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decided that the Advisory Committee should recommend the appointment of a veterinary expert with a salary of about £600 a year and an assistant at about £300, to carry out investigations in the Protectorate in the first instance, the total cost being estimated at about £1,500 a year, though Sir David Bruce was anxious that, if possible, £2,000 a year should be obtained.
(7.) The report from the Governor of Seychelles on the outbreak of Beri-beri was received, and it was agreed that the Committee need not take any action but might await a further report.
(8.) The Committee were invited to express their opinion as to whether the work done by Dr. Fraser and by Dr. Braddon with regard to the investigation of Beri-beri was of such value as to justify the bestowal upon these officers of some mark of His Majesty's approval of their work. The Committee agreed that they should express their sense of the value of the work done by these officers, but that they would prefer that another year or two years' experience of the results of the treatment of the disease should be had before expressing a definite opinion as to whether the thesis of the doctors in question had been made good.
(9.) It was agreed that the sum of £150 should be paid over to the Pellagra Investigation Committee.
Professor Ross, Sir David Bruce, Surgeon-General Branfoot, and Dr. Rose Bradford (by a note to the Secretary) expressed the view that Dr. Sambon did not appear to have done any valuable scientific work so far. It was agreed that it was necessary for the Committee to pay over the sum which they had formerly promised to grant if £450 was received, in view of the fact that that sum had practically been obtained.
(10.) Sir Charles Lucas raised the question of supporting the Memorial which had been addressed to the General Medical Council for the recognition of a Diploma in Tropical Medicine as a qualification for registration as a medical practitioner.
It was agreed that the Advisory Committee should strongly approve the pro- posal of the recognition of the diploma, and that their approval should be com. municated to the Medical Council by the Secretary of State for the Colonies.
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in conformity with the instruction contained in the last paragraph of His Lordship's despatch above noted, instructed the Crown Agents for the Colonies to cause pay- ment of this sum to be made to the Fund in respect of the year 1910-11.
His Excellency
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I have, &c.,
DANIEL T. TUDOR,
Administrator.
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir James Hayes Sadler,
K.C.M.G., C.B.,
Governor of the Windward Islands,
St. Vincent.
No. 41.
COLONIAL OFFICE to THE PELLAGRA INVESTIGATION COMMITTEE. SIR,
Downing Street, 3 June, 1910.
I AM directed by the Earl of Crewe to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 21st of May,* on the subject of the investigations into Pellagra which are being carried out by Dr. L. Sambon.
2. In reply, I am to inform you that your letter was laid before the Advisory Committee of the Tropical Diseases Research Fund at their meeting on the 26th of May, and that the Committee have recommended, and Lord Crewe has approved, that the sum of £150 provisionally promised from the Tropical Diseases Research Fund, shall now be paid to your Committee.
3. The Crown Agents for the Colonies have accordingly been authorised to pay this sum to you.
I am, &c.,
FRANCIS J. S. HOPWOOD.
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GENTLEMEN,
No. 42.
COLONIAL OFFICE to CROWN AGENTS.
Downing Street, 3 June, 1910.
I AM directed by the Earl of Crewe to inform you that he approves of your paying from the Tropical Diseases Research Fund the sum of £150 to Sir Lauder Brunton on behalf of the Pellagra Investigation Committee, being the amount of a grant which has been made by the Advisory Committee in connection with investi- gations into Pellagra which are being carried on by Dr. L. Sambon.
I am, &c.,
FRANCIS J. S. HOPWOOD.
No. 39.
CEYLON.
REPORT ON MALARIA FOR 1909, BY THE PRINCIPAL CIVIL MEDICAL OFFICER, May 26, 1910.
[Published as No. 1 in Appendix I. to [Cd. 5514], February, 1911.]
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No. 40.
WINDWARD ISLANDS (Grenada).
THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received 1 June, 1910.)
(No. 55.)
Forwarded.
(Grenada. No. 16.)
No. 43.
SAINT LUCIA.
EXTRACT FROM THE REPORT OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF THE THIRD DISTRICT FOR THE YEAR 1909.
(Received 27 June, 1910.)
[Published as No. 8 in Appendix 1. to [Cd. 5514], February, 1911.]
St. Vincent, 12th May, 1910.
J. HAYES SADLER,
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Governor.
SIR,
Government Office, 7th May, 1910. WITH reference to the Secretary of State's despatch, Grenada, Miscellaneous, of the 14th March last,* I have the honour to inform Your Excellency that the Legislative Council has, in finally passing the Colonial Estimates of this Colony for the current financial year, formally approved of the payment of a contribution of £50 towards the Tropical Diseases Research Fund. I have accordingly, and
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