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No. 133.
COLONIAL OFFICE to TREASURY.
Downing Street, December 19, 1898. I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Chamberlain to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 5th instant,* and to request you to inform the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury that he consents to the payment of the Imperial contribution towards the School of Tropical Medicine being deferred until Parliament has provided the money upon a Supplementary Estimate for 1898-9.
I am, &c.,
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Hospital. This will deplete the Dreadnought, and deprive the students of St. Mary's of the clinical material they now have the opportunity of studying. Such a result is much to be regretted.
3. The proposed School at the Docks is not, it is stated, intended for students, but for graduates only; therefore the concentration of such cases at the Branch Hospital will not be available to the former, even if the distance from St. Mary's did not alto- gether preclude their using them for clinical study.
4. It is, in my opinion, equally a misfortune and a mistake to deprive students of so essential a part of the study of disease, and points to the conclusion that the proposed scheme requires a good deal of thinking out before it is finally adopted.
I am, &c.,
27320.
No. 134.
R. L. ANTROBUS.
The Dean,
St. Mary's Medical School.
J. ANDERSON.
GENTLEMEN,
COLONIAL OFFICE to CROWN AGENTS.
Downing Street, December 19, 1898.
I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Chamberlain to inform you, with reference to the second paragraph of the letter from this Department of the 9th of November,† that the payment of the Imperial contribution of £1,775 towards the School of Tropical Medicine is being deferred until Parliament has provided the money upon a Supple- mentary Estimate for 1898-9, and that it will therefore not be made until about the end of the first quarter of next year.
I am, &c.,
28604.
DEAR SIR,
No. 135.
R. L. ANTROBUS.
ST. MARY'S HOSPITAL to COLONIAL OFFICE. (Received December 20, 1898.)
[Answered by No. 144.]
St. Mary's Hospital Medical School, Paddington, W.,
December 19, 1898.
WITH reference to the document you were good enough to send from the Colonial Office on behalf of Mr. Secretary Chamberlain, concerning the teaching of tropical diseases and the proposed school, am instructed to submit to you the enclosed written opinion thereupon.
It is signed, on behalf of my Committee, by Dr. Anderson, C.I.E., our Lecturer on Tropical Diseases.
DEAR SIR,
Yours, &c.,
FREDERIC H. MÅDDEN,
Secretary.
Enclosure in No. 135.
9, Harley Street, W., December 15, 1898.
IN compliance with your request, I write to say, with regard to the Memorandum from the Colonial Office on the subject of the proposed School for Tropical Medicine at the Albert Docks, that my reasons for the views I expressed at the meeting of the School Committee on Tuesday are briefly these:-
1. The subject of tropical diseases has been taught at St. Mary's Medical School for the last three years. The lectures have been supplemented by clinical teaching at the bedside of patients in the Dreadnought Hospital, when such cases were in the Hospital, and when the students could find time to go to Greenwich for the purpose.
2. Part of the proposed scheme, as stated by the Secretary of the Seamen's Hospital Society, is to concentrate all cases of tropical disease at the Docks Branch
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27747.
SIR,
No. 136.
COLONIAL OFFICE to MR. J. W. W. STEPHENS.
Downing Street, December 20, 1898. I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Chamberlain to inform you that arrangements have been made with the Eastern and South African Telegraph Company and the British South Africa Company (as representing the African Trans-Continental Tele- graph Company) that, in cases in which the Malaria Investigation Commission may desire to communicate with this Department or the Royal Society upon matters con- nected with their work, the messages shall be sent over the telegraph lines of those Companies free of charge.
2. These privileges have been granted on the understanding that they will be most sparingly used, and I am therefore to ask you and the other Commissioners to be good enough not to have recourse to this method of communication except in cases of absolute necessity.
3. As the telegraph lines of the Cape and Natal are part of the system connecting the African Transcontinental line with this country, the Governments of those Colonies are also being asked to allow the Commission's messages to be sent over their lines free of charge.
27747.
SIR,
No. 137.
I am, &c.,
R. L. ANTROBUS.
COLONIAL OFFICE to the BRITISH SOUTH AFRICA COMPANY. [Answered by No. 238.]
Downing Street, December 20, 1898. I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Chamberlain to acknowledge the receipt of letter of the 8th instant, and to ask you to be good enough to convey his thanks to the your Directors of the British South Africa Company for having kindly consented to arrange that the messages of the Commission which is proceeding to British Central Africa for. the purpose of investigating the question of malarial fever shall be sent over the African Trans-Continental Telegraph Line free of charge.
2. It is intended that the privilege shall be most sparingly used, and instructions are being sent to that effect.
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&c.,
R. L. ANTROBUS.
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