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to the Under-Secretary of the Home Secretary's Department with a view of having the necessary action taken in the matter:—
"Re your telegram of 4th June re Townsville Tropical Medical School annual grant of £250 approved make available; think Knox's statement generally correct."
I have, &c.,
His Excellency
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The Governor of Queensland, Brisbane.
No. 44.
A. H. BARLOW,
Acting Chief Secretary.
COLONIAL OFFICE to PROFESSOR R. ROSS.
SIR,
Downing Street, 14 August, 1908. I AM directed by the Secretary of State for the Colonies to acknowledge the receipt of your letter to Colonel Seely of the 22nd ultimo, respecting the returns regarding malaria recently published by the Advisory Committee of the Tropical Diseases Research Fund, and to inform you that your comments will be brought before the Advisory Committee with a request that they may be carefully considered.
I am,
&c.,
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H. BERTRAM COX.
No. 45.
EAST AFRICA PROTECTORATE.
EXTRACT FROM THE PRINCIPAL MEDICAL OFFICER'S REPORT FOR 1907.
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(Received in Colonial Office August 17, 1908.) [Published in Appendix I, to [Cd. 4476], March, 1909.]
No. 46.
MINUTES OF MEETING OF SUB-COMMITTEE OF THE TROPICAL DISEASES RESEARCH FUND ADVISORY COMMITTEE, HELD ON THE 6TH OCTOBER, 1908.
PRESENT:
Sir PATRICK MANSON (in the Chair).
Sir T. BARLOW.
Surgeon-General A. M. BRANFOOT.
Dr. J. ROSE BRADFORD.
Mr. KEITH (Secretary).
Dr. GRAHAM also attended.
Dr. Graham raised the question whether it was intended that the laboratory was to be of the nature of a clinical and medico-legal laboratory, or one devoted to purely research work.
Ile stated that the Principal Medical Officer of the Gold Coast evidently hoped that the laboratory would be available for ordinary clinical work and for medico- legal work, and he mentioned that the Governor of the Gold Coast had drawn his attention to the importance of there being available in West Africa some laboratory where examinations could be made in cases of suspected poisoning.
Sir Patrick Manson proposed, and it was agreed, that the work of the labora- tory should be mainly that of research, but that the Director should be available
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for consultation on clinical laboratory work, though not for medico-legal work. The latter especially lay outside his proper functions and would interfere with the carrying out of the research work for which more especially his post was created.
2. Dr. Graham then stated that he was anxious to take a course of bacterio- logy, as he was not familiar with modern methods in that science. This was approved. He was also anxious while in England to work over his collection of mosquitoes and biting flies in consultation with Professor Theobald, and this pro- posal also was approved. Dr. Graham also undertook to consult the authorities of the London Tropical School as to helminthology and protozoology.
When out in Southern Nigeria, Dr. Graham proposed to continue certain inves- tigations into blackwater fever on which he had already been engaged while on the Gold Coast, and also on guinea worm, which in places affected over 90 per cent. of the natives, and to draw up an endemic index.
He was also anxious to complete his collection of mosquitoes, and he mentioned that among other things he desired to ascertain whether the anopheles could live and breed in slightly salt water. The Sub-Committee considered that these pro- posals would give him ample work to do for his first tour of service.
3. It was agreed that Dr. Graham should communicate with any men he thought likely, and with the least possible delay recommend an officer for the post of Assistant.
4. Dr. Graham raised the question whether he was to be under the Principal Medical Officer of Southern Nigeria, or whether he was to be regarded as sub- ordinate only to the Governor.
The Sub-Committee recommended that he should be directly subordinate to the Governor.
5. Dr. Graham mentioned that he had made a report on the tsetse flies of Ashanti, which he was very anxious to have published without delay. The Sub- Committee, considering the urgency of the question and the desirability of making available the information which that report was expected to contain, suggested that he should be authorised to send his report direct to the Under-Secretary of State, and not through the Principal Medical Officer of the Gold Coast. The Sub-Committee suggested that the Sleeping Sickness Bureau might consider whether the report or a summary thereof could be published.
Dr. Graham mentioned that he believed there was a tsetse fly region some 12 miles out of Accra, through which it would be desirable that the railway should not pass.
6. The Sub-Committee recommended that Dr. Graham should be deemed to begin work on the 6th of October.
7. Dr. Graham mentioned that he was anxious to have published a collection of photographs of biting flies which he had prepared, so that it might be circulated to medical officers and district commissioners in West Africa, who could then note the presence or absence in their districts of the flies in question and further add to the collection. The Sub-Committee were of the opinion that this would be useful, but they made no definite recommendation on the subject, but Dr. Graham was advised to add some letterpress to the collection of photographs which he had already made, and which were shown to the members of the Sub-Committee, who considered that it was a most valuable collection and should, if possible, be published.
SIR,
No. 47.
FEDERATED MALAY STATES.
PROPOSED BERI-BERI INVESTIGATION IN TAIPING GAOL.
(Laid before the Advisory Committee on 13 January, 1909.)
Institute for Medical Research, Kuala Lumpur,
Federated Malay States, 17 October, 1908.
IN continuation of my letter, No. 70/08, I have the honour to submit the following details of the investigation which I wish to carry out in Taiping Gaol.
1. I propose to examine those prisoners who still have fifteen months or more
of their sentence to serve, and to exclude those showing any signs of beri-beri as well as any who are known to be refractory prisoners.
2. The selected prisoners will, I hope, number 400 or thereabouts. They
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