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2. The Reports of the London and Liverpool Schools were considered. Sir R. Moor drew attention to the fact that the opportunities for the clinical instruction of pupils in Liverpool were deficient, partly on account of somewhat strained rela- tions between the staff of the Southern Hospital and the doctors of the School. Dr. Rose Bradford suggested that matters might be improved by appointing one of the Hospital Staff to a post in the School. After some discussion it was decided to call attention to the fact that in the Liverpool School report no particulars were given as to the amount of clinical instruction available, and to ask for information on the point.
3. The report of Mr. Lees's appointment as Student in Medical Entomology was received.
4. Sir P. Manson's memorandum as to the organization of work in the several Government laboratories was discussed in detail. Sir W. Ridgeway pointed out that if the Committee corresponded directly with the Medical Officers in charge of the laboratories and gave them directions much annoyance would be caused to the Governors and to the Principal Medical Officers, whose co-operation was essential if satisfactory results were to be obtained. It was therefore agreed, on the proposal of Sir C. Lucas, that a circular (to be drafted by the Colonial Office representatives and submitted to Sir P. Manson and Sir W. Ridgeway) should, if Lord Elgin approved, be sent to the Colonies concerned, putting as a suggestion from the Secretary of State the substance of Sir P. Manson's proposals. These proposals were then discussed seriatim. It was agreed that the suggestions to the Directors should in all cases go through the Principal Medical Officer and be made in the name of the Secretary of State on the advice of the Committee, and that the speci- men letter of instructions should not be embodied in the circular. In any case Dr. Rose Bradford said he deprecated the Committee undertaking to criticise work done by the Directors; such criticism should be left to the scientific world generally. With regard to the fourth of the proposed conditions, it was agreed to alter it to provide that the Director should be asked to report what line of research he intended to engage in, so that the Committee could offer suggestions and advice. It was also agreed that it should be laid down that it was undesirable to employ the Director in any other work, save in very exceptional circumstances. After discussion it was agreed that No. 5 of the draft conditions should be altered to provide that publication of work by the Director of the laboratory, as such, and in the name of the laboratory should be subject to the approval of the Colonial Government, which would, of course, receive any. assistance which the Committee could give in case of doubt.
5. Satisfaction was expressed at the increase of the grant from the Imperial Exchequer to the Fund, and it was agreed to ask the Liverpool School in what precise manner it was intended to expend the grant.
6. The proposals of the Royal Society for research work at the Entebbe Laboratory were approved, and it was decided that the Society should be so informed, and asked to prepare a detailed scheme and estimate for submission to the Treasury, by whom the funds would fall to be provided. Dr. Rose Bradford said that the Society would readily undertake this part of the work.
7. The Committee recommended that the period of service of the officers appointed to serve in the Medical Research Institute for West Africa should be eight months in Africa and four at home.
8. The suggestions of the Acting Principal Medical Officer, Sierra Leone, were noted, but it was decided that no action was necessary as the main question raised of the length of the course of instruction-had been already dealt with by the Committee. It was also decided not to print the despatch in the Blue Book.
9. It was agreed that the funds at the disposal of the Committee should be allocated as before, i.e., £1,000 to the London School (in addition to the proportion of the grant of £1,000 for entomology), £500 to the Liverpool School (in addition to the extra £500 from Imperial funds), £100 to the Student in Medical Entomology, £750 to the Professor of Protozoology at London University, and on the motion of Mr. Read £35 was granted to enable a Cyprus medical officer to study in the Greek Islands the disease "Ponos" which is believed to be related to the Kala-azar of India.
10. It was decided that the report should, as last year, be drawn up by the Colonial Office members and submitted first to Sir P. Manson and then to all the Committee before being presented to the Secretary of State and published. It
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was also agreed that the University of London should be asked for some report on Professor Minchin's work as Professor of Protozoology, and that if the Royal Society would furnish a report on their recent investigations as to sleeping sickness, it could be included in the appendices to the report. It was also agreed to publish in extenso the report as to anti-malarial measures which Mr. Read had in hand.
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No. 69.
DR. G. H. F. NUTTALL to MR. READ.
(Received December 3, 1907.)
[Answered by No. 76.]
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I beg to state that Mr. Lees (the recently-appointed Research Student in Medical Entomology) is about to accept an appointment in the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, and will, therefore, in a few days be obliged to resign his studentship. I have another man in view, who has been highly recommended to me, a Mr. F. P. Jepson. I should like to know if I may appoint this gentleman forthwith, so that we shall not lose time with the research work which has been undertaken by Mr Lees, with whom he can collaborate for some weeks, at any rate. The conditions of the studentship were that the appointment lay in my hands, and I trust that you will leave it to my judgment that the proper man is appointed.
Believe me, &c.,
G. H. F. NUTTALL.
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No. 70.
SIERRA LEONE.
THE SECRETARY OF STATE to THE GOVERNOR.
Downing Street, December 3, 1907.
SIR,
I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch, No. 349, of the 27th of August,* forwarding a memorandum prepared by Dr. R. H. Kennan on the subject of the work done in the Colonial laboratories and the London and Liverpool Schools of Tropical Medicine.
2. Dr. Kennan's memorandum was brought before the Advisory Committee for the Tropical Disease Research Fund at their meeting on the 29th of November, and was read with interest.
I have, &c.,
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GENTLEMEN,
No. 71.
COLONIAL OFFICE to THE ROYAL SOCIETY.
ELGIN.
Downing Street, December 5, 1907.
WITH reference to your letter of the 16th of August,† I am directed by the Earl of Elgin to inform you that at their meeting on the 29th of November, the Advisory Committee for the Tropical Diseases Research Fund approved the recom- mendations of the Royal Society as to the carrying on of further research work at the Entebbe Laboratory.
2. Lord Elgin will be glad if the Royal Society will be so good as to advise him in detail of the arrangements which they would propose for carrying the scheme
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† No. 53.
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