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demand for additional accommodation at the Branch has been so great that the Com- mittee had lately arranged to increase the number of beds to 30. This increase, how- ever, would not fully meet the demand, and the Committee feel that if a School for the Study of Tropical Diseases is to be formed, the accommodation should be further en- larged to 45 beds, which would usually be filled with cases affording excellent material for the purposes of the School.
It will be necessary that suitable school buildings and sleeping accommodation for students be erected, with appropriate laboratory, pathological room, mess room, ante- room, offices, &c.
The distance of the Branch Hospital from London, the far greater opportunities enjoyed by students who are on the spot during the whole 24 hours, and the shortness of the period which most students will be able to give up for their course of study, all combine to make it most desirable that provision for the residence of the students in the Hospital should be made.
The Medical Staff of the Seamen's Hospital Society are by long experience excep- tionally well qualified for the teaching of the treatment of tropical diseases, and arrange- ments would be made for one or more members of the Senior Medical Staff to attend and give instruction to students on four days in the week and on each occasion for four hours.
In addition a medical tutor (who would be also a bacteriologist) would be in resi- dence to give daily instruction to students, not only in the study of tropical diseases, but in hospital administration and the treatment of patients generally.
Plans and specifications for the erection of a new wing and the school buildings have been submitted to the Committee by their architect, and will be laid before the Secretary of State if desired, and appended to this letter is an estimate of the capital and current expenditure, showing that the addition of the new wing will cost, in con- struction, approximately £10,000, and, in maintenance, £2,000 per annum, and that the school buildings will cost, in construction, approximately £3,500, and, with six students, in maintenance £1,100 per annum.
The Committee would propose to admit to the school students other than those sent by the Colonial Office, as it is believed that missionary societies and other bodies would wish to give their medical officers the advantage of training in the School.
The Committee of the Seamen's Hospital Society will be happy to entertain any suggestions for the modification of the scheme that the Secretary of State may see fit
I am, &c.,
to make.
Enclosure in No. 17.
ESTIMATE.
CAPITAL EXPENDITURE.
P. MICHELLI,
Secretary.
Estimated cost of establishing and working a School for the Study of Tropical Diseases :-
Cost of New Wing (building)
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(piling) Furniture, Fittings, &c.
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CURRENT EXPENDITURE.
Cost of maintaining, say, 25 additional beds occupied (the total number
added being 27) at £78 per annum each
Board of six students, one laboratory man, and two ser-
vants, at £30 per annum each
Chemicals, repairs, &c.
Salary of Bacteriologist, say
Wages of Laboratory Man, say
Wages of two Servants at £16 per aunum each Sundries, clerical work, printing, stationery, &c. Interest on Capital (£13,000) at 3 per cent. Depreciation on school only, say
£270 0 0
75 0 0
150 0 0
£1,950 0 0
30 0 0
32 0 0
50 0 0
390 0 0
100 0 0
£1,097 0
0 £3,047 0
0
Equivalent to interest at the rate of 3 per cent. per annum on a capital sum not ex- ceeding £100,000.
NOTE.-Maintenance of six students for 10 months in the year at 4 guineas per week, approximately per annum, £1,100.
Proposed fees for a course of not less than 4 weeks:-
8493.
Resident Students, per week
Non-resident Students, per week
No. 18.
CHARING CROSS HOSPITAL to COLONIAL OFFICE.
(Received April 18, 1898.)
£4 4
0
2 12
6.
Charing Cross Hospital Medical School, 62 to 65, Chandos Street,
London, W.C., April 16, 1898.
SIR,
In reply to your letter of the 11th ultimo,* the Committee of the Charing Cross Hospital Medical School instruct me to inform you that some years ago, simultaneously with St. George's Hospital, they appointed Dr. Manson Lecturer on Tropical Diseases; that in each year when there is a sufficient number of students a systematic course of lectures is delivered; and that from time to time during each year Dr. Manson gives clinical lectures on cases of tropical disease which may have been admitted into the Charing Cross Hospital. The laboratories of the School are open to any who may wish to engage in the study or investigation of tropical diseases. I am, &c.,
£7,500 0 0
1,200 0 0 750 0 0
£9,450 0 0
9662.
No. 19.
H. MONTAGUE MURRAY,
Dean.
Cost of School Buildings:-
One Laboratory
One Pathological Room One Ante-room
Sleeping Accommodation Mess Room, Offices, &c.
Appliances for Laboratory Furniture, Fittings, &c.
£3,150 0 0
150 0 0
250 0
0
- £3,550 0 h
..£13,000 0 0
Total Cost of New Wing and School Buildings ...
SIR,
VICTORIA UNIVERSITY, LIVERPOOL, to COLONIAL OFFICE. (Received May 2, 1898.)
University College, Liverpool, April 30, 1898.
I AM instructed by the Medical Faculty of this College, in reply to your letter of March 11th, 1898, to state: (1) That there are exceptional facilities in the hospitals of Liverpool for the study of tropical diseases; (2) that every effort is and will be made by the teachers and authorities of the medical school to impress upon students
* No. 12.
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
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