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SIR,
No. 116.
COLONIAL OFFICE to TREASURY.
[Answered by No. 122.]
Downing Street, November 25, 1898. WITH reference to your letter of the 18th of June,* I am directed by. Mr. Secretary Chamberlain to request you to lay before the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury the enclosed copy of a circular letter† to the Medical Schools of this country, from which it will be seen that arrangements are now being actively made for the pro- posed School of Tropical Medicine at the Seamen's Hospital, Greenwich.
2. A fund is being established with the Crown Agents for the Colonies for the receipt of the contribution which has been promised by the Imperial Government, and the contributions which the Colonial Governments are being called upon to make.
Mr. Chamberlain will be glad if their Lordships will now give the Crown Agents an order on the Paymaster-General for the payment of the promised Imperial contribu- tion of £1,775.
I am, &c.,
26240
No. 117.
C. P. LUCAS.
COLONIAL OFFICE to the AFRICAN LAKES CORPORATION, LIMITED.
[Answered by No. 119.]
Downing Street, November 29, 1898.
SIR,
I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Chamberlain to inform you, with reference to your letter of the 4th of October, that two of the experts appointed to investigate the ques- tion of malarial fever in Africa—namely Dr. J. W. W. Stephens and Dr. S. R. Chris- tophers will leave this country by the Castle Line steamer of the 8th December, and will probably arrive at Chinde about the middle of January.
I am to ask you to be good enough, in accordance with your previous kind offer, to instruct your agents at Chinde to make the necessary arrangements for the reception of Dr. Stephens and Dr. Christophers, and for having them met on their arrival at that port.
Dr. Daniels, the third expert, proceeded to India on the 18th inst., and will remain in that country for a short time for the purpose of becoming acquainted with the in- vestigations which are being carried out by Major Ross, of the Indian Medical De- partment.
The probable date of his arrival at Chinde will be notified to you as soon as this De- partment is in a position to do so.
I am, &c.,
26240.
SIR,
No. 118.
R. L. ANTROBUS.
COLONIAL OFFICE to FOREIGN OFFICE.
[Answered by No. 125.]
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Downing Street, November 29, 1898. I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Chamberlain to inform you, with reference to previous correspondence, that Dr. J. W. W. Stephens, and Dr. S. R. Christophers, two of the experts appointed to investigate the question of malarial fever in Africa, will leave this country, by the Castle Line steamer of the 8th of December, and will probably arrive at Chinde about the middle of January.
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These gentlemen are entitled to salary at the rate of £400 a year, and to a main- tenance allowance of £100 a year. They will draw the salary from the date of leaving this country, but the maintenance allowance only from the date of their arrival in the British Central Africa Protectorate.
The third expert, Dr. C. Daniels, proceeded to India on the 18th inst. for the pur- pose of studying for a short time under Major Ross, of the Indian Medical Department. On the completion of his course of study in India he will proceed to the British Central Africa Protectorate to join the other two observers, but he will probably stop for a few days at Zanzibar, and Mr. Chamberlain will be glad if the Marquess of Salis. bury will be good enough to recommend him to the good offices of Her Majesty's repre- sentative at that place.
Dr. Daniels' salary will be at the rate of £500 per annum from the 20th of December next, and at the rate of £525 per annum from the 20th of December, 1899. He is also entitled to a maintenance allowance at the rate of £100 per annum, but, as in the case of the two other experts, he is only entitled to draw it from the date of his arrival in British Central Africa.
Mr. Chamberlain would ask that instructions may be given to Her Majesty's Com- . missioner for the British Central Africa Protectorate to issue both salary and main- tenance allowance to the three observers every month, and to recover the amounts issued from the Crown Agents for the Colonies.
Dr. Daniels will act as financial secretary to the party, and he has been directed to draw upon and render accounts to the Commissioner for the British Central Africa Pro- tectorate, and in any cases of doubt or difficulty to communicate with this Department. The three observers will be allowed their actual travelling expenses in Africa, but Mr. Chamberlain thinks it advisable that no expenditure of this kind exceeding £10 shall at present be incurred without authority from this Office.
On the completion of their work in the British Central Africa Protectorate, they will probably proceed to West Africa, and will be entitled to free first class passages from Chinde to their next destination.
27097.
No. 119.
I am, &c.,
R. L. ANTROBUS.
The AFRICAN LAKES CORPORATION, LIMITED to COLONIAL OFFICE. (Received December 2, 1898.) [Answered by No. 127.]
The African Lakes Corporation, Limited, 45, Renfield Street, Glasgow.
December 1, 1898.
DEAR SIR,
We have duly received your communication of 29th instant,* and note that Drs. Stephens and Christophers will leave this country on 8th current for British Central Africa, where they will be joined later by Dr. Daniels. friends at Chinde within the next day or two informing them of the probable date when We are telegraphing to our Drs. Stephens and Christophers will reach there, and asking them to make all necessary preparations for the speedy and pleasant journey up-country of these two gentlemen.
In addition to providing these three experts with free passages to Blantyre, our Directors have instructed our Manager in Africa to give them free passages in any of our steamers in which they may have occasion to travel while prosecuting their en- quiries.
We earnestly trust that the investigations of these gentlemen may eventually lead to the increased prosperity of British Central Africa,
And are, &c.,
THE AFRICAN LAKES CORPORATION, LIMITED,
FRED. L.M. MOIR.
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Secretary.
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