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COLONIAL OFFICE to SIR J. WEST RIDGEWAY, SIR PATRICK MANSON, SIR R. MOOR, and SIR T. BARLOW.
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Downing Street, July 8, 1904.
I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Lyttelton to enclose, for your information, a copy of a circular despatch* addressed by Mr. Chamberlain to the various colonial Governments on the 28th of May, 1903, in which he summed up the steps which had been taken up to that date in connection with the investigation of malaria and the training of medical officers in the treatment and prevention of tropical diseases. 2. In the last paragraph of that despatch, Mr. Chamberlain emphasized the fact that the work which had been done should be carried further, and suggested that colonial contributions might be paid into a common fund, out of which the objects to which his despatch had referred might be subsidized. He added that should his suggestion be entertained by the Crown Colonies and Protectorates, he would propose to "appoint a Board to advise the Secretary of State as to how the moneys received can at any given time be best allotted, such Board to consist of the Medical Adviser to the Colonial Office, a representative of the Royal Society, some leading London physician, one or more representatives of the Crown Colonies, and one or more members of the Colonial Office."
3. The result of this despatch and of subsequent despatches addressed to the colonies and protectorates by Mr. Lyttelton, has been that a sum of at least £1,500 a year is now available from colonial funds for a period of five years. Further, from the 1st of April next a sum of £500 a year will be available from Imperial funds for a similar period, and the Secretary of State for India is inviting the Government of India to consider favourably the question of making a contribution from Indian revenues to this general fund.
4. Mr. Lyttelton accordingly considers that the time has now come to appoint the Board which Mr. Chamberlain's despatch indicated, to advise him as to how the moneys received from the various sources can at any given time be best applied.
5. The functions of the Board would be advisory. They would be asked to advise the Secretary of State what money, if any, should be allotted at a given time to a given agency, and on what conditions. The agencies which are at present at work in the direction of the improvement of life and health in malarious colonies are the London School of Tropical Medicine, the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, the Tropical Diseases Committee of the Royal Society, and the Cenial Nursing Association. These agencies may well hereafter be supplemented by others. It will be the duty of the Board to ensure that annual accounts are supplied
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