II. to [Cd. 3992] March, 1908.