93
(c) It was suggested that the following Governments should be invited to make
contributions :-
325
GENERAL FINANCIAL POSITION AS AT 30TH SEPTEMBER, 1922.
£ 8. d.
£ 8. d.
Cash in hand
187 15 11
Cash Receivable:
Government Grants unpaid ...
Sales of publications, etc., say
2,450 0 0
800 0
0
Estimated liabilities for remainder of financial
year-
Salaries
1,782 10 0
Tropical Diseases Bulletin and
Sanitation Supplements
(11 Nos. and 2 Indexes)
Tropical Veterinary Bulletin
(8 Nos. and 1 Index)
Stationery Office
Library
Office expenses
900 0 0.
100 0 0
30
0
0
30 0 0
65 0 0
Postage
Provident Fund
+
65
0
0
250 0 0
£3,222 10 0
£3,437 15 11
Assets not shown in the above statement, £1,071 2s. 10d., placed to Provident Fund Account.
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No. 25.
MINUTES OF THE SUB-COMMITTEE OF THE TROPICAL DISEASES BUREAU, HELD ON FRIDAY THE 8TH DECEMBER, 1922.
Present:
SIR H. READ (Chairman).
COLONEL A. BALFOUR,
DR. A. G. BAGSHAWE.
MR. W. C. HANKINSON (Secretary).
THE Sub-committee was appointed by the 31st Meeting of the Managing Committee,*
(a) To review the financial position and prospects of the Bureau and advise what
measures should be taken to place it on a secure economic foundation.
(b) To consider certain proposals for the superannuation of the Bureau Staff.
1. Contributions,
The whole question of contributions was considered in the light of the amounts already contributed to the Bureau and of those contributed to the Imperial Bureau of Entomology.
(a) It was decided not to suggest any alteration in the following:--
Parliamentary Grant-in-aid
India
Jamaica
Fiji
Sudan
(b) It was suggested that the following
increased contributions :-
South Africa
Australia
Egypt
Nigeria
Gold Coast
Sierra Leone
Gambia
Federated Malay States
£1,000
£250 (reduced from £500 for the next two years) £100 (reduced to £50 for 1922-23) ·
£50 (abolished for 1922-23) £300
Governments should be invited to make
£700
Hong Kong
£300
£400
Ceylon
£500
£300
Mauritius
£250
£500
Sarawak
$100
£500
British North Borneo Co.
£100
£150
Zanzibar
£250
£150
British Guiana
£150
£300
Trinidad
£200
* No. 24
Canada
£500 Straits Settlements
Queensland
£200
Cyprus
Southern Rhodesia
£200
Malta
Northern Rhodesia
£100
Gibraltar
Barbados
£100
Bermuda
Leeward Islands
£50
Bahamas
Windward Islands
£60
British Honduras
Kenya £60 Uganda
£200
£200
£100
£100
£50 £100
£300 £250
(a) The Governments of New Zealand, Iraq, and Palestine had recently been invited to make contributions and it was decided to await their replies before approaching them further in the matter.
It was further decided that the despatches to be sent to the various Govern- ments should contain a full statement of the activities of the Bureau, and that the need for placing the Bureau on a secure economic basis should be strongly emphasized. Wherever possible the despatch to a particular Government should contain a reference to any specific tropical diseases, either human or animal, which occur in that Colony, and the benefit which the support of the Bureau would confer. Dr. Bagshawe was asked to prepare data for the various despatches.
The Sub-Committee agreed that in future the practice of asking for contribu- tions for a definite period of years should be discontinued.
2. Superannuation. The Sub-Committee then proceeded to discuss the pro-. posals for the superannuation of the Bureau staff. As regards the Secretary and the two Assistant Secretaries it was agreed to recommend the adoption of the proposals in the memorandum which was circulated to the Managing Committee on the 20th November, i.e., that they should join the Federated Superannuation Scheme of Universities with back payments in the case of Captain Sheppard the Secretary. Dr. Bagshawe withdrew and the Sub-Committee discussed the question of the provision to be made for him. It was agreed that the figure of £500 mentioned in the memorandum was too low, having regard to the work which the Director was doing and the long and useful service which he had rendered to the Bureau. The Secretary explained that the figure was only inserted in the memorandum to form a basis on which calculations might be made. The question of the amount would, of course, necessarily depend on the result of the appeal which it was proposed to make on behalf of the Bureau, but it was felt that a retiring allowance of £800 a year on his attaining the age of 65 or its equivalent would be more suitable. Dr. Bagshawe was then recalled and informed accordingly, and it was decided to leave any definite recommendation until the result of the appeal was known.
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No. 26.
THE TROPICAL DISEASES BUREAU, 1912-1922. MEMORANDUM BY THE DIRECTOR.
THE Tropical Diseases Bureau came into being in 1912 as a development of the Sleeping Sickness Bureau founded in 1908.
2. The main function of the Bureau is to collect from every possible source information regarding the prevalence, recognition, prevention, and treatment of diseases in the tropics both of men and domestic animals; to collate, condense, and where necessary translate this information and to render it accessible to medical and veterinary officers in the tropics with as little delay as possible.
3. The Bureau issues three serial publications:
(i) The Tropical Diseases Bulletin, published monthly, and now in its nineteenth volume. In this appear classified summaries of the current literature of the following among other human diseases prevalent in the tropics: Amoebiasis and Amoebic Dysentery, Beriberi, Blackwater Fever, Cholera, Dengue, Bacillary and other kinds of Dysentery, Enteric Fevers in the Tropics, Unclassed Fevers of the Tropics, Heat Stroke, Verminous Infections (including Hookworm) Kala Azar, Leprosy, Malaria, Sand Fly Fever, Pellagra, Plague, Relapsing Fever, Scurvy, Sleeping Sickness, Sprue, Tropical Diseases of the Skin, Tuberculosis in the Tropics, Undulant Fever,
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