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No. 78.

COLONIAL OFFICE to CROWN AGENTS.

Downing Street, 15 December, 1908. I AM directed by the Earl of Crewe to inform you that he approves of your paying to the London School of Tropical Medicine, at any time after the 1st of January, 1909, the sum of £50, being the amount of a grant made from the Tropical Diseases Research Fund to the School, to cover the cost of additional accommodation rendered necessary by the increase in the number of students attending the School.

I am, &c.,

H. W. JUST.

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- No. 80.

QUEENSLAND.

COLONIAL OFFICE to CROWN AGENTS.

Downing Street, 16 December, 1908.

I AM directed by the Earl of Crewe to inform you that he approves of your paying from the Tropical Diseases Research Fund the sum of £400 to the Agent- General for Queensland, being the amount of a grant from the Fund towards the establishment of an Australian School of Tropical Medicine, at Townsville, in the State of Queensland.

2. The payment should be made forthwith and the Agent-General for Queens- land has been requested to take steps for the transmission of the sum in question to the Government of Queensland.

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DEAR MR. KEITH,

CROWN AGENTS to COLONIAL OFFICE. (Received 17 December, 1908.)

Pay Department, Crown Agents, 16 December, 1908. Is reply to your letter of yesterday, about the Tropical Diseases Research Fund, the income for this year, made up of contributions, is as follows:-

Commonwealth of Australia

Gold Coast

Southern Nigeria

Southern Nigeria (Lagos)

Ceylon

Straits Settlements

Federated Malay States Hong Kong

Trinidad

Fiji

Sierra Leone

Gambia

British Guiana

Grenada

£200

200

200

150

100

100

100

100

100

100

100

100

100

50

250

500

200

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No. 81. QUEENSLAND.

I am, &c.,

H. W. JUST.

SIR,

COLONIAL OFFICE to THE AGENT-GENERAL.

Downing Street, 16 December, 1908.

I AM directed by the Earl of Crewe to inform you that at the request of the Bishop of North Queensland, and on the recommendation of the Advisory Com- mittee for the Tropical Diseases Research Fund, his Lordship has approved of the donation of £400 from the Fund towards the establishment of an Australian School of Tropical Medicine at Townsville, in Queensland.

2. Lord Crewe has instructed the Crown Agents for the Colonies to pay to you the sum of £400 forthwith, and I am to request that you will take steps to secure that a similar amount may be placed at the disposal of the governing body of the proposed school in Queensland.

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II. W. JUST.

Colonial Office

Rhodes Trustees

India Office

2. There has been no contribution from Mauritius and no donation from Dominica.

3. I take this opportunity of asking you whether the contributions mentioned in Colonial Office letter, 20390/1904, of the 26th of July, 1904,* expire with the payment made this year, or whether one more payment is due. Your letter docs not seem to be quite clear on this point. We have made five payments so far. The same applies to the Hong Kong contribution mentioned in Colonial Office letter, 20390/1904, of the 8th of September, 1904.†

4. Perhaps you will like to know that our authority for the contributions mentioned below has run out, and no further payments can be made without fresh authority:-

Fiji.

Southern Nigeria.

British Guiana. Trinidad.

India Office.

Yours, &c..

LOUIS ADAMS.

No. 82. AUSTRALIA.

THE SECRETARY OF STATE to THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL. (No. 426.)

MY LORD,

Downing Street, 16 December, 1908.

WITH reference to Lord Northcote's telegram of the 3rd of June,* I have the honour to request Your Excellency to inform your Ministers that the Advisory Committee for the Tropical Diseases Research Fund have had under their considera- tion an application from the Bishop of North Queensland for a grant towards the cost of founding an Australian Institute of Medical Research.

2. I enclose a copy of the lettert in which the Bishop made application for a grant.

3. The Advisory Committee have recommended, and I have had pleasure in approving, that a donation of £400 should be made from the Research Fund towards the expenses of the Institute.

4. Payment of the sum will be made from the Fund to the Agent-General for Queensland for transmission to the Government of Queensland, which, it is under- stood, will be officially represented on the Governing Board of the new Institute.

5. I may add that it gives me much pleasure that a School of Tropical Research in Australia should be thus established, and I have every wish for the prosperity of the Institute.

* No. 129 in Miscellaneous No. 170.

† No. 156 in Miscellaneous No. 170.

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I have, &c..

CREWE.

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No. 83. QUEENSLAND.

THE SECRETARY OF STATE to THE GOVERNOR.

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Downing Street, 16 December, 1908. WITH reference to Sir Arthur Morgan's despatch, No. 36, of the 29th of June. I have the honour to inform you that the Advisory Committee for the Tropical Diseases Research Fund have had under their consideration an applica- tion from the Bishop of North Queensland for a grant from the Fund towards the expense of founding an Australian Institute of Tropical Medicine.

2. I enclose a print of the letterf in which the Bishop made application for a grant.

3. The Advisory Committee have recommended, and I have had much pleasure in approving, a donation of £400 from the Research Fund towards the expenses of the School.

4. I have given instructions for the payment of this sum to the Agent-General for Queensland, by whom it will, no doubt, Le transmitted to your Government.

5. I may add that it gives me much pleasure that a school of Tropical Research in Australia should be thus established, and I have every wish for the prosperity of the Institute. I trust that it may be found possible from time to time to arrange that reports of the work done may be transmitted to this Office, in order that they may be included in the Annual Reports of the Tropical Diseases Research Fund.

I have, &c..

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officials and troops, much work against malaria, worth reporting at greater length, ould have been done, accurate returns might have been made, thousands of native children could have been examined (as one medical officer can examine one hundred hildren in an hour), and at least reliable figures for the troops could have been returned. The Advisory Committee states that information cannot be given as to the administration of quinine to school children in Northern Nigeria as there are no schools there; but obviously the drug could be administered largely amongst the children whether they are school children or not; and information on this point could easily have been returned.

3. I am glad also to be able to concur in the view that members of the Medical Department of the respective Colonies often work short-handed and under great difficulties. On the other hand, I feel that a great deal too much may be made of this occasional occurrence. In my experience, though there may be a few very hard-worked medical officers, yet the majority of them have ample leisure and opportunities to carry out such sanitation duties as I refer to. Moreover, there appears to be little reason for supposing that the medical officers of the Colonies which have sent in no sufficient malaria reports are at all more hard-worked than those which have sent in good ones.

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4. With regard to paragraph 4 of your letter, I must also beg respectfully to concur with the Advisory Committee on that point that repeated demands for statistical information involve considerable labour; but I feel personally inclined to question whether reasonable demands in this direction are not still justifiable. Almost in every branch of administration, officers are asked to report upon what they are doing; especially as experience proves that if they are not called upon so to report, they may end in doing little. Further, it may be remarked that the Secre- tary of State did not ask only for statistical information but for information as to work done; and I suppose that a day's labour would suffice any Principal Medical Officer to compile any such report if he has really done anything, and has taken care to keep his information at hand.

5. In conclusion, I learn with the greatest pleasure the fact mentioned in the concluding paragraph of your letter, namely, that the Advisory Committee have recommended that the importance of the measures referred to should be urged on all medical officers appointed to tropical Colonies; and am sure that as time elapses more and more work will be done in this line. My reason for writing my letter to Colonel Seely was simply to suggest such action as the Advisory Committee has now taken.

I am,

&c., RONALD ROSS.

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No. 84.

PROFESSOR R. ROSS to COLONIAL OFFICE.

(Received 24 December, 1908.)

Johnston Tropical Laboratory, University of Liverpool,

23rd December, 1908.

SIR,

I BEG to acknowledge with thanks your letter, No. 26897, of the 11th Decem- ber, 1905, containing the remarks of the Advisory Committee for the Tropical Discases Research Fund on my letter to Colonel Seely of the 22nd July last; and I am much obliged to the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for communicat- ing these remarks to me.

9 With regard to paragraph 3 of your letter, I am glad to acknowledge that I have been insufficiently informed regarding the existence of Government schools and public hospitals in Northern Nigeria. I have certainly not been there, and, therefore, cannot pretend to local knowledge of that Protectorate. But the exist ence of Government schools and dispensaries is not really vital to the point which I raised in connection with that territory, namely, that the information regarding the prevention of malaria in it furnished to the Secretary of State and published by the Advisory Committee in its report for last year was quite insufficient. The reports from the various Colonics were asked for expressly to give information on such points to all those who did not possess local experience of what is being done- in which I presume that I must include the Secretary of State himself, and, indeed, the vast majority of those who read these reports. I complained in my letter to Colonel Seely that the whole of this important matter had been dismissed in a single sentence, namely, "That all practical means for the eradication of malaria are taken as part of the routine sanitary work," and I thought this to be so obviously inadequate as to suggest that little real work was being done in that country. I still remain of opinion that the authorities of Northern Nigeria could, without much trouble, have easily reported at greater length if they really had anything to report. For instance, with such a considerable body as forty medical officers in charge of Government

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