TABLE OF CONTENTS.
Subject.
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Serial
From or to whom.
Despatch No., &c.
Page.
Date.
No.
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Colonial Office
1897.
December 2
Scheme for the improvement of the Medical Service in the West African Colonies. With an address by Dr. Manson on "The Necessity for Special Education in Tropical Medicine."
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To Foreign Office...
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To
the Seamen's Hospital Society.
February 2
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1898. February 2 Encloses copy of No. 1, and inquires whether Lord Salisbury is willing that it should be applied to the Pro- tectorates under the administration of the Foreign Office,
States that the question of improving the Medical Service of the British Colonies in West Africa has been re- ceiving Mr. Chamberlain's serious consideration, and asks for the assist- ance of the Society.
Instructs them to procure, for the use of the medical advisers to the Colonial Office, a book in which the notes of physical examinations of candidates made by them shall in future be kept.
Conveys suggestions made by Dr. Man- Bon for the improvement of the form of the medical reports sent home from the Colonies, and requests that he will form a small committee of experienced colonial medical officers for the pur- pose of devising a model form of report.
Transmits draft of a circular to the General Medical Council and the lead- ing British Medical Schools, urging the desirability of extending the teaching of tropical medicine in this country.
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To Crown Agents...
February 2
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To Sir C. Gage
Brown, M.D.
February 2
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To War Office,
February 11
Admiralty, India Office and Foreign Office.
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
Reference :-
C.O.885
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Foreign Office
February 16
Concurs in draft circular enclosed in
No. 6.
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Ditto
February 23
Concurs in principle in the proposal that Protectorates administered by the Foreign Office should be included, but points out that Treasury approval will be necessary.
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Admiralty
February 24
Approves proposals in draft circular to
the General Medical Council, &c.
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War Office...
February 28
Expresses a doubt whether the training desired can be obtained at the Metro- politan Hospitals, and suggests that officers should be trained at Netley.
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