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making preparations (equipment of laboratory, &c.) for the establishment of a chair for protozoology. This was agreed to.
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17. It was decided that the question of granting £100 a year to the Colonial Nursing Association Nursing Association should stand over for the present.
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18. It was agreed to reserve a sum not exceeding £1,000 a year from next year's. income for general purposes of research, and to ask the Tropical Disease Committee of the Royal Society for advice as to how a sum not exceeding this amount could best be spent next year, adding that the Board propose to consult the Committee from time to time with regard to the disposal of other sums that may be available for general purposes.
19. The question under this head (viz., the arrangements to be made with the Tropical Diseases Committee of the Royal Society) was discussed under (3), see previous paragraph.
20. It was decided that the Board should issue one report annually, and should require two reports annually from the beneficiaries of the fund, one before each of the two ordinary meetings.
21. The next meeting was fixed for Tuesday, the 15th of November.
Next Meeting.
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No. 5.
WEST RIDGEWAY.
MEMORANDUM SUBMITTED TO, AND APPROVED BY, MR. LYTTELTON ON NOVEMBER 4, 1904.
The Committee appointed by the Secretary of State in connexion with the Tropical Diseases Fund held its first meeting on the 1st November. The members of the Committee, as Mr. Lyttelton will remember, are Sir West Ridgeway (Chairman), Sir T. Barlow, Sir M. Foster, Sir P. Manson, Sir R. Moor, Mr. Read, and myself, and in addition, provisionally, a representative of the India Office--at present. Mr. Holder- ness inasmuch as the Indian Government are going to subscribe £500 a year to the fund for five years, from the 1st January next, and we assumed that Mr. Lyttelton would cordially agree to their wish to have a representative on the Committee being complied with. Mr. Ezechiel, of this office, is acting as Secretary.
The Committee called themselves "The Advisory Board for the Tropical Disease Research Fund," and have settled to hold two ordinary meetings a year, and such special meetings as may be found necessary, to require half-yearly reports from the beneficiaries of the fund, and to lay before the Secretary of State one annual report.
The money at their disposal at present is as follows:-
(a) from the Tropical Colonies, £1,500 a year for five years;
(b) from Imperial funds, £500 a year for five years, from 1st April next; (c) from Indian Funds, £500 a year for five years, from 1st January next;
(d) £100 a year for three years, from British Guiana Funds, and lump sums from other Colonies amounting to £347, together with a small balance of about £200 from the old Malaria Commission Fund.
We shall thus have at least £2,600 a year to spend, and the Committee proceeded te allot, subject to the Secretary of State's approval, slightly more than that sum for the year 1905, in the following manner:-
(a) £500 to the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, with a prospect of the same sum being allotted in the following four years, subject to the School applying the money to a definite and specific object commending itself to the Committee, and showing by periodical reports that satisfactory work is being done.
(b) £500 to the London School of Tropical Medicine for the establishment of a branch of scientific study, helminthology, recommended by Sir P. Manson, subject to the same conditions as in the case of Liverpool.
(c) A lump sum of £250 to the London School to be laid out on laboratories for the purpose of the above study, and also of a further study referred to under (d).
(d) £500 for the study of protozoology at the London School, as recommended by 'Sir P. Manson, but with the reservation that the teacher in this study may be constituted a Professor in the University of London, the double object being to allow the worth of this sum of £500 per annum to enure to the London School of Tropical Medicine, but that School to be affiliated to, and brought into close connexion with, the University of London. As to how far this reservation should be insisted the
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Committed are at present divided, and will hold a meeting in a fortnight's time to decide. In the meantime the Chairman will consult the Principal of the University of London, and Sir P. Manson will confer with his colleagues at the London School.
(e) A sum not exceeding £1,000 to be applied to research-probably some research expedition in whatever way may be recommended by the special Com- mittee of the Royal Society under whose direction the malaria inquiry instituted by Mr. Chamberlain was carried out, and which is now constituted as a standing Com- mittee for similar purposes.
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SIR,
No. 6.
C. P. L.
COLONIAL OFFICE to THE SEAMEN'S HOSPITAL SOCIETY.
[Answered by No. 12.]
Downing Street, November 4, 1904. I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Lyttelton to inform you that on the recom- mendation of the Advisory Board for the Tropical Disease Research Fund, he pro- poses to grant a sum of £500 from the Fund to the London School of Tropical Medicine, to be laid out during the year beginning on the 1st of January next on some definite and specific object to be approved by the Board.
2. The Board will require to be furnished with evidence, in the form of half- yearly reports, showing that work has been steadily carried on in pursuance of the object of the grant; and, subject to these reports being satisfactory, it is probable that the Board will recommend to the Secretary of State, and the Secretary of State will consent to, the continuation of the grant at the same annual rate for a further period of four years, making five years in all.
3. I am to request that you will inform me whether the Seamen's Hospital Society accept the grant on these conditions, and, if so, that a communication may be addressed to the Secretary to the Board, at the Colonial Office, as to the object to which they propose to devote it, and the manner in which they propose to spend the sum allotted for the year 1905.
4. It is understood from Sir P. Manson that they propose, on his suggestion, to spend the money on the establishment of a chair for the teaching and investiga- tion of helminthology, and, if so, the Board are prepared to approve of this object.
5. It is also proposed to make a further grant from the Fund, of the same amount, for the purpose of establishing a chair for protozoology in connexion with the London School of Tropical Medicine; but the Board are considering the question whether, if the Senate of the University of London would agree, it would not be pre- ferable that this chair should be filled by a professor of the University working entirely at the School and under the control-so far as the regulations of the University would allow of the School authorities, with the intention that the School should ultimately be affiliated, if possible, to the University. I am to enquire whether some such arrangement, if it can be carried out, would be acceptable to the Seamen's Hospital Society; and in the meantime I am to convey authority, for which Sir P. Manson has asked, for the expenditure of a sum not exceeding £250 on the making of preparations, such as the equipment of a laboratory.
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SIR,
No. 7.
I am, &c.,
C. P. LUCAS.
COLONIAL OFFICE to THE LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE.
[Answered by Nos. 9, 23, 46 and 89.]
Downing Street, November 4, 1904. WITH reference to your letter of the 14th November, 1903* and previous corre- spondence, I am directed by Mr. Secretary Lyttelton to inform you that, on the recom- mendation of the Advisory Board for the Tropical Disease Research Fund, he pro- poses to grant a sum of £500 from that fund to the Liverpool School of Tropical
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