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the sunumer and autumn of 1907 were very generally filled. at times the cases being so numerous that some had to be accommodated in the general wards of the hospital. There was a temporary falling off in the number of patients during the autumn of 1907, but since then there has been a gradual increase and it is hoped that during the present session there may be plenty of clinical material although in the spring months there is generally less malaria than at other times of the year. Clinical instruction has up to the present been given twice weekly on one afternoon by Major Ross and on another by one of the physicians of the hospital, who have taken duty in rotation for four months at a time. On one other afternoon clinical patho- logy is studied in the ward and its adjacent laboratories under the lecturer on that subject. Recently the Committee of the hospital have arranged for Professor Ronald Ross to take charge of the ward and the clinical teaching will in future be mainly in his hands.
Through the kindness of Sir Alfred Jones steps are about to be taken to notify the West Coast ports and neighbouring towns that special attention is given to tropical diseases in this ward-connected with the School, and it is hoped that this measure may cause the number to exceed any heretofore reached. The variety of the cases has always been great. The report for the year ending December 31st, 1906, recorded that 120 cases of tropical diseases had been under treatment during the year, including patients suffering from malaria, beri-beri, dysentery, tropical abscess, sprue, ankylostomiasis, leprosy, scorbutus, and Malta fever; and in other years there have been from time to time examples of blackwater fever, trypanoso- miasis, kala-azar, ainhum, guinea-worm, craw-craw, chiggers, and various forms of filariasis.
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No. 8.
THE LONDON SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE to COLONIAL OFFICE. (Received 13 March, 1908.)
SIR,
[Answered by No. 8.]
Dreadnought Hospital, Greenwich. S.E., 11 March, 1908. IN further reference to your letter of the 6th of June last, No. 37292/1906,*
I have the honour to request payment of £333 6s. 8d., being one-third of the sum of £1,000, granted for the teaching of entomology in the London School of Tropical
Medicine.
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No. 7.
MALTA.
I am, &c.,
P. MICHELLI,
Secretary.
THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received March 14, 1908.)
The Palace, Valletta, March 9, 1908.
[Published as No. 10 in Appendix VII. to [Cd. 4476], March, 1909.]
(No. 49.)
No. 3.
HONG KONG.
THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received 7 March, 1908.)
Government House, Hong Kong, 7 February, 1908. [Published as No. 6 in Appendix VII. to [Cd. 4476], March, 1909.]
(No. 29.)
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No. 8.
COLONIAL OFFICE to THE LONDON SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE.
Downing Street, 17 March, 1908.
SIB,
In reply to your letter of the 11th of March,t I am directed by the Earl of Elgin to inform you that the Crown Agents for the Colonies have been instructed to pay to the London School of Tropical Medicine the sum of £333 6s. 8d. in respect of the grant from the Tropical Diseases Research Fund for the teaching of entomology.
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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
Reference :-
C.O.885
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ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC-
No. 4.
GOLD COAST.
THE ACTING GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received 7 March, 1908.)
(No. 70.)
Government House, Accra, 18 February, 1908.
[Published as No. 5 in Appendix VII. to [Cd. 4476], March, 1909.]
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(No. 88.)
No. 5.
CEYLON.
THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received March 7, 1908.)
The Queen's Cottage, Nuwara Eliya,
Ceylon, February 18, 1908.
[Published as No. 1 in Appendix VII. to [Cd. 4476], March, 1909.]
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No. 9.
I am, &c.,
H. BERTRAM COX.
THE LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE to COLONIAL
SIR,
OFFICE.
(Received 19 March, 1908.)
B 10, Exchange Buildings, Liverpool, 18 March, 1908. Extra Grant to the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.
WITH further reference to your letter of 5th December last, and to the fourth paragraph thereof, in which it is stated that, in connection with the further grant of £500 a year, the Tropical Diseases Advisory Committee wish to be informed of the nature of the work which the School proposes to carry on, I am directed to reply as follows:-
The extra grant to be devoted to sleeping sickness research will be utilised for the following purposes, viz.:-
(1) To assist in defraying the expenses of the Sleeping Sickness Expedition
of the School at present in Rhodesia.
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No. 37 in Miscellaneous No. 202. ↑ No. 6.
No. 73 in Miscellaneous No. 202.
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