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4. Such agreement could perhaps be best encouraged and attained by the establishment of a "Bureau of Tropical Diseases and Hygiene," which might be International or Imperial, and which might be under the management of a Director or Secretary appointed by the Colonial Office, or might be controlled by some central and independent scientific body, such as the Royal Society or the Advisory Com- mittee of the Tropical Diseases Research Fund.
5. I do not think it would be wise to depend for information on any single school or other local body. The only other alternative to the appointment of a central control seems to me to be that the Colonial Office should put us in communi- cation with all the schools and other bodies from whom we should desire informa- tion, and this would appear to be a scarcely practicable course.
6. I think the Medical Department should, in the meantime, take such lead- ing journals as those of the Liverpool and London Schools, the Royal Army Medical Corps Journal, the Journal of Hygiene, and that of the Royal Institute of Public Health.
7. The editors of these journals would generally know some considerable time in advance what articles and papers of importance they will publish on certain dates, and could perhaps be induced by the Secretary of State to communicate to us whenever possible a forecast of the contents of their editions. We could then order extra copies for circulation when we consider it necessary; and, if it were expedient to wire for them, probably a number and a code word would be all that would be
necessary.
A. D. P. HODGES,
Senior Medical Officer, Uganda.
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Enclosure in No. 35.
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As regards the duties of the Director, the Committee endorsed the view that these should consist, in the first place, in the collection from English and foreign sources of all available information relating not only to trypanosomiasis itself, but also to cognate subjects.
Stress was laid upon the importance of the Director being well acquainted with German and Erench, in view of the large amount of information published every year in these languages, and of the necessity for direct correspondence with foreign investigators.
The communication to the various Governments concerned of this information. properly collated and edited, would be the next step; and the Director would also be required to furnish the Committee with regular reports on the work of the Bureau and the latest results of current research.
He would be responsible for preparing and keeping up to date a map of the whole of tropical Africa, showing the distribution of the disease and of the different species of blood-sucking insects which are suspected of conveying it.
The Director will be required to devote his whole time to these duties, but will be expected to take an interest in the scientific investigation of matters con nected with the discase, as far as may be compatible with the proper conduct of the work of the Bureau.
These duties will necessarily involve frequent and informal communication between the Director and foreign scientists. All official correspondence, however, will be conducted only after previous reference to the Committee.
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No. 35.
COLONIAL OFFICE to DR. A. G. BAGSHAWE.
[Answered by No. 36.]
SIR,
Downing Street, 14 May, 1908. WITH reference to the letter from this Department of the 7th_instant,* I am directed by the Earl of Crewe to inform you that, in accordance with the wishes of the Committee of Management of the Sleeping Sickness Bureau, he has approved of your being seconded for one year, as from the 1st of June next, from the service of the Uganda Government in order that you may take up the appointment of Director of the Burcau, with salary at the rate of £500 per annum.
2. The Director's whole time will be at the disposal of the Committee of Management, and the duties of the appointment will consist mainly in the collection and dissemination of information, as set out in the enclosed extract from a minute of the Committee in question.
3. The total funds available are £1,200 a year, out of which the salary of the Director will be paid.
4. He will take his instructions solely from the Committee of Management, which is responsible to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.
The Chairman of the Committee is Sir J. West Ridgeway, and it comprises representatives of the Foreign Office, the Colonial Office, the Royal Society, Royal Army Medical Corps, and the London and Liverpool Schools of Tropical Medicine. 5. The work of the Director will be conducted entirely in England, and reasonable holidays will be allowed.
6. At the expiration of the term of one year, for which you will seconded, it will be considered whether you should be offered this appointment for a further period, subject to six months' notice in any case.
7. The appointment is not pensionable, but you will retain such pension rights
as have accrued to you in respect of your service in Uganda.
8. I am to request that you will inform me without delay whether you are desirous of accepting this appointment on the conditions above mentioned."
I am, &c.,
C. P. LUCAS.
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SIR,
No. 36.
DR. A. G. BAGSHAWE to COLONIAL OFFICE. (Received 15 May, 1908.)
[Answered by No. 38.]
Royal Societies Club, St. James's Street, S.W., 15 May, 1908.
In reply to the letter* of Sir C. P. Lucas received this morning, I have the honour to state that I am willing to accept the office of Director of the Sleeping Sickness Bureau on the terms and conditions therein set down.
I note that, in the event of my returning to Uganda at the end of one year.
I lose that period of pensionable service.
I hope I may assume that I should not lose seniority to the same degree.
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SIR,
No. 37.
I have, &c.,
ARTHUR G. BAGSHAWE.
COLONIAL OFFICE to FOREIGN OFFICE.
Downing Street, 15 May, 1908.
I AM directed by the Earl of Crewe to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 5th instant, and to state, for the information of Secretary Sir E. Grey, that as it was understood that Dr. Andrew Balfour would in any case be unable to leave his present post at Khartoum for some considerable time, and also that the salary of £500 per annum attached to the appointment of Director of the Sleeping Sickness Bureau would hardly be adequate to his services, his Lordship, in accord- ance with the wishes of the Committee of Management of the Bureau, has autho- rised other arrangements for filling this post and the appointment has been offered to and accepted by Dr. A. G. Bagshawe, of the Uganda Medical Service.
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