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No. 51.
DR. G. A. WILLIAMSON to COLONIAL OFFICE.
(Received 16 August, 1910.)
[Copy to High Commissioner, Cyprus, August 27, 1910. L.F.]
[Answered by No. 74.]
Kilchurn, Drummond, Inverness, N.B.,
15th August, 1910. IN 1908 the Tropical Diseases Research Committee did me the honour of appointing me to investigate in Hydra and Spetsai the disease ponos, believed to be endemic there and there only, and in the spring of 1909 I was granted leave by the Government of Cyprus to proceed to the islands, but, enquiry through the Hellenic Consul in Cyprus showing that there were at that time no cases in the islands, the expedition had to be postponed.
Since then disease with similar symptoms having been reported from Tunis, Algeria, and Italy, the suggestion originally made by me that ponos was really kala azar appears to be strengthened, and I venture now to ask the Committee to once again authorise my visiting the islands next spring to investigate into the incidence and nature of the disease.
My knowledge of Greek enables me to work without an interpreter and so to get information direct from the people, and thus, I believe, much useful knowledge of the epidemiology of the disease will be obtained, while if cases are met with in any frequency direct bacteriological evidence of the cause of the disease may be forthcoming.
The cost of the expedition should not much exceed £50, and the proposed period of absence from Cyprus would be six weeks. I need hardly say that, despite a grant of this amount, I should be out of pocket, but I am so interested in the subject that I am quite prepared to meet any such loss.
I may add that Sir Patrick Manson and Professor Ronald Ross are both in a position to speak on the merits of this investigation, being aware of my work so far with regard to the subject.
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researches are published as having been carried out with the part assistance of the Advisory Committee for the Tropical Diseases Research Fund."
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No. 54. HONG KONG.
I am, &c.,
C. P. LUCAS.
THE ACTING GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received 5 September, 1910.)
(No. 251.)
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Government House, Hong Kong, 4th August, 1910. [[ Published as No. 9 in Appendix VI. to [Cd. 5514], February, 1911.]
(No. 536.)
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No. 55.
EAST AFRICA PROTECTORATE.
THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
(Received 6 October, 1910.)
Government House, Nairobi,
British East Africa, September 1st, 1010. [Published as No. 5 in Appendix VI. to [Cd. 5514], February, 1911.]
No. 56.
REPORT BY DR. H. CAMPBELL HIGHET, MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH, BANGKOK, ON THE WORK OF THE LOCAL SANITARY DEPARTMENT FOR THE YEAR 1ST APRIL, 1908, TO 31ST MARCH,
I am, &c..
GEORGE A. WILLIAMSON,
M.A., M.D., D.T.M., D.P.H.
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No. 52. CEYLON.
REPORT ON THE RESEARCH WORK DONE IN THE CLINIC FOR TROPICAL DISEASES AND BACTERIOLOGICAL INSTITUTE FROM 1ST JANUARY TO 30TH JUNE, 1910, BY ALDO CASTEL- LANI, M.D.
(Received 29 August, 1910.)
[Published as No. 3 in Appendir VT. to [Cd, 5514], February, 1911.]
1909.
(Received October, 1910.) BERI BERI.
[Extract published as No. 8 in Appendix VI, to [Cd. 5514], February, 1911.]
No. 57.
GOLD COAST.
DR. W. H. LANGLEY to COLONIAL OFFICE. (Received 17 October, 1910.)
91, Jermyn Street, 14 October, 1910. [Published as No. 5 in Appendix I. to [Cd. 5514], February, 1911.]
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No. 58.
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No. 53.
COLONIAL OFFICE to PROFESSOR G. H. F. NUTTALL.
Downing Street, 31 August, 1910.
I AM directed by the Earl of Crewe to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 7th of August,* and to inform you that, having consulted the members of the Committee of the Tropical Diseases Research Fund, his Lordship has approved of an additional grant of £50 being made to you from the Fund to defray pressing expenses in connection with the Quick Laboratory, and that the Crown Agents have been instructed to pay the amount to you.
I am, however, to observe that this special grant is not to be regarded as a precedent, and to state that the grant is made on the condition that Dr. Hindle's
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REPORT BY PROFESSOR GEORGE H. F. NUTTALL, F.R.S., ON WORK OF QUICK LABORATORY. [See No. 71.]
October 26th, 1910.
[Published, with the exception of the portion printed here, as Appendix III. to [Cd. 5514], February, 1911.]
Application for an increased grant.
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Owing to the increasing number of gentlemen who desire to come and work in the Laboratory and to the nature of the researches which are being carried on, we are considerably cramped for space. Although our means are totally inadequate for the purpose, it has been found necessary to establish a small Field Laboratory in the vicinity of Cambridge, where investigations on larger animals (cattle, horses, dogs, &c.) can be conducted. An increase in the number of workers necessarily entails a larger outlay in Laboratory expenses; consequently I must beg the Advisory
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