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2. I am to request that Sir E. Grey will cause Dr. Balfour to be apprised by telegraph of this decision, and that, either by telegraph or by despatch, it may be fully explained that the decision has been taken on the grounds above stated.
I am, &c.,
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No. 38.
COLONIAL OFFICE to DR. A. G. BAGSHAWE.
C. P. LUCAS.
Downing Street, 18 May, 1908.
I AM directed by the Earl of Crewe to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 15th instant, and to inform you that you have now been finally selected for the temporary appointment of Director of the Sleeping Sickness Bureau on the conditions specified in the letter from this Department of the 14tlf instant.†
2. With reference to the last paragraph of your letter under reply, I am to state that, in the event of your being re-absorbed in the medical establishment of the Uganda Protectorate at the expiration of the period of one year for which you will now be seconded, with effect from the 1st of June next, you will be allowed to retain your seniority in that Department.
3. If you are seconded for further service in the appointment of Director of the Sleeping Sickness Bureau, the question of your seniority in the Uganda Medical Staff must be reconsidered.
4. You will be required to attend the next meeting of the Committee of Management of the Bureau, notice of which will be sent to you in due course.
No. 39.
I am, &c.,
C. P. LUCAS.
MINUTES OF MEETING OF THE COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT—
SLEEPING SICKNESS BUREAU.
THIRD MEETING, 26 May, 1908, at 4.30 p.m.
PRESENT:
Sir West Ridgeway (in the Chair),
Sir Patrick Manson,
Sir Rubert Boyce,
Sir Charles Lucas,
Colonel D. Bruce,
Dr. Rose Bradford, and
Mr. Popham Lobb (Secretary).
Dr. A. G. Bagshawe, Director of the Bureau, also attended the meeting.
1. The minutest of the previous meeting were passed.
2. Copies of correspondence§ with the Foreign Office relative to the co-opera- tion of the Soudan Government in the study of sleeping sickness were circulated to members of the Committee before the meeting.
3. The Committee approved the appointment of Dr. A. G. Bagshawe as Director
of the Bureau, as Dr. Balfour, of the Wellcome Laboratory at Khartoum, was unable to accept the post.
Dr. Bagshawe will hold the appointment at a salary of £500 per annum for 12 months from the 1st of June, 1908, during which period he will be seconded from the Uganda Medical Staff.
On the completion of this term the question of his further employment, subject to six months' notice, will be considered by the Committee.
A copy of the letter of appointment will be circulated to the Committee in due course.
4. With regard to the secretarial duties in connection with the work of the Committee, it was proposed by Sir C. Lucas and seconded by Sir R. Boyce that the
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member of the Colonial Office appointed to discharge them and the Director of the Bureau should act as joint secretaries, the Director dealing with technical matters.
The motion was agreed to unanimously.
5. The Committee considered the question of the relationship of the Sleeping Sickness Bureau and the Advisory Committee of the Tropical Diseases Research Fund, and agreed that the Bureau should deal with all sleeping sickness matters and that it should communicate to the Tropical Diseases Committee such informa- tion and papers on the subject as might be necessary.
6. The Royal Society reported that they were prepared to extend to the Bureau the same facilities (accommodation and clerical assistance) as they had agreed to give to the International Bureau had it been established.
The Director was accordingly requested to consult with the Secretaries of the Society as to the arrangements which will be necessary, and to submit his sugges- tions at the next meeting of the Committee.
7. Dr. Bagshawe will also make recommendations regarding the translation work of the Bureau, in connection with which Dr. Breinl has been good enough to offer his services, the desirability of employing a press-cutting agency to collect information and other matters.
8. There were laid before the Committee copies of a despatch* from the Governor of Uganda advocating the periodical publication of information regarding sleeping sickness. This will be the main function of the Bureau.
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The Committee also considered a report† from the Acting Consul at Boma on the discovery in the Congo Free State of a supposed cure for Sleeping Sickness, and the Foreign Office will be requested to keep the Colonial Office informed as to the results achieved.
10. A report has been received from Dr. Breinl, Director of the Runcorn Research Laboratories of the Liverpool Tropical School, on the Governor of Uganda's despatch of the 23rd of November, 1906,§ relative to sleeping sickness in the Protectorate.
A copy has been sent to Colonel Bruce and the report will be communicated to the Committee of the Tropical Diseases Research Fund.
11. The next meeting of the Committee was fixed for the 11th of June at 4.30 p.m.
R. POPHAM LOBB,
Colonial Office,
26 May, 1908.
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No. 40.
COLONIAL OFFICE to THE ROYAL SOCIETY.
Secretary.
Downing Street, 29 May, 1908.
I AM directed by the Earl of Crewe to acknowledge the receipt of Sir Archi- bald Geikie's letters, dated respectively the 23rd of April last and the 1st instant,|| relative to the co-operation of the Royal Society in the arrangements for the estab lishment of the National Sleeping Sickness Bureau.
2. Lord Crewe has learnt with pleasure that it is the intention of the Royal Society to extend to the Bureau the same facilities as it was originally proposed to afford to the International Bureau, and I am to request that you will convey to the President and Council of the Society an expression of his Lordship's appreciation of this valuable assistance.
3. Lord Crewe understands from the Committee of Management that Dr. A. G. Bagshawe, of the Medical Department of the Uganda Protectorate, has been selected for appointment as Director of the Bureau for one year in the first instance, and that Dr. Bagshawe has been instructed to place himself in communication with you in regard to the arrangements to be made for carrying on the work of the Bureau.
1. You will observe from the 16th paragraph of the letter from this Depart- ment to the Treasury of the 3rd of April last, a copy of which is enclosed for confi dential information, that the sum of £150 per annum has been provided for clerical assistance, and Dr. Bagshawe has been requested to submit to the Committee of No. 100 in Miscellaneous No. 178.
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Management in due course the detailed proposals as to the allocation of this amount after consultation with yourself.
I am, &c.,
DEAR MR. HARRISON,
No. 41.
SIR C. P. LUCAS to MR. R. HARRISON.
[Answered by No. 42.]
C. P. LUCAS.
Downing Street, 2 June, 1908. THE result of our talk about the Sleeping Sickness Bureau and Dr. Bagshawe's requirements is as follows:-
(i) Accommodation.-I understand that the Royal Society can provide a room, but without adequate furniture, and that the Society cannot undertake to provide such furniture as the Bureau will require. I propose, therefore, that you if you will be good enough to do so-shall provide Dr. Bagshawe with what you and he consider to be reasonable in the matter of furniture and equipment, and send in the bill to the Secretary of the Managing Committee at this Office. Such furniture as may be bought will, of course, remain the property of the Bureau.
(ii.) I would ask you also in the same way to supply whatever stationery may be wanted to be headed, as we agreed, "Sleeping Sickness Bureau, Royal Society, Burlington House," and to send in the bill as before.
(iii) Similarly, if you can arrange it, it would seem advisable that the postage should be paid by and refunded to the Royal Society and, finally,
(iv.) For the time being, if you can allot to Dr. Bagshawe such typing and clerical assistance as may be required, in three months' time we might refund what- ever has been the cost to the Society and either continue the system or make other arrangements.
Will you kindly show this to Dr. Bagshawe and ask him if it will meet his convenience, and, if so, act upon it?
Yours, &c.,
C. P. LUCAS.
P.S. The question of printing must come up
later.
C. P. L.
DEAR SIR CHARLES LUCAS,
No. 42.
MR. R. HARRISON to SIR C. P. LUCAS.
Burlington House, London, W.,
4 June, 1908. REPLYING to your letter of the 2nd instant,* I have seen Dr. Bagshawe and he quite concurs in the arrangements proposed in your letter for meeting pro- visionally the requirements of the Sleeping Sickness Bureau. He will, therefore, look out for such furniture as he deems absolutely necessary, and I will then order it, as I will also the stationery he requires.
I have made arrangements for dealing with the postage of the Bureau, of which account shall be kept; and have also arranged for providing Dr. Bagshawe with such typing and clerical assistance as he may require for the time being. I can only add that I shall be at all times ready to do everything in my power to facilitate Dr. Bagshawe's work.
Sir Charles Lucas, K.C.M.G., C.B.
Believe me,
ROBT. HARRISON.
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No. 43.
21888 MINUTES OF MEETING OF MANAGING COMMITTEE OF SLEEPING SICKNESS BUREAU, HELD 11TH JUNE, AT 3.30 P.M.
AGENDA.
1. To approve the minutes* of the last meetings (copies annexed).
2. To receive correspondencef between Sir C. Lucas and Mr. Harrison as to the accommodation of, and clerical assistance for, the Director (copies annexed).
3. To receive certain papers on sleeping sickness in Northern Nigeria.
PRESENT:
Sir West Ridgeway (in the Chair).
Sir R. Boyce.
Dr. Rose Bradford.
Colonel Bruce.
Sir C. Lucas.
Sir P. Manson.
Mr. Keith (for Secretary).
Dr. Bagshawe also attended.
1. The minutes of the last meetings were read and approved.
2. The correspondence between Sir C. Lucas and Mr. Harrison was read and discussed. Dr. Bagshawe explained that he was not yet in a position to submit At present he was recommendations on the various matters needing settlement. engaged partly in dealing with the correspondence on the matter, partly in study among the periodicals and other literature of the question. He would require both clerical help (the Royal Society not being able to afford much), and help in transla- tions. Dr. Breinl had offered to translate free of cost, but recourse might be neces- sary to other aid also. As regards clerical assistance he had an offer of such help at £3 3s. a month.
Sir P. Manson laid stress on the need of something being at once published and suggested a short summary of current work to be issued in a month's time. Dr. Rose Bradford, Colonel Bruce, and Sir Rubert Boyce were more anxious for the appear- ance, say in October, of a careful summary up to date of the subject.
Finally, Sir C. Lucas proposed, and it was accepted, that another meeting should be held on the 17th July at 3 p.m., at which Dr. Bagshawe should present his recommendations for the year as to:-
(a) Clerical assistance.
(6) Translation.
(c) Research.
(d) Furniture and other equipment.
For the period to that date £25 would be put at his disposal for clerical aid and translation, while Sir C. Lucas undertook to see that maps and the necessary books should be provided. It was also agreed that the services of a press cutting agency should be utilised as an experiment, and that Sir C. Lucas should be authorised to sanction such other small items of expenditure as might seem to be necessary.
After discussion it was agreed that as soon as any report was ready for publi- cation steps should be taken to obtain estimates of the cost both from the printers to the Royal Society and from the Stationery Office printers.
It was also agreed that all payments should be countersigned by the Colonial Office member of the Committee, Sir W. Ridgeway expressing concurrence in this proposal.
It was agreed that Dr. Bagshawe's expenses on a recent journey to Liverpool
on the business of the Bureau should be refunded.
Sir R. Boyce recommended Dr. Bagshawe to inspect the card index system adopted by Messrs. Burroughs and Wellcome in their business as an indication of the sort of index which should be kept for the purposes of the Bureau.
3. The last item of the Agenda could not be discussed, for lack of time.
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