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the causes of tropical diseases, I have the honour to inform you that the sum of £100 in aid of the scheme will be placed on the Estimates for 1900, and that I have no doubt that the vote will be cheertully passed by the Legislative Council:
I have, &c.,
G. T. M. O'BRIEN.
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candidates who possess the diploma of the Liverpool school this course of training will be dispensed with.
They would be glad, however, to hear from you that in this they have rightly under- stood the intentions of the Colonial Office.
Yours, &c.,
ALFRED L. JONES.
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STRAITS SETTLEMENTS AND FEDERATED MALAY STATES. GOVERNOR AND HIGH COMMISSIONER SIR C. B. H. MITCHELL to Mr.
CHAMBERLAIN.
(Received 11.28 a.m., February 9, 1899.)
[Answered by No, 173.] TELEGRAM.
Referring to your telegram of 5th February,* necessary to obtain approval of Legislature to resolution passed by Executive Council Federated Malay States adverse to School of Medicine. Despatch follows by mail.
3552.
SIR,
No. 165.
MR. C. W. DANIELS to COLONIAL OFFICE.
(Received February 11, 1899.)
Calcutta, January 24, 1899.
No. 166A.
JAMAICA.
GOVERNOR SIR A. W. L. HEMMING to MR. CHAMBERLAIN.
(Rescived February 13, 1899.)
(No. 41.)
SIR,
[Answered by No. 174.]
King's House, Jamaica, January 25, 1899,
I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatel No. 568, dated the 25th November last,* in regard to the establislum.ent of a School of Tropical Medicine in London and the Commission appointed by you to study the subject of tropical malaria, and to inform you that I propose asking the Legislative Council to vote £500, to be spread over two years, as the contribution of this Colony towards the expense of the schemes,
I have. &..
AUGUSTUS W. L. HEMMING,
Governor.
No. 167.
STRAITS SETTLEMENTS.
GOVERNOR SIR C. B. 11. MITCHELL to Mr. CHAMBERLAIN. (Received 9.40 a.m., February 15, 1899.)
TELEGRAM.
[Answered by No. 173.]
Referring to my telegram of January 31,† Legislative Council assents.
I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of November 19th, 1898, † and have acted accordingly.
2. I have forwarded a report of the investigations in progress here direct to the Malaria Investigation Committee by this mail.
3. I shall probably leave for Africa viâ Zanzibar on February 17th. In the event, however, of any important research being incomplete at that date, I might post- pone my departure till the next boat in the first week of March, as that will be only a few days beyond the two months I was instructed to spend here, unless I hear to the
contrary.
3850.
I have, &c.,
C. W. DANIELS.
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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
Reference :-
C.O.885
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3707.
No. 166.
MR. A. L. JONES to COLONIAL OFFICE.
SIR,
(Received February 13, 1899.)
[Answered by No. 171.]
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African House, Water Street, Liverpool, February 11, 1899. Liverpool School of Tropical Diseases.
On behalf of my Committee, I am to thank you for your reply dated 1st February, 1899, to my letter of 6th January,§ relating to the study of tropical diseases. The Committee are glad to note that in the selection of candidates for medical ap- pointments in the colonies preference will be given to those who have received instruc- tion in tropical medicine such as will be provided in the Liverpool school.
In a letter from the Colonial Office to the Dean of the Medical Faculty, dated 9th November, 1898, and published in the London papers, it is stated that:
"It is proposed
that the selected candidates shall be trained for at least two months in the Seamen's Hospital at the Albert Docks."
The Committee infer from your letter of the 1st of February‡ that in the case of
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SIR,
No. 168.
COLONIAL OFFICE to CROWN AGENTS.
Downing Street, February 15, 1899.
I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Chamberlain to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 26th January, respecting the allotment of the sums which you have received or may receive on account of the School of Tropical Medicine and the Malarial Fever Commission.
2. I am to inform you that the Treasury grant of £1,775, which has been promised to the School of Tropical Medicine, and which, as you have been informed in the letter from this Office of the 19th December,§ may be expected about the end of the first quarter of 1899, should, when received, be paid over to that object, and that of all the other sums which you may receive, £1,775 should be allotted to the School, and all the remainder to the Malaria Commission. In other respects, the distribution of the money is left to your discretion.
I am, &c.,
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↑ No. 158.
‡ No. 157.
C. P. LUCAS.
§ No. 134.
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