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No. 102.

AGENDA FOR THE MEETING OF THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE OF THE TROPICAL DISEASES RESEARCH FUND, TO BE HELD AT THE COLONIAL OFFICE ON 24TH NOVEMBER, 1909, at 4 P.M.

of June.

I. To approve the minutes* of the meeting of the Committee held on the 8th II. To receive reportst from the Royal Society, the London and Liverpool Schools of Tropical Medicine, and from Professor Minchin and Professor Nuttall.

III. To receive reports of work done by the bacteriologists in Ceylon and British Guiana.

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ROUGH ESTIMATE of Possible Subscriptions to the Proposed Malaria Bulletin.

West Indies

Mauritius and Seychelles and Islands

South Africa

West African Colonies

Central African Colonies

Egypt and Soudan

Australia and Islands

War Office

Foreign Office

38368

No of copies.

(say)

70

.../

30

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30

>

30

20

"

5

"7

15

30

*

10

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Indian stations, towns, districts

200

Indian stations (British troops)

(actual number)

104

Indian stations (Native troops)

163

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Indian, Jaila

240

Plantations, factories, mines' companies, private and foreign

subscribers

(say)

200

Advertisements

1,147 100

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No. 99.

ABSTRACT OF WORK ON THE EXPERIMENTAL TREATMENT OF TRYPANOSOMIASIS CARRIED OUT DURING THE PRESENT YEAR UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF A SUB-COMMITTEE OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY.

37403

[Published as Appendix II. to [Cd. 4999], February, 1910.]

No. 100. BRITISH GUIANA.

THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE.

(Received 15 November, 1909.)

Government House, Georgetown, Demerara, 30 October, 1909.

[Published as No. 4 in Appendix VII. to [Cd. 4999], February, 1910.]

(No. 353.)

37402

No. 101. BRITISH GUIANA.

EXTRACT FROM THE REPORT OF THE SURGEON-GENERAL FOR THE YEAR 1908-9.

(Received in Colonial Office, 15 November, 1909.) MALARIAL FEVER AND ANTI-MALARIAL Measures.

[Paragraphs 97 to 101, and 103 published as No. 22 in Appendix I. to [Cd. 4999], February, 1910.]

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IV. To receive despatches§ from Barbados and Trinidad commenting on the Committee's last Report, and to consider a Memorandum from Perak on the use of parboiled rice for beri-beri patients.

V. To consider a letter from Professor Nuttall, asking for a contribution towards the cost of erecting a field laboratory near Cambridge.

VI. To receive a statement of the financial position of the Fund; to consider what grants shall be made for 1910 to the University of London, the London and Liverpool Schools of Tropical Medicine, and to Professor Nuttall; and, further, to what research purposes the balance (or a portion of it) standing to the credit of the Fund after the payment of such grants shall be devoted.

VII. To consider the question of obtaining periodic reports as to work done

in the Bacteriological Laboratory recently established in St. Lucia.

VIII. To consider, in connexion with the appointment of Major Ross to be a member of the Committee, what steps should be taken to deal with questions relating

to malaria. A Memorandum** by Major Ross on the subject is attached.

IX. To receive the replies which have been sent to Lord Crewe's Circular Despatch of the 31st of March on the subject of malaria.

X. To receive reports as to the anti-malarial measures taken in the tropical Colonies.

XI. To consider the question of the preparation of the Annual Report of the Committee for 1909.

XII. Any other business.

MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS.

Present:

Sir Thomas Holderness (in the Chair).

Sir Thomas Barlow.

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir R. Charles.

Dr. Rose Bradford.

Sir Charles Lucas.

Sir Patrick Manson.

Mr. Read.

Major Ross.

Mr. Parkinson (Acting Secretary).

1. The minutes of the first ordinary meeting of the 8th of June were approved. It was moved by Sir Charles Lucas and seconded by Dr. Rose Bradford that the Committee wished to place on their minutes their expression of deep regret at the death of their colleague, Sir Ralph Moor, who always co-operated most heartily and efficiently with them in their work.

It

2. No. 8 of the Agenda. Major Ross outlined his scheme for a proposed Malaria Bureau to become eventually part of the Tropical Diseases Bureau. was, however, thought advisable to postpone to the next meeting the consideration of this proposal, in order that the Committee might be in a position to discuss it without prejudice to the larger scheme for a proposed Tropical Diseases Bureau.

3. No. 6 of the Agenda. Mr. Read explained that the normal income of the Committee was about £3,600; and that as the result of accumulated balances for the last five years, there was a sum of £3,500 available over and above the ordinary

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† Appendix II., Nos. 2 in Appendices V. and VI.. and Appendices 1II, and IV,, to [Cd, 4999], Nos. 5 and 2 in Appendix VII. to [Cd. 4999]. No. 1 in Appendix VII. to [Cd. 4999], and No. 59.

| No. 9 in Appendix VII. to [Cd. 4999].

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¶ No. 93.

** No. 98.