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No. 172. MALTA.
COLONIAL OFFICE to ADMIRALTY and WAR OFFICE.
SIR,
Downing Street, November 21, 1904. I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Lyttelton to inform you [to Admiralty] [with reference to the letter from this Department of the 1st of November], [to War Office] [with reference to your letter of the 20th of October],† that the Lords Com- missioners of the Treasury have declined to sanction the proposed increase of subsistence allowance to Colonel David Bruce, R.A.M.C., while absent from England in connection with the investigation of Mediterranean fever.
2. Colonel Bruce has been informed accordingly.
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It appears now, however, that the authority of the Secretary of State is required before this charge can be made upon Malta funds. I therefore forward the account to you, and have to ask you to be good enough to take such steps as may be necessary, to authorize its payment out of the local funds of Malta.
I am, &c.,
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ARCH. GEIKIE,
Secretary, Royal Society.
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
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No. 173.
MALTA.
I am, &c.,
H. BERTRAM COX.
COLONIAL OFFICE to COLONEL D. BRUCE.
SIR,
Downing Street, November 21, 1904. I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Lyttelton to inform you, with reference to your letter of the 29th of September, and the acknowledgment from this Department of the 8th of October, that your application for the increase of your subsistence allowance while absent from England in connection with the investigation of Mediterranean fever from 10s. to 30s. a day has been referred to the Treasury, and that the Lords Commissioners are not prepared to sanction the departure from the normal Army rate of subsistence allowance which would be involved in the proposed increase.
2. The Lords Commissioners of the Treasury (I am to explain) are unable to recognise the claim of an Army Officer to be treated on the same lines as a civilian colleague, the conditions of service, &c., being quite dissimilar. Their Lordships remark that a comparison of a more direct character can, however, be instituted between Navy and Army Officers, and that 10s. a day was the sanctioned rate of subsistence allowance for Staff-Surgeon E. A. Shaw, R.N., the Naval representative on the enquiry, so long as he was required to live on shore at Valletta.
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GENTLEMEN,
No. 175.
MALTA.
COLONIAL OFFICE to CROWN AGENTS.
Downing Street, November 25, 1904. I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Lyttelton to request you to transfer from Malta funds to the credit of the Vote for the Local Government Board at the office of the Paymaster-General the sum of £158 0s. 7d., being the amount of the salary due to the substitute who has replaced Dr. Johnstone, one of the Medical Inspectors of the Board, for the period during which the latter has been employed in connexion with an investigation of Malta fever.
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SIR,
No. 176.
MALTA.
I am, &c.,
H. BERTRAM COX.
COLONIAL OFFICE to LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD.
Downing Street, November 25, 1904.
I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Lyttelton to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 17th of November,f and to state, for the information of the Local Government Board, that the Crown Agents for the Colonies have been instructed to transfer the sum of £158 Os. 7d. from Malta funds to the credit of the Vote for the Board at the office of the Paymaster-General.
I am, &o.,
H. BERTRAM COX.
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I am, &c.,
H. BERTRAM COX.
9 PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
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SIR,
No. 174. MALTA.
THE ROYAL SOCIETY to COLONIAL OFFICE. (Received November 23, 1904.)
Burlington House, London, W., November 22, 1904. ADVERTING to previous correspondence relating to the provision for the cost of scientific equipment for the investigation into Mediterranean fever now in progress, I beg leave to call your attention to an account which has been sent in by Messrs. Baird and Tatlock for two microscopes and an incubator. These instru- ments were ordered on the recommendation of Dr. Zammit, of the Public Health Department, Malta, in view of the investigation about to be entered upon by the Commission, but before the Royal Society had undertaken its limited responsibility, as described in the correspondence under reference, for the scientific equipment, and at that time it was understood by the Royal Society that these particular instru- ments would form part of the permanent equipment of the Public Health Laboratory in Malta, and that the expense of their purchase would be borne out of local govern- ment funds. In these circumstances Colonel Bruce, the Chairman of the Commission of Enquiry, does not consider that the cost of these instruments can properly be charged against the Royal Society's equipment fund.
* No. 1535.
† No. 164.
‡ No. 162.
No. 177. MALTA.
MR. LYTTELTON to GOVERNOR SIR C. M. CLARKE. [Answered by No. 180.]
(Confidential.)
SIR,
Downing Street, November 29, 1904. WITH reference to my confidential despatch of the 14th of July last, and to previous correspondence on the subject of the incidence of the cost of the scientific equipment for the investigation into Mediterranean fever, I have the honour to trans- mit to you the accompanying copy of a letter, § with enclosure, which has been received from the Royal Society relative to the cost of certain instruments supplied for the Commission by Messrs. Baird and Tatlock.
2. If the instruments in question are required for the permanent equipment of the Public Health Laboratory in Malta, I approve of the cost being charged to Malta funds.
I have, &c.,
ALFRED LYTTELTON.
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† No. 171.
* No. 126.
§ No. 174.
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