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No. 89.

WINDWARD ISLANDS (ST. VINCENT).

THE ACTING GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE.

(No. 122.)

(Received 4 October, 1909.) [Answered by No. 96.]

St. Lucia, 17 September, 1909. Forwarded. Jake it the Administrator has calculated £20 as being a sum to cover St. Vincent's share of a contribution of £100 distributed as suggested in the third paragraph of Sir R. 'Williams's despatch, No. 71 of the 27th of April last,* of which I supplied him with a copy.

SIR,

(No. 116.)

EDWARD J. CAMERON,

Acting Governor.

Government House, St. Vincent,

15 September, 1909.

WITH reference to the Secretary of State's circular despatch of the 11th March, 1909, and his despatch Miscellaneous of the 3rd June, 1909,† I have the honour to inform Your Excellency that at a meeting of the Legislative Council held on the 7th instant, the members unanimously passed a vote for £20 as a contribution to the Tropical Diseases Research Fund for the current financial year, and at the same time intimated their willingness to make a similar contribution annually for a period of five years altogether.

2. One of the unofficial members, who had visited the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, paid a tribute to the good and useful work done in that institu- tion, while the others were emphatic in their belief in the benefits which Tropical Colonies are deriving from the operation of the fund.

3. I now forward this vote for his Lordship's approval.

I have, &c.,

His Excellency

Edward J. Cameron, C.M.G.,

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C. GIDEON MURRAY,

Acting Governor of the Windward Islands, St. Lucia.

No. 90. CYPRUS.

Administrator.

THE SECRETARY OF STATE to THE HIGH COMMISSIONER. [Answered by No. 33 in Appendix I. to [Cd. 4999].]

Downing Street, 15 October, 1909.

(No. 164.) SIR,

I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch, No. 191, of the 22nd September, with regard to the action taken in consequence of the report of the Commission appointed to inquire into the working of the irrigation reservoirs in the Messaoria.

2. It does not appear, from your despatch, that any direct measures have been adopted to remove sources of malaria other than those due to irrigation works, as was suggested in my despatch, No. 73, of the 11th of June, § and I have to enquire whether any steps to this end have been, or are to be, taken.

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CREWE.

No. 91. LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE to COLONIAL OFFICE. (Received 1 November, 1909.)

[See No. 115.]

B 10, Exchange Buildings, Liverpool, 30th October, 1909. [Published as No. 2 in Appendix VI. to [Cd. 4999] February, 1910.]

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↑ Appendix VIII. to [Cd. 4999] and No. 45. No. 32 in Appendix I. to [Cd., 4999], February, 1910.

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No. 92.

PROFESSOR G. H. F. NUTTALL to COLONIAL OFFICE.

MY DEAR MR. READ,

(Received 1 November, 1909.)

[Answered by No. 114.]

3, Cranmer Road, Cambridge, October 30th, 1909. I ENCLOSE a copy of a letter which I am sending round to various wealthy persons in the hope of thereby securing financial support for the purpose of building a field laboratory in which we can prosecute researches such as we have been doing. I have already received £200 £100 from an anonymous benefactor the other from Lord Rothschild—and the day before yesterday Lord Strathcona promised to let me have £1,000 as soon as have secured £6,000 in support of the undertaking. I very much desire to go on with the work which we have begun on East Coast fever and on biliary fever in the horse, and I wonder if it would be possible for me to obtain a contribution towards the fund from the Tropical Diseases Research -Fund. I desire to undertake the work on biliary fever in the horse as soon as possible, material having been promised me through the courtesy of Sir John McFadyean. Perhaps you can help me in the matter?

SIR,

Enclosure in No. 92.

Yours, &c.,

G. H. F. NUTTALL.

3, Cranmer Road, Cambridge. Ir has been suggested to me that you might be interested in furthering the project of erecting a field laboratory in the vicinity of Cambridge, the laboratory to be devoted to the study of parasitology.

During the last two years, besides concerning ourselves with human diseases, we have devoted a great deal of attention to diseases of animals, more especially to those of domesticated animals: notably malignant jaundice in dogs, redwater in cattle, East Coast fever, heartwater, spirochaetosis in fowls, and grouse disease. All of these diseases, as you are no doubt aware, are of great economic importance. Our studies have thrown light upon the parasites which cause these diseases, and we have, in addition, devoted special attention to the study of ticks and other blood-sucking animals which serve to transmit the diseases in question. More recently we have discovered a remedy for malignant jaundice in dogs and redwater in cattle, and we very much desire to pursue further studies in this direction in the hope of finding a cure for some of the other diseases named.

Up to the present our researches have been carried out under most unsatisfac- tory conditions in temporary quarters within the Medical School Building at The accommodation is totally inadequate and the situation most Cambridge. unfavourable for the keeping of animals. The laboratory, consisting of two rooms, is overcrowded with workers, and animals have to be kept in the room where research goes on. In the basement of the building there is place for one large animal only (cow or horse) and dogs and similar animals have to be confined in most unsuitable quarters. In short, it is quite impossible to extend the useful work on which we are engaged without increasing the facilities at our disposal.

I write to ask if you will generously contribute toward a fund for the purpose of building, equipping, and maintaining a laboratory such as we need for the prosecution of our work. Being merely a field laboratory the expenses for building will be small galvanised iron buildings, lined with wood and partly with cement floors, will be quite sufficient. We desire to purchase, say, four acres of freehold land in the immediate vicinity of Cambridge upon which to erect the buildings. The plan is to erect a main laboratory building with room for 12 research workers, and, in addition thereto, sheds for animals, a slaughter house, crematory, small library, attendant's cottage, and bicycle shed. The estimated cost of these buildings would be about £2,500. In addition, the sum of £7,500 should be forthcoming partly as a capital sum (£6,000), the interest of which (£180 a year at 3 per cent.) would serve to help in the maintenance of the laboratory, and partly (say, £1,500) to be held in reserve for the purchase of apparatus or animals when special circum- stances arise.

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