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fully-skilled, competent directors, I have no doubt that great strides would be made in various directions, and possibly in the future the various members of West African Medical Staff might be granted facilities to carry out investigations in any particular direction on their own behalf. The fact of having a fully-equipped laboratory would be useful for obtaining proper stains, &c., &c., and issuing directions for the furtherance of any particular object.
I have, &c., August 3, 1907.
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You are requested to ascertain: (1) if the micro-organism described in these publications occurs in the local disease; and (2) if so, in what proportion of cases; (3) in what situation and elements of the implicated tissues; (4) whether it escapes in the discharges; and (5) its behaviour under natural conditions after it has left the body; (6) in blood agar cultures; (7) in the usual culture media; (8) and in various conditions of temperature. You will also attempt (9) its inoculation into: (a) monkeys; (b) dogs; (c) guinea pigs; (d) rats; and (e) any other mammalian avail- able. (10) You will also attempt, by the usual laboratory methods, to ascertain the nature of this body; and (11) you will forward, within six months of this date. together with a report on your work in connexion with the subject, such preparations as appear to you to illustrate and justify your conclusions. I am, &c.,
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
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Reference :-
18 PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC- COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH--NOT TO
MEMORANDUM BY SIR P. MANSON.
(Received October 10, 1907.)
To obviate overlapping and consequent waste of energy, funds, and opportunity, and to secure that year by year they shall add at least some items to the common stock of knowledge, organisation and direction of the work of the several Colonial Laboratories are indicated. These, however, must not be of a character so stringent as to seriously interfere with the worker's individuality or predilections, or to hamper him in pursuing any special line of research which local and perhaps passing circumstances may put in his way.
His work, therefore, might be arranged under two headings:-
(a) obligatory, and
(b) optional.
Corresponding to this idea I would suggest, for consideration, the following regulations in connection with the Colonial Laboratories, regulations which the respective Directors should be called on to subscribe as a necessary condition of appointment:-
(1) The Director of each laboratory on his taking over charge to receive from his predecessor, together with an inventory of the properties of the laboratory a full record of the investigations already carried out by the laboratory. These, together All such with a record of his own work, he will, in turn, hand to his successor. records to be kept in special indexed books, and be regarded as the property of the laboratory.
(2) On appointment, and from time to time subsequently, the Director of a Colonial Laboratory will be furnished by this Committee with a general statement of the main features of the local pathology he is expected to investigate. This state- ment to be supplemented and elaborated by the outgoing Director.
(3) The Committee may from time to time call on a Director to endeavour to clear up some special point in the local pathology of his district, and, if it thinks fit, indicate the particular method or methods by which the desired knowledge is to be sought for. A specimen letter of instruction is attached.
(4) If not fully occupied in carrying out investigations indicated by the Com- mittee, the Director must employ his time on some definite research, the object and general lines of which he will submit to the Committee for criticism and approval.
(5) No restriction will be placed on publication of scientific work done in the laboratories so long as such publication is not manifestly inimical to the interests of the Government or of the laboratory, but publication of work by the Director of the laboratory as such and in the name of the laboratory will not be permitted without previous sanction by the Committee.
(6) All Directors of Colonial Laboratories shall be required to furnish the Committee with half-yearly reports of work completed, in progress, and contem- plated, such reports to be as far as possible in a form suitable for publication, and to be forwarded not later than 1st February and 1st August of each year.
SIR,
ANNEXURE.
YOUR attention is called to the accompanying publications in so far as they refer to ulcerating granuloma of the pudenda, a disease already known to be specially prevalent in your district.
To the Director of the
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Demerara.
No. 60.
Chairman of the Committee.
DR. G. H. F. NUTTALL to COLONIAL OFFICE. (Received October 11, 1907.)
[See No. 69.]
3, Cranmer Road, Cambridge, October 10, 1907. REFERRING to the matter of the Studentship in Medical Entomology estab- lished on the basis of the grant from the Tropical Diseases Research Fund, I beg to inform you that I have appointed Mr. A. H. Lees, B.A. (King's College, Cambridge) for one year to the studentship, the appointment beginning with this October term. Owing to the fact that the grant was made toward the end of last term, and that the long vacation was about to begin, I thought it better to make the appointment date from the commencement of the academic year. Mr. Lees has been abroad and has done some preparatory work. He will report upon his work in due course.
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remain, &c.,
GEO. H. F. NUTTALL
THE LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE to COLONIAL
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OFFICE.
(Received November 11, 1907.)
[Answered by No. 73.]
B 10, Exchange Buildings, Liverpool, November 9, 1907. [Printed as No. 2 in Appendix VI. to [Cd. 3992], March, 1908,]
No. 62.
CEYLON.
THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received November 11, 1907.)
(No. 631.)
MY LORD,
The Queen's House, Colombo, Ceylon, October 23, 1907.
[Printed, except the portion in [ ] in Enclosure 2, as No. 4 in Appendix VII, tə [Cd. 3992], March, 1908.]
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