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is no meeting of our Medical School Committee this month, he has taken the opinion of the Lecturer on Tropical Diseases, Dr. Anderson, C.I.E. I beg, therefore, to enclose you
his letter for perusal, in which he cordially supports the proposed scheme. The Dean wishes this letter taken as embodying the views of the School Committee.
I am, &c.,
FREDERIC H. MADDEN,
Secretary.
We shall at all times attentively consider any suggestion made by the Colonial Office for the further extension of this instruction.
I have the honour to forward you, as requested in previous years, fifty copies of the announcement of this year's course.
I am, &c.,
ISAMBARD OWEN,
Dean of the School.
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
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DEAR MR. MADDEN,
Enclosure in No. 14.
9, Harley Street, W., March 18, 1898.
In reply to your letter of the 15th instant, and returning enclosures, I wish to express my cordial support of the scheme therein proposed.
I think few things can be more desirable for young medical men who intend to practise their profession in tropical countries than special instruction in the diseases peculiar to hot climates.
This necessity has been recognised at St. Mary's Medical School, I need not say, and students attending the lectures given there have the opportunity of clinically studying tropical disease at the Dreadnought Hospital, Greenwich, which I, as one of the phy- sicians of that hospital, am allowed to offer them.
If any plan can be devised that is practical, and will induce students who intend to enter the public services, or in a private capacity to practise in tropical or sub-tropical climates, to specially study the diseases of such climates, I am sure it will be to their great advantage, and that it would be worthy of the favourable consideration of the authorities of the Medical Schools.
Yours, &c.,
J. ANDERSON.
P.S.-I may add that at the Dreadnought Hospital 102 beds are set aside for medical cases, and of these a considerable number are cases of tropical disease. I have just now in my wards a case of leprosy, several cases Beri Beri, a case of psilosis, and cases of malarial fever and dysentery.
7035.
OWENS COLLEGE, MANCHESTER, to COLONIAL OFFICE.
No. 13.
(Received March 31, 1898.)
MY LORD,
The Owens College, Manchester, March 29, 1898. I BEG to acknowledge the receipt of your communication-numbered 26144/97* -in which attention is drawn to the necessity for special education in tropical diseases in the Medical Schools of this country.
I have also to say that the Governing Body of this College are most anxious to meet the wishes expressed in your letter in every way. The matter will therefore be referred to the Medical Section of the Senate for full consideration, with a view to making suit- able provision for such teaching in our Medical Departments, if possible.
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SIR,
No. 16.
I have, &c.,
ALF. H. YOUNG,
Dean.
ST. GEORGE'S HOSPITAL to COLONIAL OFFICE. (Received March 31, 1898.)
St. George's Hospital Medical School, Hyde Park Corner, S.W.. March 30, 1898.
I HAVE the honour to acknowledge your letter (26144/97) of the 11th instant.* In this School a course of instruction in tropical medicine has been given annually for some years past; and certificates are given, at request, to those who have attended it.
Enclosure in No. 16.
ST. GEORGE'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL SCHOOL, Hyde Park Corner, London, S.W. 1898.
A Course of Lectures on Diseases of Tropical Climates will be delivered by Patrick Manson, LL.D., M.D., F.R.C.P., Lecturer on Tropical Medicine to the School, in the Medical School of St. George's Hospital, on Tuesday, May 17th, and every succeeding Friday and Tuesday till July 22nd, at five p.m. each day.
The Course is intended for Medical Men intending to practise in the Tropics or in Eastern Asia. It will embrace the Fevers of Warm Climates, including Malarial Fevers, Dengue, Mediterranean Fever, and other unclassed varieties, Dysentery, Sprue, Liver Abscess, Filariasis (Elephantiasis, Chyluria, &c.), Ankylostomiasis, Guinea Worm, Bilharzia and other Parasites, Beri-beri, Tropical Skin Diseases, &c.
As far as practicable it will be illustrated by Living Specimens, and by Demon- strations of Parasitic Organisms associated with these Diseases.
The Fee for the Course will be Three Guineas. Application should be made to the Dean of the Medical School, St. George's Hospital, S. W., from whom Cards of Admission may be obtained.
ISAMBARD OWEN, M.D.,
8478.
SIR,
No. 17.
SEAMEN'S HOSPITAL SOCIETY to COLONIAL OFFICE. (Received April 18, 1898.) [Auswered by No. 31.]
Dean.
Dreadnought Seamen's Hospital, Greenwich, S.E., April 16, 1898.
IN further reply to your communication of 2nd February,* No. 26144/97, I am directed to inform you that my Committee have carefully considered the subject of the establishment of a School for the Study of Tropical Diseases in connection with this Society.
There is in the Society's Hospitals and Dispensaries clinical material for the study of tropical diseases which cannot be found elsewhere in the United Kingdom in the same amount and variety. There are on an average 190 cases of well-marked typical tropical diseases coming under the care of the Society's physicians and surgeons annually. These are usually acute cases, such as are met with in actual practice in the tropics, and include a large percentage of Asiatics, Africans, and West Indians, as well as Europeans of all nations and natives of British and other Colonies. Seventy-eight per cent. of these patients land in the Royal Victoria and Albert Docks, and are either treated at the Branch Hospital, which adjoins the Dock Gates, or, if not too ill, are sent to the Dread- nought Hospital at Greenwich.
The number of beds in the Branch Hospital is at present 18, and a large number of cases of tropical disease are sent to Greenwich, a distance of about six miles.
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