;
No. 4.
WINDWARD ISLANDS: ST. VINCENT.
RETURNS OF MALARIAL FEVER, BLACKWATER FEVER, YELLOW FEVER, FILARIASIS, AND DENGUE DURING THE YEARS 1911-12 AND 1912-13.
(Received 21st January, 1914.)
[Published as No. 1 in Appendix I. to [Cd. 7796], April, 1915.]
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I am to transmit to you, herewith, a copy of a despatch which has now been received from Lord Kitchener in reply, from which it appears that His Lordship sees no sufficient ground for approaching the Egyptian Government in the sense indicated in your letter.
I am to state that, in the circumstances described by Lord Kitchener, Sir E. Grey concurs in this conclusion.
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Enclosure in No. 2.
I am, &c.,
EYRE A. CROWE.
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I PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
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(No. 156.) SIR,
British Agency, Cairo, 27th December, 1913. In reply to your despatch No. 230 of the 9th ultimo, I have the honour to state that the Egyptian Government are well aware of the prevalence of the terrible disease known as bilharziasis in this country, and that for some time past, Professor Looss, of the Kasr al Aini Hospital, the greatest living authority in bilharziasis and ankylostomiasis, has been pursuing his researches into the question. Moreover, the Department of Public Health propose in the immediate future to devote special attention to its study, and will in "consequence utilize any funds available for the
purpose.
I should add that Sir David Semple, late Director of the Central Research Institute of India, and well known in the scientific and medical world, has quite recently been entrusted with the care of the Public Health Department, and that he is specially qualified to undertake and control scientific research of this character, in which he will have the assistance of Professor Looss and a competent staff of bacter- iologists.
In the circumstances, I fear there is no sufficient ground for approaching the Egyptian Government in the sense desired by the Secretary of State for the Colonies, and I trust that you will agree with me in thinking it inexpedient to raise the ques- tion officially.
Sir E. Grey, Bart.,
&c., &c., &c.
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No. 3.
ZANZIBAR.
́ ́, I have, &c.
KITCHENER
THE ACTING BRITISH AGENT & CONSUL-GENERAL to THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
(No. 280.) SIR,
(Received 19th January, 1914.)
Zanzibar, 29th December, 1913.
I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch, No. 284 of the 18th ultimo,* relative to the income of the Tropical Diseases Research Fund and to inform you that in the circumstances detailed therein the Zanzibar Govern- ment is prepared to contribute £100 per annum from 1914 onwards.
2. I would request, therefore, that the necessary alteration may be made in the Estimates forwarded under cover of my despatch, No. 227 of 20th October last.†
have, &c.,
JOHN H. SINCLAIR.
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No. 5.
MALAY STATES.
THE HIGH COMMISSIONER to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received 24th January, 1914.)
(No. 687.)
Government House, Singapore, 31st December, 1913. [Published as No. 1 in Appendix VIII. to [Cd. 7796], April, 1915.]
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No. 6.
A STATEMENT BY PROFESSOR G. H. F. NUTTALL, WITH REGARD TO THE FINANCES OF THE QUICK LABORATORY, UNIVERSITY, OF CAMBRIDGE.
(Received 27th January, 1914.)
THE funds at the disposal of the Quick Laboratory amount to £650 a year- £450 being derived from the Tropical Diseases Research Fund (Colonial Office) and, roundly, £200 a year derived from the Quick Fund administered by the University of Cambridge. The money is expended in part (a) for stipends of members of the staff, and in part (b) for defraying the cost of running the Laboratory, as follows:-
(a) Stipends.
Demonstrator in medical entomology Assistant to the Quick Professor
Helminthologist to the Quick Laboratory Research student in medical entomology
£
50
100
100
100
=
£350.
These sums are paid out from the Tropical Diseases Research Fund for the specific purposes above mentioned, leaving the sum of £300 for the general purposes of the Laboratory, namely, £100 from the Tropical Diseases Research Fund, and, roundly, £200 from the Quick Fund.
It is impossible to make ends meet under the present arrangement without con- tinually appealing to private sources for aid, for it is clear that a sum of £300 is inadequate for supplying all the needs of the Laboratory in the course of a year: laboratory assistants" salaries, apparatus, chemicals, animals and their food, etc., as the following statement will show :
(b) General Purposes Account.
£.
First Laboratory Assistant Second Laboratory Assistant
Maintaining the field laboratory for research work on larger animals Salaries of Secretary
!
160
£104
£104
£26
234
£394
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