77
26240.
SIR,
No. 109.
COLONIAL OFFICE to MR. S. R. CHRISTOPHERS and MR. J. W. W. STEPHENS.
I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Chamberlain to asknowledge the receipt of your
Downing Street, November 23, 1898. 20th November* letter of the
22nd November†
and to inform you that the Crown Agents for the Colo- nies have been instructed to provide a 1st class passage to Chinde for you by the steamer of the 7th of December, and to pay you a personal outfit allowance of £25.
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I am, &c.,
H. BERTRAM COX.
159
́MR. J. W. W. STEPHENS to COLONIAL OFFICE. (Received November 23, 1898.)
[Answered by No. 109.]
Pathological Laboratory, New Museums, Cambridge, November 22, 1898.
RE MALARIA COMMISSION.
I BEG to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 19th inst.*
In reply I beg to state that we shall be prepared to start on the 7th of December.
I am, &c.
J. W. W. STEPHENS.
26324.
SIR,
No. 110.
INDIA OFFICE to COLONIAL OFFICE.
(Received November 24, 1898.)
India Office, Whitehall, London, S.W., November 24, 1898.
I AM directed by the Secretary of State for India in Council to acknowledge the receipt of your letters of the 2nd and 19th instant, ‡ and to inform you that the Govern- ment of India have been requested to make the advances to Dr. Daniels of pay and passage money as therein described.
25297.
No. 107.
25029.
I have, &c.,
HORACE WALPOLE.
SIR,
COLONIAL OFFICE to ROYAL SOCIETY.
Downing Street, November 23, 1898.. I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Chamberlain to transmit to you, for purposes of record, copies of the letterst which have been addressed to the members of the Commis- sion appointed to investigate the question of malarial fever.
No. 111.
MR. CHAMBERLAIN to the GOVERNORS of the GAMBIA, SIERRA LEONE,
LAGOS, and the GOLD COAST.
[Answered by Nos. 188, 148, 179 and 177.]
26240.
(Gambia, No. 83.)
I am, &c.,
(Sierra Leone. No. 244.)
R. L. ANTROBUS.
(Lagos. No. 343.)
(Gold Coast. No. 437.)
SIR,
Downing Street, November 25, 1898.
GENTLEMEN,
No. 108.
COLONIAL OFFICE to CROWN AGENTS.
Downing Street, November 23, 1898. WITH reference to the letters from this Department of the 9th inst. and 19th inst., respecting the Commission which is about to proceed to Africa for the purpose of investigating the question of malarial fever, I am directed by Mr. Secretary Cham- berlain to request you to provide first-class passages to Chinde for Mr. Stephens and Mr. Christophers by the steamer of the 7th of December.
am also to request you to pay to each of those gentlemen the personal outfit al- lowance of £25 to which they are entitled.
I am further to transmit to you the accompanying copy of a letter,§ with enclosures, from the Royal Society, and I am to request you to be good enough to pay the bill of £20 for scientific apparatus and to repay to the Royal Society the sum of £100 men- tioned in the letter, asking them for the necessary vouchers to show that the money has been expended by Messrs. Stephens and Christophers.
I am, &c.,
H. BERTRAM COX.
• No. 101. ↑ Nos. 101 and 102.
Nos. 96 and 103.
§ 26172 Not printed.
I HAVE had under my consideration, more especially in reference to the West Coast of Africa, the important question of the possibility of reducing the abnormal rate
of mortality and sickness among Europeans resident in tropical climates.
2. As you will learn from the encloset circular letters to the Medical Schools of this country, I have, after consultation with some of the principal medical authorities on the subject, decided to take action in two directions, from which I trust that useful results
may be obtained.
3. In the first place, as you will already have gathered from my circular despatch of the 19th of August, it is proposed to establish a School of Tropical Medicine in London, at which the Medical Officers of the Colonies may be given special instruction in the treatment of tropical diseases.
4. I need hardly enlarge upon the importance of this proposal to the inhabitants of the British possessions in West Africa, where the sickness and mortality from such diseases as malarial fever is so considerable. At present the greater number of medical officers at the time of their appointment have little or no knowledge of the diagnosis and treatment of tropical disease, though they may by the exigencies of the service be placed at once in responsible positions, where such a knowledge would be of the highest importance.
5. The authorities of the Seamen's Hospital at Greenwich-of whose teaching staff Dr. Manson is a prominent member--have agreed to the establishment of such a
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