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Under agreement with the African Trans-Continental Telegraph Company, this Company has taken over and will work at its own cost until the 31st May, 1901, the lines of the first-named Company, and I am to inform you that, agreeably with Mr. Secretary Chamberlain's suggestion, my Board will have pleasure in giving instructions that the messages of the Commission which is proceeding to British Central Africa for the purpose of investigating the causes and cure of malaria shall be sent over the African Trans-Continental Telegraph Line free of charge.
&c.,
I am,
J. F. JONES,
Secretary.
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instructed to say that the applications for free messages are increasing so much that the Board of the Eastern and South African Telegraph Company have been forced to limit the granting of such applications. My Directors, however, in this instance will grant the desired facilities for the transmission of free messages over our cables, subject to the restriction mentioned by you, that the the privilege should be most sparingly used. If you will be kind enough to advise me when the Commission is supposed to arrive out, we will give the necessary instructions to the different stations referred to.
I am,
&c.,
GEORGE DRAPER,
27771.
No. 129.
Secretary.
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SIR,
FOREIGN OFFICE to ÇOLONIAL OFFICE.
(Received December 9, 1898.)
Foreign Office, December 8, 1898. I HAVE laid before the Marquess of Salisbury your letter of the 3rd instant,* and I am directed by His Lordship to transmit to you, under flying seal, a despatch ad- dressed to the Acting Commissioner and Consul-General for British Central Africa, instructing him to issue the necessary orders to the Customs authorities of the Protec- torate for the admission into it free of all dues of the scientific apparatus which Drs. Stephens and Christophers propose to take out with them.
The presentation of this despatch to the Customs authorities will be sufficient to secure the exemption desired.
I am, &c.,
24841.
No. 130.
FRANCIS BERTIE.
COLONIAL OFFICE to ROYAL SOCIETY.
SIR,
Downing Street. December 9, 1898. TAM directed by Mr. Secretary Chamberlain to transmit to you, for the use of the Malaria Investigation Committee, the accompanying Medical Reports upon the cases of officers of the West African Colonies who have died of malaria or blackwater fever during the last six years.
2. These reports are sent in original, and should be eventually returned to this Department.
3. I am also to transmit to you the accompanying copies of two letters from the Secretary to the Foreign Missions Section of the Free Church of Scotland, enclosing certain papers which he thinks may be of use to the Malaria Investigation Commission
4. The last-mentioned papers, which are sent in original, should eventually he returned to the Secretary, whose address is:--
Free Church of Scotland Offices,
Edinburgh.
26650.
No. 131a.
MR. CHAMBERLAIN to the GOVERNORS of SELF-GOVERNING COLONIES.
(Circular.)
SIR,
Downing Street, December 15, 1898, I HAVE the honour to transmit to you the accompanying copy of a circular 19th Aug. despatch* which I have addressed to the Governors of the Crown Colonies on the subject 1898. of the establishment of a School of Tropical Medicine in London and the collection of pathological specimens for use in the school,
2. In supporting the scheme for the establishment of this school, my primary object has been to se ure facilities for the instruction of doctors who may be selected by the Secretary of State for medical appointments in the tropics; and it is on this ground that the Crown Colonies only, and not all of them, have been asked to mako emaribations.
3. I trust. however, that your Ministers will bring the scheme to the notice of the Governing Bodies of the leading Medical Institutions in the Colony under your Government, and will invite them to make, if possible, contributions of pathological specimens, medical literature, etc., to the museum or library of the new school. Such contributions. I need scarcely say, would be highly appreciated.
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4. I also enclose a copy of another circular despatch† which has been addressed to 6th Dec. the Governors of the same Colonies on the subject of a Commission which has been 1898. appointed to investigate the question of malarial fever.
5. You will observe that mention is made of the possible connection between malaria and mosquitoes, and if the circular is applicable to any district in the Colony, I shall be glad if your Ministers would be good enough to have collectious of tla in-vents in question made and sent to the Natural History, branch of the British Museum.
28314.
I have, &c.,
J. CHAMBERLAIN,
I am, &c.,
A
R. L. ANTROBUS.
No. 132.
27819.
SIR,
No. 131.
The EASTERN AND SOUTH AFRIÇAN TELEGRAPH COMPANY to
COLONIAL OFFICE.
(Received December 10, 1898.)
[Answered by No. 138.]
The Eastern and South African Telegraph Company, Limited, Winchester House, Old Broad Street, London, E.C.,
December 9, 1898.
IN further reference to your letter of the 3rd instant, advising this Company of the sending out of a scientific commission to study the causes and cure of malaria, I am
‡ No. 120,
• No. 121.
+ Enclosure in No. 92, and No. 93.
SIR,
GENERAL MEDICAL COUNCIL to COLONIAL OFFICE. (Received December 17, 1898.)
General Council of Medical Education and Registration of the United Kingdom,
299, Oxford Street, London, W., December 16, 1898.
I HAVE to inform you that, at its recent session, I presented to this Council the communication which you were good enough to forward, containing information as to the arrangements made by your Department for giving to Colonial Medical Officers special clinical instruction in tropical diseases, and that the communication was ordered to be received and entered in the minutes.
I have, &c.,
H. E. ALLEN,
Registrar.
• No. 54.
† No. 125a.
‡ No. 95.
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