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MY DEAR KITCHENER,
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No. 21.
MR. L. HARCOURT, M.P., to VISCOUNT KITCHENER.
Downing Street, 31st March, 1914. I COMMUNICATED to the Advisory Committee for the Tropical Diseases Research Fund your letter of the 15th of January, in support of Sir Reginald Wingate's application for assistance from the Fund to continue the publication of the reports of the Gordon College Research Laboratories.
The Committee gave the application their most careful consideration at their last meeting, and I am glad to say that, while it is, of course, impossible for them, with the very limited funds at their disposal, to attempt to carry on the publications of the Gordon College Research Laboratories on the scale on which that work has hitherto been done by Mr. Wellcome, they will be able to publish in their annual report the records of original work carried out in the Laboratories in the same manner as they now publish reports of the work done in Colonial Laboratories. The nature of such reports will be seen from the Annual Report of the Advisory Com- mittee for the year 1913,† which has just been published, and of which a copy is enclosed, and I shall be glad to learn if this offer proves acceptable to the Sudan Government.
Yours very sincerely, .
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No. 22.
COLONIAL OFFICE to TREASURY.
[Answered by No. 30.]
L. HARCOURT.
SIR,
Downing Street, 3rd April, 1914. I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Harcourt to transmit to you, to be laid before the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, with reference to your letter of the 16th of June, 1909,‡ the accompanying copy of the report of the Advisory Committee for the Tropical Diseases Research Fund for the year 1913,† which has been laid before Parliament.
2. I am also to enclose a copy of a Circular despatch§ which Mr. Harcourt has addressed to the Governors of the various Tropical Colonies and Protectorates, requesting them to continue the grants hitherto made to the Research Fund for a period of five years.
3. Mr. Harcourt is fully satisfied that the work done by means of the Fund is of the greatest importance, and he has no hesitation in asking that the grant of £1,000 a year now made from Imperial funds should be extended for a period of five years from the 1st of April, 1915, when the present grant will cease. I am to add that the Government of India are similarly being asked to continue for a further period of five years the grant of £500 now made to the Research Fund.
I am, &c.,
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3. Mr. Harcourt trusts that the Marquess of Crewe will see his way to invite the Government of India to continue for a period of five years the grant of £500 & year now made to the Research Fund. Mr. Harcourt feels assured that the repre- sentatives of the India Office on the Advisory Committee will be able to satisfy his Lordship that the work done through the instrumentality of the Fund is such as fully to justify the making of this request.
I am, &c.,
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SIR,
No. 24.
H. J. READ,
for the Under-Secretary of State.
COLONIAL OFFICE to PROFESSOR G. H. F. NUTTALL.
Downing Street, 6th April, 1914. I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Harcourt to inform you that, at the meeting of the Advisory Committee for the Tropical Diseases Research Fund on the 19th March, the Advisory Committee had under their consideration your letter of the 17th March, giving further particulars of your application for a grant towards the expenses of the Quick Laboratory. The Advisory Committee consider that the investigations which it is suggested that your Assistant, Dr. E. Hindle, should carry out in Uganda and Nyasaland are of importance, and they have recom- mended, and Mr. Harcourt has approved, that a grant of £300 should be made from the Fund towards the expenses of the proposed expedition.
2. Mr. Harcourt would be glad to learn at what date it is proposed that Dr. Hindle should leave this country, in order that communications may be addressed to the Governors of Nyasaland and Uganda, with a view to such facilities as may be possible being afforded to Dr. Hindle.
3. The Crown Agents for the Colonies have been authorized to pay you the sum of £300.
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I am, &c.
HENRY LAMBERT.
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SIR,
H. J. READ, for the Under-Secretary of State.
No. 23.
COLONIAL OFFICE to INDIA OFFICE.
[Answered by No. 56.]
Downing Street, 3rd April, 1914. WITH reference to your letter of the 22nd of July, 1909,|| I am directed by Mr. Secretary Harcourt to transmit to you, to be laid before the Marquess of Crewe, the accompanying copies of the Report of the Advisory Committee for the Tropical Diseases Research Fund for the year 1913,† which has been laid before Parliament. 2. I am also to enclose a copy of a Circular despatch§ which Mr. Harcourt has addressed to the Governors of the various Tropical Colonies and Protec- torates, requesting them to continue the grants hitherto made to the Research Fund for a period of five years.
No. 25.
LEEWARD ISLANDS.
THE SECRETARY OF STATE to THE GOVERNOR.
[Answered by 20895, referring to No. 26.]
(No. 99.)
Downing Street, 20th April, 1914.
SIR,
I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No. 87 of the 3rd March, on the subject of anti-malaria measures in Antigua, St. Kitts-Nevis, and Montserrat.
2. I shall be glad to learn whether it is proposed to take any action as regards the distribution of quinine in the schools of Dominica.
I have, &c.,
L. HARCOURT.
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* No. 7.
No. 55 in Miscellaneous No. 227. § No. 17. + [Cd. 7281], March, 1914.
No. 67 in Miscellaneous No. 227.
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(No. 136.)
SIR,
No. 26.
LEEWARD ISLANDS.
THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
(Received 29th April, 1914.)
Government House, 1st April, 1914. WITH reference to the third paragraph of your despatch No. 274 of the 10th November, 1913, and to my despatch No. 87 No. 109, 17th March, 1914.
of the 3rd March,* I have the honour to transmit to you a copy of a despatch, quoted in the margin, from the Acting Administrator of Dominica, relative to the distribution of quinine in the schools of that Presidency.