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to retain the services of those officers who had been engaged by means of the funds granted for 1910 by the Advisory Committee. It was expected that the School would receive from the executors of Sir Alfred Jones very considerable sums, say, £5,000 a year, but pending litigation delayed the grants expected, and unless funds were forthcoming there was danger of the investigators whose work was of such importance being lost.
Sir C. Lucas considered that research was extremely important and should be the object of the funds, and it was eventually agreed, on the proposal of Sir West Ridgeway, that the principle should be accepted of making grants only for work which was, in part at least, research work.
It was also agreed provisionally that the amount distributed might properly be fixed at £500. The following recommendations were then considered :-
(1) Professor Ross's application for £282, £125 in respect of Dr. Thompson,
£75 in respect of a Chemist, £62 in respect of a Cytologist. (2) Sir P. Manson's application for £200 in respect of an assistant to
Dr. Leiper.
(3) Dr. Nuttall's application for £150 towards the salary of an assistant in
the laboratory and of an Entomologist.
(4) Dr. Williamson's application for £50.
It was agreed that Dr. Williamson's request should be acceded to, the disease not being specifically a colonial one, and any payment in respect of it falling more properly on the Government of Cyprus. It was also decided that the other three recommendations should be accepted.
Mr. Read also obtained sanction for the expenditure of a sum of £3 8s. 10d., being expenses in connection with the steps taken to obtain a grant from the Mansion House Fund for the purpose of research into tropical diseases.
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5. I am also to inform you that, on the motion of Sir Patrick Manson, the Advisory Committee recommended, and the Secretary of State has approved, a grant of £200 to the School for the purpose of providing an assistant to Dr. Leiper, and the Crown Agents have been authorised to pay this sum at any time after the 1st of January next. This grant is a special one, and no assurance can be given that it will be possible to renew it next year.
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No. 68.
I am, &c.,
C. P. LUCAS.
COLONIAL OFFICE to THE LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE.
Downing Street, 12 December, 1910.
I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Harcourt to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 31st of October,* forwarding the reports of the work done in the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine for the six months ended the 31st of October. 2. In reply, I am to inform you that the reports were laid before the Advisory Committee for the Tropical Diseases Research Fund at their meeting on the 2nd of December, and that they were read with interest.
3. The Advisory Committee has recommended, and the Secretary of State has approved, the grant of £1,000 to the Liverpool School for the year 1911 on the same conditions as in previous years, and the Crown Agents for the Colonies have been authorised to pay you the sum, on your application, at any time after the 1st of January, 1911.
4. I am also to state that, on the proposal of Major Ronald Ross, the Advisory Committee have recommended, and Mr. Harcourt has approved, the grant of £262 to the Liverpool School, to be allocated as follows:-
£125 in respect of investigation into amoebic dysentery.
£75 in respect of a chemist, and
£62 in respect of a cytologist,
and the Crown Agents for the Colonies have been authorised to pay the School this sum at any period after the 1st of January next.
No. 66.
FEDERATED MALAY STATES.
THE HIGH COMMISSIONER to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received 3 December, 1910.)
(No. 409.)
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Government House, Penang, 9th November, 1910. [Published as No. 7 in Appendix VI. to [Cd. 5514], February, 1911.]
No. 67. COLONIAL OFFICE to THE LONDON SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE. SIR,
I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Harcourt to acknowledge the receipt of
Downing Street, 12 December, 1910. letters of the 31st of October and of the 15th of November,* forwarding reports on the work done by the London School of Tropical Medicine for the half-year ended 31st October, 1910.
your
2. In reply, I am to request that you will inform the London School of Tropical Medicine that the reports were laid before the Advisory Committee of the Tropical Diseases Research Fund at their second ordinary meeting on the 2nd of December, and that they were read with interest and will be published in due course in the annual report of the Advisory Committee.
3. The Advisory Committee recommended, and the Secretary of State has approved, a grant for the year 1911 of £1,333 6s 8d. to the London School, subject to the same conditions as in former years.
4. The Crown Agents for the Colonies have been authorised to pay this sum to you on your application at any time after the 1st of January, 1911.
* No. 61 and No. 3 in Appendix IV. to [Jd. 5514].
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No. 69. DOMINICA.
I am, &c.,
C. P. LUCAS.
THE ACTING ADMINISTRATOR to THE GOVERNOR OF THE LEEWARD ISLANDS.
(No. 407.) (Extract.)
(Received in Colonial Office 13th December, 1910.)
Government House, Dominica, 16th November, 1910.
4. Reference is made in paragraph 14 to the continued prevalence in Roseau of malaria, and the lack of any measures for securing the destruction of mosquitoes. I am specially drawing the attention of the Roseau Town Board to this matter.
Enclosure in No. 69.
REPORT of the Medical Officer for the Public Institutions on the Roseau Hospital for the year 1909, dated 28th September, 1910.
(Extract.)
14. One hundred and fifty-six cases of malarial diseases were treated during the year, viz.: 84 as in-patients, with 11 deaths, and 72 as out-patients. Most of
the cases come from the north part of the town, along which the Roseau River flows.
• No. 2 in Appendix V. to [Cd. 5514.]
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