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No. 10.
WINDWARD ISLANDS (GREnada).
THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
(Received 21 February, 1910.) [Answered, Miscellaneous, March 14, 1910.]
Grenada, 29 January, 1910. REFERRING to your Lordship's despatch, miscellaneous, of the 21st December last, I have the honour to report that the contribution of £50 a year payable by Grenada to the Tropical Diseases Research Fund was understood to be for a limited period, and consequently no provision was made in the Estimates of the current year to meet the expenditure.
2. The Colony will be happy to continue the amount as and from the next financial year, and for this purpose provision has been made in the Estimates for
1910-11.
3. In this connection, however, I would observe that I have received an appeal from Sir Francis Lovell, the Dean of the London Tropical School of Medicine, who visited Grenada personally, for an annual subsidy to that School. The Colony cannot afford more than one annual subscription of £50 in aid of tropical research, and I would ask your Lordship to consider whether this amount might not be paid to the London Tropical School in future instead of to the Tropical Diseases Research Fund; the Government of this Colony would be quite in favour of this.
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No. 11.
I have, &c.,
J. HAYES SADLER,
Governor..
THE SECRETARY OF STATE to THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL And GOVERNORS.
(Australia. No. 66.)
(Cape of Good Hope. No. 39.) (Natal. No. 54.)
MY LORD, SIR,
(Transvaal. No. 34.) (Orange River Colony. No. 23.)
Downing Street, 24 February, 1910. I HAVE the honour to transmit to [Your Excellency] [you], for the information of your Ministers, the accompanying [copies] [copy] of the Report of the Proceed- ings of the Imperial Malaria Conference, held at Simla in October last.
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No. 12.
I have, &c.,
CREWE.
THE SECRETARY OF STATE to THE GOVERNORS OF CERTAIN TROPICAL COLONIES AND PROTECTORATES. (Circular.)
Downing Street, February 25, 1910.
SIR,
I HAVE the honour to transmit to you, for your information and for communi- cation to the medical officers concerned, copies of the Report of the Advisory Committee for the Tropical Diseases Research Fund for the year 1909, which has been presented to Parliament.
I have, &c.,
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No. 13.
MAURITIUS.
ANNUAL REPORT ON THE MEDICAL AND HEALTH DEPARTMENT FOR 1908.
(Extract.)
(Received in Colonial Office, 26 February, 1910.)
V.-MALARIA.
· [ Published as No. 2 in Appendix I. tv [Cd. 5514], February, 1911.]
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No. 14.
COLONIAL OFFICE to MR. O. HARRISON WILLIAMS. SIR,
AM directed by the Earl of Crewe to inform you that his Lordship under-
Downing Street, 26 February, 1910. stands that provision was made in the will of the late Sir Alfred Jones, K.C.M.G., for the devotion of part of his estate for the purposes of research in tropical diseases.
2. In this connection Lord Crewe would desire to call your attention to the work done through the instrumentality of the Tropical Diseases Research Fund. Full details as to the fund and the names of the members of the Advisory Committee, by whom the Secretary of State is guided in its administration, will be found in the Reports of the Fund for the years 1907, 1908, and 1909,* copies of which are enclosed.
3. It will be seen from these reports that the Fund is supported by practically all those Colonies in which tropical diseases are prevalent and by the Government of India, and that the Imperial Government, in recognition of the importance of the work done under the direction of the Advisory Committee, make to it an annual grant of £1,000 a year.
4. I am to add that the contributions made by the Colonies to this Fund by no means represent the total amount of the expenses incurred by them in connection with the investigation of tropical diseases.
5. Ceylon, the Straits Settlements, the Federated Malay States, and Hong Kong make direct grants of £100 a year each to the London School of Tropical Medicine. In Ceylon there exists a Bacteriological Institute the Director of which receives a salary of £650 a year, and in which a great deal of valuable research work has been carried out in connection with yaws and sprue. In the Federated Malay States a costly Research Institute, with an adequate staff, has been established at Kuala Lumpur, and much valuable work has recently been done in it in connection with beri-beri. There are also bacteriological institutes in the Straits Settlements and Hong Kong.
6. The West African Colonies and Protectorates have provided funds for the establishment and maintenance of a central Research Institute at Lagos; and it is proposed to establish small local laboratories in each of the West African Colonies to enable the members of the medical staff to carry out special pieces of research work.
A bacteriological laboratory has been established in British Guiana under the direction of an experienced bacteriologist and of an assistant. Great import- ance attaches to the research work with regard to leprosy which has recently been carried on in that laboratory. There are also bacteriological laboratories in Trinidad and Saint Lucia.
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While much has been done by means of the sum at the disposal of the Fund, Lord Crewe is satisfied that the usefulness of the Fund would be greatly extended could the means at its disposal be increased, and he would be glad if it were found possible to devote some portion of Sir Alfred Jones's bequest to this purpose, with which he feels sure that Sir Alfred himself would have been in full sympathy.
I have, &c.,
CREWE.
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