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income. The following grants for 1910 from the Committee's normal income were approved :-

University of London, £750.

London School of Tropical Medicine, £1,333,6s. 8d. Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, £1,000.

Professor Nuttall, £200.

With reference to expending the surplus funds, Sir Patrick Manson and Major Ross..outlined possible research-schemes. Sir P. Manson considered it of first importance to send out to Bagdad or the Persian Gulf a small expedition under the Protozoologist of the London School of Tropical Medicine for the purpose of investi- gating the connection between Oriental sore and Kala-azar, the work to be carried on for a period of three or four months by the Protozoologist and then left in the The total cost was estimated at £750, hands of a capable assistant for eight months.

but the Committee considered this estimate too low.

Other research suggested by Sir P. Manson was the investigation of the bilhar- zia parasite in South Africa at a cost equal to that of his first suggestion; and the investigation of pellagra in Barbados, Egypt, or Southern Europe, at a cost of £500. Major Ross asked for a series of small sums, viz.:———

£150 for a chemist, whose time would be devoted solely to research work; £250 for a student to perform research work for one year in malaria; £150 for a polyglot clerk to work up the bibliography of malaria for the last

ten years;

£250 for carrying out investigation into certain points connected with

amoebic dysentery;

£100 to enable Mr. Newstead to visit Malta and investigate sandflies.

Sir Charles Lucas cautioned the Committee against hasty expenditure, and thought that at the most £1,500 of the surplus funds should be granted to research After some discussion, a compromise was effected, and £900 granted to Sir P. Manson and £900 to Major Ross, to be expended in the one case on Oriental Söre investigation, and in the other case on the various items proposed.

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4. No. 5 of the Agenda. It was decided to contribute £25 towards the cost of erecting a field laboratory near Cambridge.

5. Nos. 9 and 10 of the Agenda. Major Ross undertook to furnish the Com- mittee with a memorandum on the replies sent to Lord Crewe's circular despatch of the 31st of March, on the subject of malaria, and on the reports as to anti- malarial measures taken in the Tropical Colonies and Protectorates.

6. No. 2 of the Agenda. Reports from the Royal Society, the London and Liverpool Schools of Tropical Medicine, Professor Minchin, and Professor Nuttall were received. Sir P. Manson pointed out that certain discrepancies existed in the statements made by Professor Minchin and Dr. Breinl as regards the life history of the Trypanosoma lewisi. It was decided that both Professor Minchin and Dr. Breinl should have the discrepancy brought to their notice, and be asked for their observations on the point.

7. No. 3 of the Agenda. Reports of work done by the bacteriologist in Ceylon and British Guiana were received.

8. No. 4 of the Agenda. Despatches from Barbados and Trinidad comment- ing on the Committee's last report were received, and a memorandum from Perak on the use of parboiled rice for beri-beri patients.

9. No. 7 of the Agenda. It was decided to obtain reports every six months on the work done in the Bacteriological Laboratory recently established in St. Lucia.

10. No. 11 of the Agenda. It was decided that the Annual Report should be put into type with the various reports mentioned in Nos. 2, 3, and 4 of the Agenda as enclosures; and that after examination by the Colonial Office it should be referred to the expert members of the Committee.

11. No. 12 of the Agenda. Mr. Read raised the question of obtaining through the Committee an Assistant Bacteriologist for British Guiana with salary at the rate of £450 to work under Dr. Wise. Sir P. Manson suggested that Dr. Coghill, of the London School of Tropical Medicine, be approached on the subject.

Sir Charles Lucas referred to the vacancy on the Committee created by the death of Sir Ralph Moor; but it was decided to take no steps for the present to elect a new member in his stead.

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No. 103. AUSTRALIA.

THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received 27 November, 1909.)

(No. 252.)

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Governor-General's Office, Melbourne, 21st October, 1909. [Published as No. 30 in Appendix I. to [Cd. 4999], February, 1910.]

No. 104.

FEDERATED MALAY STATES.

THE HIGH COMMISSIONER to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received 27 November, 1909.)

(No. 335.)

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Government House, Singapore, 2nd November, 1909, [Published as No. 8 in Appendix VII. to [ Cd. 4999], February, 1910.]

No. 105.

LEEWARD ISLANDS (DOMINICA.)

THE ACTING ADMINISTRATOR to THE ACTING GOVERNOR. (Received in Colonial Office, 29 November, 1909.)

(No. 329/1571.) (Extract.)

Government House, Dominica, 4th November, 1909.

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[3. While the larger number of cases of malarial disease admitted to the wards

is not necessarily indicative of an increase in the number of infections in Roseau

and its vicinity, it is nevertheless evident that such diseases are all too common, and

am again drawing the attention of the Roseau Town Board to the matter.]

Annexure to No. 105.

EXTRACT from the REPORT on the ROSEAU HOSPITAL for the year 1908.

12. No less than 157 cases of malarial diseases were treated during the year, 95 as in-patients and 62 as out-patients. There were ten deaths amongst the cases admitted to the wards. These numbers are largely in excess of those of the previous year, when there were 128 cases under treatment with four deaths.

13. The quotidian type of intermittent fever was responsible for the largest number of cases, and next in numerical order comes remittent fever, which shows a heavy mortality due to the delay in bringing the cases to the hospital. Unfor- tunately the people usually make light of malarial fever, and so they neglect to obtain medical aid until they become dangerously ill. Several cases of remittent fever were admitted in a comatose condition.

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No. 106.

CYPRUS.

THE HIGH COMMISSIONER to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received 4 December, 1909.)

(No. 241.)

[Answered by No. 113.]

Government House, Nicosia, 25 November, 1909. [Published as No. 33 in Appendix I. to [Cd. 4999], February, 1910.]

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