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2. I have to inform you that I concur in the views expressed by the Committee in their letter of the 27th February.
I have, &c.,
7120.
No. 23.
J. CHAMBERLAIN.
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COLONIAL OFFICE to THE MALARIA INVESTIGATION COMMITTEE.
Downing Street, April 3, 1900.
SIK,
I.AM directed by Mr. Secretary Chamberlain to transmit to you, to be laid before the Malaria Investigation Committee, with reference to previous correspondence on the subject, the enclosed copy of a further lettert from Dr. Daniels relative to his researches in British Central Africa, and of a letter from the Foreign Office enclosing a despatch from the Commissioner of the British Central Africa Protectorate on the same subject.
2. I am to request you to inform the Committee that the telegram to Dr. Daniels, instructing him to remain and work out carafatto, was duly despatched as dictated by them on the 22nd of February.
I am, &c.,
C. P. LUCAS.
the Foreign Office, covering a despatch from Her Majesty's Ambassador at Rome, from which you will observe that the Italian Minister of Public Instruction has pro- mised that all possible assistance shall be given by the local authorities to your experi- ment in erecting a mosquito-proof hut in the Campagna.
2. It would appear from the last sentence of his despatch that Lord Currie is under the impression that you are to take charge of the undertaking in person, but the slip does not, of course, affect the tenour of the despatch.
3. Mr. Chamberlain understands that you had suspended any action with regard to fitting out the expedition until you had received the assurance of the 20-operation of the Italian Government, and he would be glad if you would be good enough to inform him when the necessary arrangements have been completed.
12649.
No. 26.
I am, &c.,
C. P. LUCAS,
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
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SIR,
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No. 24.
MR. CHAMBERLAIN to THE GOVERNORS OF THE GAMBIA and SIERRA LEONE. (Gambia. No. 29.) (Sierra Leone. No. 85.)
Downing Street, April 6, 1900.
I HAVE the honour to inform you that I have received from the Liverpool School of Tropical Diseases a copy of "Instructions for the Prevention of Malarial Fover,"§ based upon the discovery that this fever is conveyed by mosquitoes or gnats of the genus "Anopheles," which have been issued by the School, and that, after consulting Dr. Manson, consider it desirable that these instructions should be distributed as widely as possible among Government officials and other persons resident in West Africa.
2. I have, therefore, asked the Committee to have (Gambia) 10 of the instructions sent to you, and I request you to have them distributed to such
(Sierra Leone) 30
copies
persons as you may think best.
3. These copies will be supplied at 1s. per copy, and I have instructed the Crown Agents for the Colonies to pay for them. Further copies will be supplied if required.
I have, &c.,
10262.
SIR,
No. 25.
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J. CHAMBERLAIN.
COLONIAL OFFICE to D. P. MANSON.
[Answered by No. 26.]
Downing Street, April 9, 1900.
I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Chamberlain to transmit to you, with reference
to the letter from this Department of the 5th ultimo, the enclosed copy of a letter¶ from
DR. P. MANSON to COLONIAL OFFICE.
(Received April 25, 1900.)
21, Queen Anne Street, Cavendish Square, W., April 24, 1900.
I BEG to inform you that the mosquito hut intended for the experiment on malaria in the Roman Campagna is now ready. I have instructed Messrs. Humphry, the builders, to forward it to Italy by the first opportunity, probably early in May, and have requested them to send their account to the Crown Agents for the Colonies.
The observers, Drs. Sambon and Low, will start for Italy about the same time.
12649.
SIR,
2.
No. 27.
I have, &c.,
PATRICK MANSON.
COLONIAL OFFICE to FOREIGN OFFICE.
Downing Street, April 27, 1900. I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Chamberlain to transmit to you, with reference to your letter of the 31st of March, a copy of a lettert from Dr. Patrick Manson, respecting the proposed erection of a mosquito-proof hut in the Roman Campagna, with a view to testing the protection which it would afford from malaria.
2. Mr. Chamberlain would suggest, for the consideration of the Marquess of Salisbury, that the Italian Government should be asked to admit the hut free of duty. 3. I am to take this opportunity of pointing out, with reference to the con- cluding portion of the enclosure in your letter referred to above, that the experiment has been entrusted to Dr. Sambon and Dr. Low, and that Dr. Manson will not him- self proceed to Italy.
am, &c.,
C. P. LUCAS.
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