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12th of April, and you will be entitled to salary from that date, and you will be entitled to the subsistence allowance from the date of your arrival in India.
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You will be allowed your actual travelling expenses in India if transport is not provided for you by the Indian Government.
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No. 3.
I am, &c.,
C. P. LUCAS.
--COLONIAL OFFICE to DR. J. W. W. STEPHENS.
[Answered by No. 45.]
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SIR,
Downing Street, March 18, 1901. I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Chamberlain to inform you that, after consul- tation with the Royal Society, he has approved of the investigations with regard to Malarial fever which have been carried out by the Malarial Commission in Africa being continued in India by Dr. Christophers and yourself.
2. It is anticipated that these further investigations will last for one year, and you will receive' during this period, or such shorter period as the work may be actually found to occupy, salary at the rate of £400 a year, and a subsistence allowance at the rate of £120 a year.
3. You will be entitled to the salary and subsistence allowance from the date on which you begin your scientific work, the period occupied by the voyage from England being included in this time.
4. You will be allowed your actual travelling expenses in India from the same date, if transport is not provided for you by the Indian Government.
5. The actual cost of your passage from this country to India will be refunded to you on your stating the amount.
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of railway employees and others, using principally metallic wire netting. I made a careful translation of this paper for the use of Medical Officers and others here. I have reason to believe that Professor Celli's paper has done not a little good in this community.
3. By a happy coincidence the kindness of Professor Koch, of Berlin, enabled me to make at the same time translations of his latest reports. These also have pro- duced a deep impression here, illustrating as they do the results of the treatment of fever by quinine without the use of mechanical protestion. I also enclose a copy of these translations.*
4. These papers in no way change the line of action already entered on here. Our efforts will continue to be directed:-
(a) To reduce the numbers of mosquitoes;
(b) To protect as far as we can by mechanical means;
(c) To have quinine administered wherever possible.
It is not necessary that I should trouble you with the details involved in carrying out these principles.
(No. 1.) SIR,
Enclosure in No. 5.
CIRCULAR.
I have, &c.,
W. MACGREGOR,
Governor.
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
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I am, &c.,
C. P. LUCAS.
No. 4.
COLONIAL OFFICE to CROWN AGENTS.
GENTLEMEN,
Downing Street, March 18, 1901. WITH reference to previous correspondence, I am directed by Mr. Secretary Chamberlain to request you to provide a passage to Calcutta, first class, for Dr. S. R. Christophers by the steamer leaving this country on the 12th of April, and to charge the cost to the Malaria Commission Fund.
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(No. 48.)
No. 5.
LAGOS.
I am, &c.,
C. P. LUCA...
GOVERNOR SIR W. MACGREGOR to MR. CHAMBERLAIN.
(Received March 19, 1901.)
[Answered by No. 10.]
Government House, Lagos, February 22, 1901.
I HAVE the honour to enclose, herewith, copy of a circular I have caused to be issued to all Officers of this service, with a view of improving their sanitary condition generally, but more particularly with respect to malarial fever.
2. To Professor Celli, of Rome, I was indebted for an early copy of his important and convincing paper on the results obtained by him from the mechanical protection
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Colonial Secretariat, Lagos, February 23, 1901.
I AM directed by His Excellency the Governor to forward, herewith, for your information, a translation of a Report* by the Honourable Professor A. Celli, of Rome, which has been written to show the very strikingly successful results of the mechanical means adopted on the Italian Railways for guarding against the infection of malarial fever by the Anopheles group of mosquitoes.
The Governor is desirous of having in the quarters of each officer at least one apart- ment that should be mosquito proof, and could be used more particularly as a dining. room and sitting room. Each such apartment should be designed and built more or less on the lines indicated in the article by Professor Celli, which is mentioned above. The Governor would, accordingly, be glad to receive from you at your convenience, any plan or suggestions that you would wish to offer with reference to the preparation of a mosquito-proof room in the quarters occupied by you.
2. I enclose also, for your careful perusal, translation* from the latest Reports of Privy Councillor Professor Robert Koch, of Berlin. You will gather from these that the great German pathologist attaches immense value to the regular administra- tion of quinine as a preventive of malarial fever. The efficacy of quinine as a specific poison to the malaria parasites has been well established by other great authorities, but nowhere has this been more clearly demonstrated than by the recent experiments and observations of Professor Koch.
The Governor, therefore, suggests that every officer should regularly use quinine as a preventive of malarial fever, either by, taking a daily dose of from three to five grains; or one or two regular weekly doses of ten to fifteen grains. This should be taken at times when the person in question is not affected by fever.
I enclose, herewith, a form* prepared by the Acting Chief Medical Officer, which
I would request you to kindly fill up and transmit to the Chief Medical Officer, that you may be supplied with the quantity of quinine you desire to take as a preventive during your present tour of service.
3. The Governor would also be glad to receive from you any suggestions for deal- ing with any breeding grounds of mosquitoes that may be situated in the neighbourhood of your quarters, such as by the use of petroleum, by filling up or draining pools, by making water tanks inaccessible to mosquitoes, &c.. &c.
I have, &c.
C. H. HARLEY MOSELEY,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
* Not reprinted.
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