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Committee for the Tropical Diseases Research Fund to consider if they can increase the grant already allowed us in the past. Apart from the Studentship in Medical Entomology (£100 per annum, contributed by the Advisory Committee), and the stipend of the Assistant to the Quick Professor (£100 per annum, contributed by me), the funds for running the Laboratory this year consist, roundly, of
From the Quick Fund
From the Tropical Diseases Research Fund From the Tropical Diseases Research Fund (addi-
tional grant for 1910 only)
From the Government Grants Committee of the Royal Society (only for special work in 1910)
Total
£ s. d. 160 0 0
100 0 0
50 0 0
27 0 0
£337 0 0
A considerable proportion of this sum is devoted to salaries of Laboratory assistants (roundly £130), leaving about £200 per annum for all other expenses. submit that this sum is inadequate and that a deficiency has frequently to be met at personal inconvenience. I may add that my secretary, who in case of emergency (and that is frequently) serves as laboratory assistant, devotes the major part of his time to the work of the Quick Laboratory; this at a salary of, roundly, £50, which I defray personally, an additional amount of about £19 being charged to the laboratory account for assistance as above stated. It would greatly relieve me if the Advisory Committee could see its way to defraying the stipend of the Assistant to the Chair (appointed with the consent of the Vice-Chancellor at £100 per annum) which I have now defrayed for three years. I should also like to point out that Mr. Warburton has been for some years doing very valuable and unselfish work for the Laboratory without any remuneration, and I feel that it is unreasonable for us to expect to retain his services on the present footing. The work demanded of him has greatly increased in amount, and it is of such a character as to desire recognition. I would propose that the Advisory Committee grant an additional sum of £50 per annum towards a stipend for Mr. Warburton, which I am willing to supplement by an additional £50 per annum for two years, so that Mr. Warburton may be given a status in the Laboratory. I very much hope that the Advisory Committee can therefore raise the total amount of the grant to the Quick Laboratory from £100 to £250, since it will permit me to cover any
other expenses which
may arise in the course of the year in excess of the total amount at my disposal for meeting the increasing cost of maintaining the laboratory on an effective basis.
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No. 59.
I am, &c.,
GEO. H. F. NUTTALL.
MINUTES OF MEETING OF THE TROPICAL DISEASES RESEARCH FUND ADVISORY COMMITTEE HELD 28TH OCTOBER, 1910, AT THE COLONIAL OFFICE, 4 P.M.
PRESENT:
Sir W. RIDGEWAY (in the Chair).
Sir T. BARLOW.
Dr. ROSE BRADFORD.
Sir D. BRUCE.
Sir T. HOLDERNESS.
Sir C. LUCAS.
Mr. READ.
Major Ross.
Mr. KEITH (Secretary).
1. The Minutes of the last Meeting* were approved subject to a verbal
correction.
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2. The question of the appointment of a qualified investigator for Jamaica was considered in detail. Professor Ross explained that peripheral neuritis had been known to exist in Jamaica for a considerable time while the other disease- vomiting sickness was a new disease which proved rapidly fatal to young children. The disease was still only in the clinical stage. A letter was read from Sir Patrick Manson in which he suggested that Dr. Wise, of British Guiana, should be detached for the purpose, and Mr. Read recommended that if the scientific members of the Committee were satisfied as to his qualifications he should be selected for the work, subject to the consent of the Governor of British Guiana. Professor Ross with- drew, in view of Sir Patrick Manson's suggestion, his own suggested nomination of Dr. Prout and Major Jackson on the ground that Dr. Wise was much more readily available and expense would be saved. The medical members then referred to Dr. Wise's original application in 1905, and considered that the arrangement suggested by Sir Patrick Manson was a desirable one.
3. The question of a grant in respect of Dr. Sambon's researches into Pellagra was carefully considered, but the scientific members of the Committee were not satisfied that the report showed any such scientific investigation as to justify further expenditure from the Tropical Diseases Research Fund. Sir T. Holderness drew special attention to the fact that it had been shown, in his opinion and that of Surgeon-General Branfoot, that the disease was not of sufficient interest to India to justify expenditure from the Tropical Diseases Research Fund, and that if the funds were expended in researches of this character it might be difficult to secure the continuation of the contribution from India. Sir C. Lucas also raised the question whether the rule should not be adhered to that grants would only be allowed once a year. Sir West Ridgeway thought that this could hardly be carried out as a fixed principle. Mr. Read concurred; and the sense of the Committee was that though grants should normally be made only once a year, if there was an available balance, it would be legitimate to allow part of it for other researches if deemed of sufficient scientific importance. It was agreed that Sir Patrick Manson should be informed privately that, at the present stage of the investigations, the Committee were not prepared to grant a further subsidy from the Tropical Diseases Research Fund, and that it would appear to be a matter for the Pellagra Committee to consider the raising of funds for further research.
4. Mr. Read mentioned the request of Dr. Graham, of Cairo, for the services of a bacteriologist, and asked whether any of the members were prepared to recom- mend a man, but no recommendation was made.
5. Professor Ross enquired whether it would be possible for the Advisory Committee to allow a book on malaria in the Federated Malay States, which was about to be published at the cost of funds privately subscribed, to appear as issued under the authority of the Tropical Diseases Research Fund Advisory Committee. The other members of the Committee were somewhat doubtful as to the possibility of doing this in one case without creating an inconvenient precedent, but Professor Ross undertook to send advance copies to the members of the Committee, and said that he would bring the matter up again at the next meeting.
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No. 60.
LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE to COLONIAL OFFICE.
(Received 1 November, 1910.)
[Answered by No. 68.]
B 10, Exchange Buildings, Liverpool,
31st October, 1910.
[Published as No. 2 in Appendix V. to [Cd. 5514], February, 1911.]