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Officers should themselves take, at their own expense, such steps as might be necessary to enable them to keep abreast of the times. Under the circumstances, as it was clear that the motion if put to the vote would be lost, I did not consider it desirable to press it to a division.
3. I regret the attitude of the Court towards the motion, as I feel sure that if the arrangement sketched out in Your Lordship's despatch had been assented to, the Colony would have derived much benefit from it; but with the present constitution of the Combined Court it is, I fear, hopeless to expect that matters will be viewed from any broad standpoint.
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5. Dr. Hearsey points qut that the investigations respecting blackwater fever which the expedition proposes to undertake are of an extremely important nature, more especially those relating to the bio-chemical study of urine, a subject on which our present knowledge is very meagre.
I have, &c.,
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No. 79.
ALFRED SHARPE,
Commissioner
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
Reference :-
C.O.885
18 PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
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SIR,
I have, &c.,
F. M. HODGSON.
No. 77.
CEYLON.
THE SECRETARY OF STATE to THE GOVERNOR. (No. 188.)
Downing Street, April 19, 1907.
I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch, No. 127, of the 14th of March,* reporting that you have selected Dr. F. Grenier to proceed to England to study recent phases of research in tropical medicine.
2. As Dr. Grenier appears to have had little experience of research work, and has not been through the course at the London School of Tropical Medicine, he has been instructed as a first step to attend that course commencing on the 1st of May, his tuition fees being paid by the Crown Agents.
3. When he has completed the three months' course there, a better opportunity will be afforded of deciding what direction his research work should take.
I have, &c..
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No. 78.
BRITISH CENTRAL AFRICA PROTECTORATE.
THE COMMISSIONER to THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
(Received April 20, 1907.)
ELGIN.
[Copy to Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, April 25, 1907. L.F. See No. 79.]
(No. 44.)
MY LORD, Government Offices, Zomba, British Central Africa, March 6, 1907.
I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Your Lordship's despatch, No. 6, of the 11th of January, 1907,† transmitting to me, for my information, copy correspondence referring to the subject of expeditions to study sleeping sickness and blackwater fever.
BRITISH CENTRAL AFRICA PROTECTORATE.
THE LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE to COLONIAL
OFFICE.
(Received April 27, 1907.)
[Copy to Commissioner, British Central Africa Protectorate, No. 141, May 10, and to Commissioners, Eust Africa and Uganda Protectorates, Nos. 290 and 124, May 23, 1907. L.F.]
SIR,
[Acknowledged May 16 (14741),]
B 10, Exchange Buildings, Liverpool, April 26, 1907. Blackwater Fever Expedition, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.
HAVE to acknowledge, with many thanks, receipt of your letter, dated 25th April,* enclosing copy of despatch from the Commissioner for British Central Africa on the subject of the Sleeping Sickness and Blackwater Fever Expeditions of the School.
Owing to the unfortunate illness of Dr. Breial, the despatch of the Blackwater Fever Expedition has been delayed, but it is now practically settled that it will consist of Dr. Yorke and Dr. Barratt. As soon as they have completed certain experiments in connection with blackwater fever, on which they are at present engaged at the laboratories of the School, they will proceed to Africa. Due notice of the date of the departure of the expedition will be sent to His Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies.
Mr. Perria, who was originally to have joined the expedition, has not seen his way to accept the invitation of the School to be attached thereto, and the expedition will consist, as originally arranged, of two doctors only.
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No. 80.
I am, &c.,
A. H. MILNE.
THE SECRETARY OF STATE to THE GOVERNORS of the GAMBIA, SIERRA LEONE and the GOLD COAST.
[Copy to Governor, Southern Nigeria, April 27, 1907, No. 324. L.F.] [Answered by Nos, 90, 95 and 97, and 89 and 92.]
(Separate.)
He
SIR,
Downing Street, April 27, 1907.
2. The enclosure in Your Lordship's despatch have been read by Dr. Hearsey, and I have discussed with him the question as to whether, so far as this Protectorate is concerned, expeditions to study the two diseases could be profitably combined. is distinctly of opinion, and I concur in his views, that it would be an impossibility to combine the two expeditions in such a way as would enable the respective member's to be in constant communication.
3. The medical experts who will study sleeping sickness will probably be engaged on the Tanganyika-Nyasa Plateau, at the southern end of Lake Tanganyika, and on the shores of Lake Mweru; in all of which localities there are few Europeans, and opportunities of studying blackwater fever would hardly present themselves.
4. The blackwater fever expedition, on the other hand, will do best to select a base as far south as Blantyre, this being the place in which the largest number of Europeans reside, and where there is a good hospital to which fairly numerous cases are brought; moreover, owing to the proximity of Europeans working on the railway, blackwater fever cases are perhaps more frequent in Blantyre and the surrounding district than in any other part of British Central Africa.
• No. 75.
LF. transmitting copies of Nos. 212 and 213 in Miscellaneous No. 178.
I HAVE the honour to inform you that the Government of Southern Nigeria has suggested that a medical research institute for all the British Administrations
in West Africa should be established at Lagos.
2. It is proposed that the cost of maintenance should be restricted in the first instance to an annual expenditure of £1.500, contributed as follows :-
Southern Nigeria
Gold Coast Northern Nigeria
Sierra Leone Gambia
£600
400
200
200
100
£1,500
L.F. transmitting copy of No. 78.
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