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No. 61.

LONDON SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE to COLONIAL OFFICE.

(Received 1 November, 1910.)

[Answered by No. 67.]

London School of Tropical Medicine (University of London),

Greenwich, E., 31st October, 1910.

DEAR MR. BErriedale Keith,

I HEAR that you have a meeting of the Committee of the Tropical Diseases Research Fund to-morrow, and that probably the progress made by the expeditions paid for by your Committee will be considered. I therefore send you herewith a report by Dr. C. M. Wenyon, which came to hand on Saturday.

The report of the Pellagra Expedition has not passed through my hands, but I believe that it appeared in the last number of the Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, a copy of which has been sent to you.

Yours very truly,

P. MICHELLI,

Secretary.

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To show you that I am in earnest. I would propose, if the Tropical Diseases Research Fund will grant the £50 towards the stipend of an Entomologist, that I shall increase it by £50 for two years, this on the assumption that the Advisory Committee would agree to defray the stipend of the Assistant to the Quick Pro- fessor, as requested in my application. This would add greatly to Mr. Warburton's effectiveness in connection with the work we are doing.

I shall be very much obliged to you if you will kindly bring this matter to the notice of the Advisory Committee,

And remain, yours, &c.,

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No. 63.

GEO. H. F. NUTTALL.

LONDON SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE to COLONIAL OFFICE.

(Received 16 November, 1910.)

[Answered by No. 67.]

London School of Tropical Medicine (University of London),

Greenwich, S.E., 15th November, 1910. as No. 3 in Appendix IV. to [Cd: 5514]; February, 1911.]

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P.S. Dr. Wenyon's Report has not yet been before the Committee of the Tropical School.

Enclosure in No. 61.

LONDON SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE.

REPORT of the Protozoologist for the Half-year Ending October 31, 1910. REPORT of Six Months' Work of the Expedition to Bagdad on the subject of Oriental Sore.

[Published as enclosure 3 in No. 3 in Appendix IV. to [Cd. 5514], February, 1911.]

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No. 62.

PROFESSOR G. H. F. NUTTALL to COLONIAL OFFICE. (Received 7 November, 1910.)

DEAR MR. Read,

[Answered by No. 71.]

3, Cranmer Road, Cambridge,

4 November, 1910.

In my report to the Tropical Diseases Research Fund, which I handed to you the other day, there was incorporated an appeal for further financial assistance to the amount of £100 per annum, as you may have seen if you read the document. Naturally, it was not my intention that the appeal should form a part of the report in any Blue Book which may be printed. Through various circumstances I was hurried when I handed in the report, or I should have added a request for a further grant of £50 to meet a necessity which has arisen in conjunction with this laboratory. It appears to me imperative that we should appoint a Consulting Entomologist in connection with the Quick Laboratory, and I can think of no more suitable person than Mr. Warburton, who, in the past and at present, is giving up a great deal of his time to the work of insects, ticks, &c., which come to us from the various Colonies. He has worked with great energy and unselfishness for several years, and he is not well off. The work required here in the laboratory has made it necessary for him, so as to be able to go on with it, to give up some remunerative teaching which any man of inferior ability could do equally well. I should like to give him some status in connection with the laboratory, and have him more accessible in connection with the work we are doing and in connection with the teaching of any men who may be sent here in the future for instruction from the Colonial Office.

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No. 64.

MINUTES OF A MEETING OF A SUB-COMMITTEE OF THE TROPICAL DISEASES RESEARCH FUND, HELD ON THE 23RD OF NOVEMBER AT THE COLONIAL OFFICE.

PRESENT:

Sir PATRICK MANSON (in the Chair).

Sir DAVID BRUCE.

Dr. ROSE BRADFORD. Mr. READ.

Mr. KEITH (Secretary).

1. The Sub-Committee considered the question of suggesting the appointment of an officer to investigate vomiting sickness and peripheral neuritis in Jamaica. Various names were laid before the Sub-Committee, and it was finally decided to recommend that there should be appointed Captain Potter, of the Royal Army Medical Corps, who already had experience in laboratory work in India and who was regarded by Sir David Bruce as in every way fitted for the investigation sug- gested. Sir Patrick Manson concurred in the recommendation, though he con- sidered that Dr. Stanton would have done very well for the work, had he been certainly available.

2. Mr. Read laid before the Sub-Committee a letter from Sir Thomas Barlow to Sir Charles Lucas, in which he raised a question as to the recommendation made by the Secretary of State for the Colonies, on the advice of the Tropical Diseases Research Fund Advisory Committee, in favour of the recognition by the General Medical Council of a degree in Tropical Medicine as a registrable qualification. That recommendation included a recommendation for the regulation of the study of tropical medicine by the General Medical Council, and he was opposed to that principle, considering that it was sufficient for the Council to have powers to inspect and to make recommendations if necessary to the Privy Council, but not that they should regulate the study. It was agreed that the only action which could be taken by the Secretary of State was to consult the Tropical Diseases Research Fund Advisory Committee again and ascertain from them whether they desired that letters should be sent to the General Medical Council explaining that they were not in favour of regulation but only of inspection.*

* COLONIAL OFFICE NOTE-At the next meeting of the Committee Sir T. Barlow was asked if he desired to revive the question, but said no, and the matter therefore dropped.—A. B. K.