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Enclosure in No. 56.
TROPICAL DISEASES BUREAU.
Account of Receipts and Expenditure for the Year ended 31st March, 1917.
Balance
1916 Parliamentary grant-in-
aid
Colonial contributions India contributions Sudan contributions Treasury bills paid, 26th
October, 1916 Miscellaneous (sales and
advertisements, interest)
Miscellaneous (including
printing) Investments
Receipts.
Expenditure.
on
1st April,
£ s. d.
Salaries 1,584 4 2 Library
£
s. d 1,795 17 5
65 19 4
1,000 0 0
1,325 0 0
898 15 4 2,424 0
2*
500 0 0 300
0 0
1,000 0 0
Balance on 31st March
1917
1,012
3
487 9 3
£6,196 13 6
Assets not included in the above account :- £1,763 38. Five per Cent. War Loan.
53706
£6,196 13
в
£1,000 Treasury bills (five-and-a-half per cent.) for six months from 27th
October, 1916.
*£976 Os. 3d., purchase of Treasury bills, 29th April, 1916.
£972 18s. 11d., purchase of Treasury bills, 29th October, 1916. £475, purchase of £500 Five per Cent. War Loan, February, 1917.
No. 57.
MINUTES OF THE NINETEENTH MEETING OF THE MANAGING COMMITTEE OF THE TROPICAL DISEASES BUREAU, HELD at the COLONIAL OFFICE ON THE 25TH OF OCTOBER, 1917.
Present:
SIR DAVID Bruce.
SIR R. HAVELOCK CHARLES.
SIR J. MCFADYEAN.
MR. BLECH.
MR. FIDDIAN (Acting Secretary).
DR. BAGSHAWE, Director, also attended.
On the motion of Sir R. Havelock Charles. seconded by Sir J. McFadyean, Sir David Bruce took the chair.
On the question that the minutest of the Eighteenth Meeting should be approved, Sir R. Havelock Charles drew attention to the "Account of Receipts and Expendi- ture for the year ended 31st March, 1917," appended thereto. He thought the sum accounted for under "Miscellaneous" expenditure, nearly £899, was too large to be lumped under this one item. Dr. Bagshawe explained that the classification adopted was that laid down by the auditor, and pointed out that all the printing was included under "Miscellaneous." Sir R. Havelock Charles thought that more information should be given, and Mr. Blech suggested that details could be supplied in a footnote. Sir R. Havelock Charles and Sir J. McFadyean suggested that a detailed statement of receipts and expenditure should be furnished for the infor- mation of the Managing Committee, in view of their responsibility in the matter.
In connexion with the second and third paragraphs of the minutes. Dr. Bagshawe explained that it was hard to say whether the arrangement sanctioned by the Committee with a view to providing summaries of papers published in Japanese would work well, as communication with Dr. Mills seemed to be very difficult. He had received four lots from him, and had written inquiring
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on certain points five months ago, sending a duplicate of the letter subsequently, but had had no answer. By the next meeting of the Committee he should be able to say definitely whether it would work or not.
Sir David Bruce inquired whether the Japanese publications were received in London. Dr. Bagshawe said he got some of them, but he could not say whether other people did. Šir David Bruce thought that there were many Japanese medical men in town whose services could be made use of. Dr. Bagshawe suggested that the present arrangement should be given a year's trial, as originally agreed.
Dr. Bagshawe explained that the investment of £1,763 3s. in the War Loan had been reduced to £1,750, on the suggestion of the bank.
The Committee approved the minutes of the Eighteenth Meeting.
The agents' statement of account for sales and expenditure, during t half year April-September, 1917, was laid before the Committee and explained in detail by Dr. Bagshawe. Sir R. Havelock Charles asked whether twenty-five per cent. was the lowest rate of commission that could be got. Dr. Bagshawe replied that tenders had originally been called for from (he believed) six firms, most of whom asked for thirty-three per cent., on the ground that it was not worth their while to do it for less. Sir D. Bruce asked whether the agents advertised well. Dr. Bagshawe said he thought so. He added that, according to a state- ment from the agents, the subscribers numbered, for the Tropical Diseases Bulletin, 437; for the Veterinary Bulletin, 136. The numbers given in the minutes of the last meeting were too high.
Dr. Bagshawe asked the covering sanction of the Committee for certain increases in pay given provisionally to the staff, after consulting Mr. Read. He explained that in May the Bureau lost their junior typist and acting librarian, and the new typist was not good enough to act as librarian. He had asked the senior typist to take it on, and she asked for 5s. a week extra. With this increase she was drawing £2 3s. 6d. a week. She was an excellent typist and stenographer. They also had employed a boy of 15 at 9s. a week, who had been very useful and had learnt to type; they had recently been obliged to increase his pay to 14s. Committee approved of these increases.
The
Dr. Bagshawe explained that Dr. Abraham, who had been sectional editor for skin diseases, as well as leprosy, wished to give up the former subject. He was at present paid £50 a year for both. Dr. Abraham had suggested that Dr. Dore should take over skin diseases, and he was willing to do it for £25 a year, on condition of being allowed to use the summaries for the British Journal of Dermatology, which he edited. Sir R. Havelock Charles and Sir J. McFadyean objected to this pro- posal, and inquired whether Dr. Bagshawe had any alternative choice. Bagshawe mentioned Dr. Graham Little, who had been for many years skin physician at St. Mary's, and it was agreed to give him a trial in the post.
Dr.
The changes in the publication and distribution of the Bulletins, made in order to meet the deficiency in the paper supply, were explained to the Committee. Dr. Bagshawe said the Tropical Diseases Bulletin was now brought out monthly, and they had had to put the price up to 2s., or it would have been cheaper not to subscribe but to buy individual numbers. The Indian Government had agreed to be content with half the number of copies hitherto supplied, and similar reductions had been made in the case of other contributing administrations. The number of copies printed of each issue of the Tropical Diseases Bulletin had thus been reduced from 1,850 to 1,400, and the Tropical Veterinary Bulletin similarly from 1,000 to 650. In Dr. Sandwith's absence the subject of pellagra was not being dealt with for the present. They were now publishing two lists of references together as one number of the Tropical Diseases Bulletin; and the index was on a slightly smaller scale.
Sir R. Havelock Charles deprecated the cutting down of the index, and thought the indexer should give a good index for £50 a year. The Committee agreed.
Dr. Bagshawe said that Dr Ledingham's substitute (as sectional editor for dysentery) had gone abroad, and Dr. F. E. Taylor, Lecturer on Bacteriology at King's College and assistant to Professor Hewlett, had agreed to take over the work.
The Committee agreed that the Treasury bills for £1,000 falling due at the end of the current month should be renewed.
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