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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
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HC.O. 885.
23 PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC- COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH-NOT TO
June 6 (Rec. June 27.)
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Serial
From or to whom.
Date.
No.
No., &c.
Berial No.
Despatch
From or to whom.
No., &c.
Date.
Bubject.
Page
1914
1914
46 The Governor
Jamaica, 229
$7
The Governor
Trinidad, 200
May 11 (Roc. May 26.)
88 The Senior Medical
Officer
Looward Islands
March 81 (Rec. May 26.)
States that the Legislative Council has approved of the continuation of the annual grant of £100 to the Fund for a further period of five years.
Return of mosquito-borne diseases for 27
1913.
27
47
Ditto
British Guians,
208
39
The Governor
Hong Kong. 189
May 7 (Rec. May 29.)
States that the Hong Kong Govern- ment is prepared o continue its annual grant of £100 to the Fund for a further period of five years.
27
40
Ditto ...
41
To Treasury
Britial May 15 Honduras, (Rec. May 80.)
97
June 1
42
To the Governors and
Straits the High Commis- Settlementa, sioner
June 10
Malay
States,
Hong Kong,
Ceylon
Miscella-
116008
States that the Legislative Council has 28
agreed to contribute £50 per annum to the Fund for a further period of five years.
States, in reply to No. 80, that Nigeria 28 has been asked to increase its grant. to £500, the East Africa Protectorate and Zanzibar have been asked to contribute £200 and £100 respec- tively, and the question of inviting contributions from Nyasaland and Uganda will be taken into considera- tion in connexion with the Estimates. for next year; observes that the other Colonial and Protectorate Govern- ments from which subscriptions are received have not been asked to increase their contributions; and trusts, in these circumstances, that their lordships will consent to renew. ing the grant of £1,000 from the Imperial Exchequer for a further period of five years.
Indicates the outline of a scheme of 28
research into the etiology and pre- vention of yellow fever which the Royal Society are prepared to under- take, and an estimate of the cost proposed; and inquires what contri- bution his Government would be pre- pared to make towards the cost of the proposed research.
June 12 (Rec. July 7.)
Subject.
Page.
Forwards copies of the Yaws (Compul- 81
sory Treatment) Law, 1914, with a copy of the Attorney-General's report thereon, and copies of reports by Medical Officers on the treatment of yaws by salvarsan.
States that the proposed grant to the Fund for 1914-15 has already been voted; the Combined Court will be asked later to vote the proportionate amount for the rest of the financial year 1915 and the full ■um for the financial year 1916; calls attention to the fact that the financial year of the Colony now commences on Ist January and ends on 81st December.
40
48* The Principal Medi-Nyasaland (Rec. July 7.) Return of mosquito-borne diseases for 40
cal Officer
49 To the Governor
Jamaica, Telegram
July 11
50
The Governor
51
University of London
July 14
1918.
40
40
41
States that the Medical Committee is being consulted with regard to the law enclosed in No. 48; reserves judgment, in the meantime, as to the compulsory powers conferred by it; and inquires whether the Unoffi cial Members supported compulsion. Jamaica, (Rec. July 18.) States, in reply to No. 49, that the Telegram
Elected Members of the Legislative Council supported compulsion; adds that action under the law will be deferred pending further instruc- tíona.
July 3 (Rec. July 21.)
July 2 (Rec. July 27.)
Applies for an additional grant of £100 for the Chair of Protozoology, to en- able an increase of salary to be given to Dr. H. M. Woodcock, Scientific Assistant.
Submita a despatch from the Acting 42
Administrator stating that the Legis- lative Council have voted a sum of £20 as a contribution to the Fund for the year 1914-15.
States that the Federal Council will be invited to vote an annual grant of £100 to the Fund for a further period of five years.
42
52
The Acting Governor Windward
Islanda: 81. Vincent,
69
48
The Governor-General Nigeria,
June 19
540
Expresses the hope that, if Nigeria is asked to contribute £500, the Gold Coast will be asked to contribute £400 and Sierra Leone to contribute in a similar proportion.
80
53 The High Commis
sioner
Malay
States, 854
54
To Treasury
July 27
Expresses satisfaction with the con-
sent conveyed in No. 45.
42
44
The Governor
Straita Settle- ments, 275
May 25
(Rec. June 22.)
States that the Unofficial Members of 80
the Legislative Council have agreed that an annual payment of £100 for five more years be made to the Fund.
55
To the Governor-
General
Nigeria, 1178
July 28
45
Treasury
June 28
Agrees, in the circumstances indicated in No. 41, to continue the grant of £1,000 per annum for a further two years, but considers that the Imperial grant should be reduced after 1916-17 to a sum not exceeding £500.
80
States that, on consideration of the arguments adduced in No. 48, it is not desired to press for a contribu- tion of £500 sa originally suggested, but requests a contribution of £400; and notes his views as to contribu- tions from the Gold Coast and Bierra Leone, which, however, is a matter for the Secretary of State's judg ment and discretion.
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