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The climate, per se, is good, and cannot be considered as a cause of debility. For the consideration of sequelae we have malaria in its simplest form. 3. More work can be done here by us than would be possible in the usual damp, hot, tropical climate.
4. Our knowledge of the local malarial parasitology is incomplete even in this place. We know nothing of it in other parts of the Colony, particularly in the Lake District, where in proportion to the population "black water fever" is most common.
To leave British Central Africa before this parasitology has been thoroughly worked out would not only destroy the credit of the Commission but would foster the belief that such knowledge is unattainable without perfect conditions.
5. We receive more active assistance from the profession than we are sure of else- where.
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6. Work on the relation of mosquitoes to malaria has hardly been commenced.
The difficulties in the way of that investigation are less than Ross had in Calcutta, as his cases were not even out-patients.
The paucity of mosquitoes in a way is a help, as we have only a small selection to make for our experiments. Even if we fail to breed from the scanty supply found in Blantyre, Dr. Christophers has shown that we can get the same species abundantly in the plains.
7. Halteridium will well repay study, and the Tetse Fly is sufficiently cognate to our subject.
8. Though we are not likely to obtain post-mortem examinations here on natives we should have no certainty of obtaining them elsewhere, as deaths from acute malaria are Fare where energetic treatment is carried out; and most savages object to such examinations of their friends.
9. We are as likely to see blackwater cases here as elsewhere.
No doubt we shall have to modify our plans and not limit our work to the hospital here. The difficulties are rather an argument for extending our time, and the experience gained in the best way of working both on malarial cases and on mosquitoes will not be thrown away in any place we may visit.
My object in writing this report is the hope that as much time as possible may be spent here till the more important problems are worked out.
To the Malarial Committee,
16386,
The Royal Society.
I have, &c.,
C. W. DANIELS.
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} No. 224.
COLONIAL OFFICE to CROWN AGENTS.
GENTLEMEN,
Downing Street, June 30, 1899. I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Chamberlain to transmit to you the accompanying account, with supporting vouchers, of expenses incurred in the purchase of apparatus and books for the Malaria Investigation Commission; and I am to request you to be good enough to make the necessary payments from the funds at your disposal as soon as possible.
You should receive at an early date a cheque from the Royal Society for £300 to be placed to the credit of the Malaria Commission fund.
15365.
SIR,
No. 225.
I am, &c.,
C. P. LUCAS.
COLONIAL OFFICE to SEAMEN'S HOSPITAL SOCIETY.
Downing Street, June 30, 1899. I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Chamberlain to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 15th of June,† relating to the admission of officers in the Service of the Colonies to the Hospitals of the Seamen's Hospital Society.
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2. I am to express Mr. Chamberlain's satisfaction that the Medical Council of the Society are giving attention to this question, and, as his suggestions are invited, observe that in the Colonies on the West Coast of Africa, which would no doubt furnish a large proportion of the officials who would value admission to the Hospitals, there are practically no European officers in receipt of so low a salary as £200 per annum. therefore to suggest that the limit of salary regulating admission to the Hospitals should be raised to £400 per annum, and that the rates of payment for admission should be graduated according to salaries, the minimum limit being somewhat lower than the rates mentioned in your letter.
3. The Secretary of State will guarantee the payments due from any officer in the Service of the Colonies who may be admitted to the Hospitals, provided that admission at the privileged rates is made in each case with his knowledge and sanction. It will then be possible to arrange, if necessary, that deductions to cover the cost of the Hospital treatment shall be made from the officer's leave salary.
I am, &c.,
H. BERTRAM COX,
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No. 223.
SIERRA LEONE.
16412.
MR. CHAMBERLAIN to ACTIng-Governor Major NATHAN. (No. 136.) SIR,
Downing Street, June 30, 1899.
I HAVE the honour to inform you that I have learned from the Honorary Secretary of the School of Tropical Diseases, recently established at Liverpool, that a Research Ex. pedition organised by the School will proceed to Sierra Leone in August next for the purpose of investigating the causes of Malaria and other tropical diseases.
2. As at present arranged, the Expedition will consist of Major D. Ross, D.Ph., M.R.C.S., late of the Indian Medical Service, and Dr. H. L. Annett, M.B., D.Ph., and possibly of one or two students as assistants.
3 I have to request you to be good enough to facilitate the work of the Expedition by rendering any assistance which it may be in your power to give.
I have, &c.,
J. CHAMBERLAIN.
(No. 166.)
SIR,
No. 226
MAURITIUS.
"MR. CHAMBERLAIN to GOVERNOR SIR C. BRUCE.
Downing Street, July 1, 1899. I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the reegipt of your despatch No. 196 of the 29th of May last, stating that the Council of Government have voted a contribution of £150, to be paid in one instalment, towards the establishment of a School of Tropical Medicine and the institution of a Malaria Investigation Commission.
2. desire to express my thanks to the Council of Government and yourself for so readily agreeing to the contribution suggested in my despatch of the 25th of November last. I am glad to observe that it is recognized that the project is one of great importance to Tropical Colonies.
• See enclosure in No. 220.
† No. 213.
‡ No. 219.
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