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to the Liverpool School for the construction of a special building at the Royal Infirmary for the treatment of cases of tropical diseases and for the improvement of the clinical teaching of the School.
3. The Advisory Committee have recommended, and the Secretary of State has approved, the continuance for 1912 of the grant of £1,000 made in previous years to the School, and also a further grant of £200 to assist in the making of chemical researches. The Crown Agents for the Colonies have been authorised to pay half this sum to you on application on or after the 1st January and the other half on or after the 1st July, 1912.
I am, &c.,
G. V. FIDDES.
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3. I shall be glad, therefore, if the return can be amended as regards these points, and if instructions. can be given that in future returns any information which is required, and which is not available in the Medical Department, shall be supplied by the Department concerned before the return is sent home to this country.
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L. HARCOURT.
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SIR,
your
COLONIAL OFFICE to THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON.
Downing Street, 12 December, 1911. I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Harcourt to acknowledge the receipt of letter of the 24th of October* and to inform you that the report of the Professor of Protozoology for the year ending June 30th was laid before the Advisory Committee for the Tropical Diseases Research Fund at their meeting of 1st December and was read with interest.
2. I am to add that the Crown Agents for the Colonies have been authorised to pay to you on application on or after the 1st of July, 1912, the sum of £750, being the grant for 1912 from the Tropical Diseases Research Fund in respect of the salary of the Professor of Protozoology.
No. 143. JAMAICA
THE ACTING GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received December 16, 1911.)
(No. 430.)
King's House, Jamaica, 22 November, 1911.
[Published as No. 18 in Appendix I. to [Cd. 6024].]
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SIR,
No. 141.
I am, &c.,
G. V. FIDDES.
COLONIAL OFFICE to PROFESSOR G. H. F. NUTTALL.
Downing Street, 12 December, 1911.
I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Harcourt to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 18th of Novembert and to inform you that your report on the work of the Quick Laboratory for 1911 was laid before the Advisory Committee for the Tropical Diseases Research Fund at their meeting of the 1st December and was read with interest.
2. The Advisory Committee have recommended, and the Secretary of State has approved, that a grant of £350 should be made from the Research Fund for the year 1912, and the Crown Agents for the Colonies have been authorised to issue this sum to you on application on or after the 1st July, 1912.
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No. 142.
UGANDA
I am, &c.,
G. V. FIDDES.
THE SECRETARY OF STATE to THE GOVERNOR. (No. 479.) SIR,
Downing Street, 15 December, 1911.
I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch, No. 228, of the 3rd of August, forwarding a return on the subject of the prevention of mos- quito-borne diseases.
2. The return has been communicated to the Advisory Committee for the Tropical Diseases Research Fund, who have called my attention to the fact that the answers given under heads 9, 10, 11, 12, 16, and 17 (e) and (g), are inadequate, and so prevent comparison being made with the returns on this subject which have been received from other Crown Colonies and Protectorates.
ET No. 121.
↑ No. 131.
‡ No. 117.
SIR,
(No. 976.)
SOUTHERN NIGERIA.
THE SECRETARY OF STATE to THE GOVERNOR.
Downing Street, 19 December, 1911.
I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch, No. 590, of the 5th of October,* forwarding a copy of a letter from Dr. Neale, giving details of the routine daily work of the Medical Research Institute; and of your despatch, No. 657, of the 4th of November,t forwarding Dr. Neale's report on his work during the period for which he has acted as Director of the Institute, in the absence of Dr. Graham, on leave.
2. I caused these despatches to be referred to the scientific members of the Advisory Committee of the Tropical Diseases Research Fund, in order that an expression of their opinion might be obtained as to the extent to which the work of the Institute was being carried on in conformity with the purpose for which, as its name implies, it was originally founded.
3. I am informed that the scientific members who have expressed their views on the subject are agreed that the work which has been done of late in the Institute is to a large extent not research work in the proper sense of the term, and that the functions contemplated by the Committee when the establishment of the Institute was first decided on are not being fulfilled.
4. Sir Patrick Manson and Sir Ronald Ross, who were further consulted, have been good enough to furnish me jointly with the following definition of what they regard as the proper place of the Medical Research Institute in the medical administration of the West African Colonies :-
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The primary object of the Institute is the advancement of knowledge in regard to the diseases of the country. Although medical officers are encouraged to consult the Institute in cases of difficulty or in any pathological work on which they may be engaged, it must not be treated as a clinical laboratory, or made use of for medico-legal work. If special assistance is provided, however, there is no reason against the facilities afforded by the laboratory being utilised for such work.'
5. In view of the fact that the other West African Governments contribute
to the salaries of the staff and the maintenance of the Institute, in the building of which they took an adequate share, it is necessary to avoid giving any reasonable
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