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Your Directors will observe that the Secretary of State has promised to ask the Commissioner of the British Central Africa Protectorate to grant to the doctors engaged on the two expeditions the special licences for shooting purposes; &c., pro- vided for by the Game Regulations of the Protectorate. His Lordship presumes that your Directors will instruct their representatives, in North-Eastern and North; Western Rhodesia to give all proper facilities in this respect to the doctors employed on the Sleeping Sickness Expedition.
I am, &c.,
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the Superintending Medical Officer for selection under the scheme proposed by your Lordship, in the event of this Colony being able to afford the expenditure involved.
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I have, &c.,
J. A. SWETTENHAM,
Governor.
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SIR,
No. 73.
BRITISHI CENTRAL AFRICA PROTECTORATE:
THE SECRETARY OF STATE to THE COMMISSIONER. [Capy to Commissioners, East Africa and Uganda Protectorates, March 22, 1907, Nos. 158 and 75. L.F.]
(No. 101.)
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine,
Downing Street, March 21, 1907. Wrra reference to my despatch, No. 83, of the 8th of March,* I have the honour to transmit to you a copy of further correspondencet regarding the despatch of the expeditions now being organized by the Liver pool School of Tropical Medicine to study sleeping sickness and blackwater fever.
5th March.
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine,
11th March,
To Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, 20th Mareli.
To British South Africa Company; 20th March.
I request that, in accordance with the promise given to the School of Tropical Medicine, you will take steps to furnish the doctors employed on these expeditions with the special licences for shooting provision for the grant of which is made by Section 17 of the Game Regulations of the British Central Africa Protectorate.
I need hardly ask you to give, and to instruct your officers to give, to these expeditions, when engaged in the Protectorate, every facility, as I feel assured that you and they will be only too ready to assist them in every possible way.
(No. 127.) MY LORD,
No. 75.
CEYLON.
THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
(Received April 1, 1907.)
[Answered by No. 77.]
The Queen's House, Colombo, Ceylon, March 14, 1907. WITH reference to Your Lordship's Circular despatch of 23rd April, 1906,* on the subject of the study of tropical diseases, I have the honour to inform Your Lordship that, on the recommendation of the Principal Civil Medical Officer, I have selected Dr. F. Grenier, of the Ceylon Medical Service, to proceed to England to be instructed in research work connected with tropical diseases.
2. Dr. Grenier has accordingly been permitted to be absent from his duties for a period of one year on full pay.
3. He proposes to leave Colombo on 14th March, and has therefore been paid his salary up to the 13th instant, inclusive. I have to request that Your Lordship will be so good as to instruct the Crown Agents to pay Dr. Grenier his salary from 14th March to 31st December, 1907, at the rate of Rs. 4,320 a year, and at Rs. 4,680
a year from 1st January, 1908, less the usual deduction of 4 per cent. on account
of contribution to the Widows' and Orphans' Pension Fund. He is entitled to receive his salary at 1s: 101d. e rupec. I enclose the usual certificate.†
4. I shall also be glad if Your Lordship will cause the necessary instructions to be issued to the proper authorities in England in regard to Dr. Grenier's admission into the Schools of Tropical Medicine to prosecute his studies. He has been directed to report himself at the Colonial Office on arrival in England.
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I have, &c.,
ELGIN.
Í have, &c.,
HENRY A. BLAKE,
Governor, &c.
(No. 141.) MY LORD,
No. 74.
JAMAICA.
THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
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(Received March 28, 1907.)
[Acknowledged April 5, 1907.]
King's House, Jamaica, March 14, 1907. I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Your Lordship's despatch, Miscellaneous, dated the 8th ultimo, and to inform you, in reply, that after con- sulting the Privy Council, I have arrived at the conclusion that this Colony is not now in a position to incur the expense of detailing Government Medical Officers for the purpose of studying the latest phases of modern medical research.
2. I may mention, however, that I have just granted ordinary leave of absence to Dr. Allwood, Senior Resident Medical Officer of the Kingston Public Hospital, and that he proposes to utilise a portion of his time while on leave by taking at his own expense such a course of study as Your Lordship recommends. Dr. Allwood is→→ one of the two Government Medical Officers who would have been recommended by
* L.F. transmitting cupies of Nos. 65, 66, and 67. ↑ Nos. 68, 69, 71, and 72. ‡ No. 63.
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(No. 57.) MY LORD,
No. 76.
BRITISH GUIANA.
THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received April 2, 1907.)
Government House, Georgetown, Demerara, March 7, 1907. WITH reference to Mr. Cox's despatch, No. 319, of the 13th September last, I have the honour to transmit a copy of a motion which was introduced by the Government Secretary in Combined Court, with a view to giving effect to Your Lordship's circular despatch of the 23rd April, 1906,* on the subject of one of the medical officers of this Colony being detailed annually to study in England the latest phases of modern scientific research. The Sessional Papert of which I transmit six copies had previously been presented to the Court and distributed among members.
2. It was the expressed and unanimous opinion of the elective members that the motion was not one that should be acceded to, and that Government Medical
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1907.
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