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VI. With regard to the Sleeping Sickness Expedition, the School noted with pleasure the decision of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, as contained in para- graph 8 of your letter of October 9th, with regard to free passages, transport, quarters, and a subsistence allowance of 10s. per diem for the two gentlemen who will compose that expédition.
VII. Owing to recent pressure of scientific work, engaging the attention of some of the doctors likely to be selected for the expeditions, it is unlikely that the expeditions will be able to start before March, as far as can be judged at present.
VIII. As soon as the selection is completed, I shall have the honour to inform you of the personnel of the expedition, and of the arrangements for conducting the investigations.
I am, &c.,
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by the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine; of this total sum £750 would be provided in equal thirds by the Governments of the East Africa, Uganda, and British Central Africa Protectorates as a contribution towards the expenses of the blackwater fever expedition; the remaining £500 would be provided by the British Central Africa Protectorate alone, and would be devoted to the expenses of passage, transport, &c., of the two doctors employed on the sleeping sickness expedition.
I am, &c.,
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COLONIAL OFFICE to THE LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL
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MEDICINE.
[Answered by 7154 în Miscellaneous No. 204.]
Downing Street, December 28, 1906. I AM directed by the Earl of Elgin to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 17th of December† relative to the proposal that the expedition to study aleeping sickness which is about to proceed to the British Central Africa Protec- torate should be combined with a second, the main object of which would be to investigate blackwater fever.
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2. Lord Elgin fully recognizes that advantages are likely to ensue through combination of the two expeditions, but he fears that he must adhere to the deci- Conveyed to you in the letter from this Department of the 12th of November‡ that he cannot ask the Governments of the West African Colonies to contribute to the cost of the blackwater fever expedition, unless he can assure them that the
pedition will proceed to West Africa.
3. His Lordship also does not desire that the other Administrations in Central ¡Africa should be requested, through the British South Africa Company, to pay any part of the expenses of this expedition, unless he learns that the Company is itself inclined to take the matter up.
4 The Secretary of State has, however, ascertained that the Governments of the East Africa and Uganda Protectorates are willing to contribute the total sum of £500, in equal shares, towards the expenses of the expedition to study black- water fever, and he hopes that at the commencement of the next financial year on the 1st of April, 1907, a further sum of £250 will be available as a contribution from the funds of the British Central Africa Protectorate. It will, of course, be under- stood that this sum of £750 (which is the maximum contribution from Govern- ment funds available) would only be granted on condition that an equivalent amount is spent by the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. It will be for the School to decide, therefore, whether, in the circumstances, they desire to proceed with the blackwater fever expedition.
6. With regard to the sleeping sickness expedition the Lards Commissioners of the Treasury have now agreed to the Secretary of State's proposal that the British Central Africa Protectorate should provide the cost of passages to, and transport in, the Protectorate of the two doctors engaged in the investigations, together with free quarters and a subsistence allowance pot exceeding 10s. per Wiem Lord Elgin, however, feels it necessary to put some limit to the expenditure to be incurred by the Protectorate, and he has decided that the amount to be spent must not exceed £500.
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8 To summarize the position, the maximum amount which could be provided Trom Government funds for the two expeditions is £1,250, which would not be granted except on the understanding that at least an equivalent amount is provided
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