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the Managing Committee of the Sleeping Sickness Bureau which was held at the Colonial Office on the 17th March,
2. Mr. Harcourt has approved the recommendation of the Managing Committee in favour of the publication of a Bulletin dealing with the literature of the disease kala azar, and I am to request that you will submit a detailed statement of your pro- posal for the publication to be brought before the Managing Committee at their meeting on the 21st April.
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No. 53.
I am,
&c..
C. P. LUCAS.
MINUTES OF THE TWENTY-EIGHTH MEETING OF THE MANAGING COMMITTEE OF THE SLEEPING SICKNESS BUREAU, HELD AT THE COLONIAL OFFICE ON FRIDAY, 21ST APRIL, 1911, AT 4.30 O'CLOCK.
PRESENT:
Sir CHARLES LUCAS (in the Chair).
Sir RUBERT BOYCE.
Sir DAVID BRUCE.
Sir PATRICK MANSON.
Mr. KEITH (Secretary).
Dr. BAGSHAWE also attended.
1. The minutes of the meeting of the 17th March, 1911,* were approved subject It was agreed, on the proposal of Sir David Bruce, that the
to verbal alterations.
meetings should be numbered consecutively in future.
2. Dr. Bagshawe read to the Committee a letter of the 21st April submitting his proposals for the publication of the Bulletin on the Leishmania diseases. He stated that on a rough calculation about 50 or 60 papers regarding these diseases appeared last year. He proposed that a bulletin should be published four times a year, of which about 600 copies would be printed. The cost was difficult to estimate, as it would depend on size and the number printed, but as cach issue of 1,200 copies of the Sleeping Sickness Bulletin cost about £15 the annual cost of the new Bulletin might be £40, to which must be added the remuneration of the sub-editor, postage, &c.
It was agreed that the bibliography of the disease should be published as part of the Bulletin rather than that it should be published separately with a supple- mentary bibliography of sleeping sickness.
Sir Rubert Boyce raised the question whether it was not desirable to lend special weight to the Bulletin by associating with the Managing Committee some person of recognised authority on the diseases of which the Bulletin would treat. It was agreed by Sir Patrick Manson and Sir David Bruce that this proposal was in itself very desirable, and the Managing Committee decided to recommend to the Secretary of State that Lieutenant-Colonel Sir W. B. Leishman be asked to accept a seat on the Managing Committee for all purposes.
Sir Rubert Boyce enquired whether it was proposed that the sub-editor should abstract the papers simply, or whether he should perform generally the same func tions of independent comment which were performed by the Director of the Sleeping Sickness Bureau.
Dr. Bagshawe explained that it was proposed that the duties of the sub-editor should be, as far as possible, similar to those which he performed in respect of the Sleeping Sickness Bulletin, and Sir Rubert Boyce thought this arrangement satis factory. After further discussion it was agreed that Dr. Bagshawe should search for a suitable sub-editor, and submit his name for the consideration of the Com- mittee, the remuneration to be not less than £15 nor more than £25 a number.
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SIR,
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No. 54.
INDIA OFFICE to COLONIAL OFFICE.
(Received May 4, 1911.)
[Answered by No. 55.]
WITH reference to Sir R. Ritchie's letter of the 12th January last,* and
India Office, Whitehall, S.W., 4th May, 1911. previous correspondence, regarding the proposed expansion of the Sleeping Sickness Bureau into a general Tropical Diseases Bureau, I am directed by the Secretary of State for India in Council to say that he has now heard from the Government of India on the subject, and is prepared to sanction a contribution of £500 a year for five years from Indian revenues to the funds of the proposed Bureau. It is proposed that the contribution should commence as soon as arrangements shall have been made for expanding the existing Bureau on the lines indicated in Sir Francis Hop- wood's letters of the 1st April, 1909 and 2nd October, 1909,† and the necessary contributions from the Imperial Government and Colonial Governments shall have been secured.
I am to add, with reference to the last paragraph of Sir Francis Hopwood's letter of the 1st April, 1909, that Lord Morley will be glad in due course to nominate a representative of India on the Managing Committee of the new Bureau, and that the Government of India will be asked to supply a list of officers in India to whom the publications of the Bureau might, with advantage, be sent.
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SIR,
No. 55.
Ï have, &c.,
EDW. S. MONTAGUE.
COLONIAL OFFICE to INDIA OFFICE.
Downing Street, 10 May, 1911.
I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Harcourt to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 4th of May, from which it appears that the Secretary of State for India in Council is prepared to sanction a contribution of £500 a year for five years from Indian revenues for the purpose of expanding the Sleeping Sickness Bureau into a General Tropical Diseases Bureau, as soon as the necessary contributions from other sources shall have been secured.
2.
I am to request you to be good enough to convey to Viscount Morley
Mr. Harcourt's appreciation of his action in the matter.
3. A further communication will be sent to you when the arrangements for expanding the Bureau are approaching completion.
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No. 56.
I am, &c.,
G. V. FIDDES.
MINUTES OF THE 29TH MEETING OF THE SLEEPING SICKNESS BUREAU, HELD AT THE COLONIAL OFFICE ON THE 19TH OF MAY AT 4.30 P.M.
PRESENT:
Mr. READ (in the Chair). Sir DAVID BRUCE.
Sir WILLIAM LEISHMAN.
Sir PATRICK MANSON.
Dr. ROSE BRadford.
Mr. KEITH (Secretary).
Dr. BAGSHAWE also attended.
(1) The minutes§ of the last meeting were approved.
(2) Dr. Bagshawe proposed that the work of preparing the Bulletin on Leish- mania diseases should be entrusted to Dr. Wenyon. He explained that Dr. Wenyon
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‡ No. 51.
§ No. 58.
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was proceeding to Aleppo, but it would be possible to send him papers there, and that it was proposed, in the first place, to bring out a number of the Bulletin, containing references which had been collected already, about the end of July, and to publish in October a second number containing a record of work on the diseases. He mentioned that Dr. Wenyon would be satisfied with remuneration of £20 a number. After discussion it was agreed that the proposal would be approved, subject to the consent of the Managing Committee of the London School of Tropical Medicine being accorded.
Dr. Bagshawe then retired.
(3) The question of Dr. Bagshawe's remuneration was then considered, Dr. Bagshawe having requested that the matter might be raised. It was explained that he was in receipt of £600 a year, but he had no pension rights subsequent to the termination of his active service in Uganda. Mr. Read explained that it would be very difficult or practically impossible to induce the Treasury to consent to making the post pensionable, and he expressed the opinion that Dr. Bagshawe would be contented without having the post made pensionable if he could be given a reason- able increase of salary. Sir David Bruce was strongly of opinion that the question should be dealt with in a more scientific manner, and a calculation be made of the proper equivalent to the salary which Dr. Bagshawe would have been receiving had he remained on in Uganda. On the other hand, it was explained by Mr. Read that it was practically impossible to compare the position in Uganda with the position here, and he urged that some reasonable increase in Dr. Bagshawe's salary might properly be agreed to. Eventually it was agreed to recommend that Dr. Bagshawe should be put on a salary of £600-£700 by annual increments of £25, the first payable on the 1st of July next.
(4) It was agreed, after discussion, that the meetings of the Committee should be held every three months, provided always that special meetings should be called if there was any special work to be done.
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No. 57.
COLONIAL OFFICE to THE LONDON SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE. [Answered by No. 59.]
SIR,
Downing Street, 26th May, 1911. I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Harcourt to inform you that it has been decided by the Managing Committee of the Sleeping Sickness Bureau, with the approval of the Secretary of State, that the Bureau shall publish in future a quarterly bulletin on the Leishmania diseases.
2. On the recommendation of the Managing Committee, Mr. Harcourt is willing to approve of the work of preparing this bulletin being entrusted to Mr. C. M. Wenyon, M.B., B.S., B.Sc., Protozoologist at the London School of Tropical Medicine, at a remuneration of £20 a number, and I am to enquire whether the Managing Committee of the London School would see any objection to his being permitted to undertake this work.
I am, &c.,
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SIR,
No. 58.
G. V. FIDDES.
COLONIAL OFFICE to Dr. A. G. BAGSHAWE.
Downing Street, 26th May, 1911.
I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Harcourt to inform you that the question of. your remuneration as Director of the Sleeping Sickness Bureau was brought before the Managing Committee at their meeting of the 19th May.
2. The Managing Committee have recommended, and the Secretary of State has approved, that your salary should now be fixed at £600 per annum, rising to £700 per annum by annual increments of £25, the first increment to commence ou the 1st of July next.
I am, &c.,
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No. 59.
LONDON SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE to COLONIAL OFFICE. (Received June 10, 1911.)
SIR,
Greenwich, S.E., 8th June, 1911. I BEG to inform you that your letter of the 26th ultimo,* No. 16144/1911, was duly considered at the last meeting of the Committee of the London School of Tropi- cal Medicine. I was directed to inform you that the Committee sce no objection to Dr. Wenyon preparing a quarterly bulletin on the Leishmania diseases, provided that the work in connection with it in no way interferes with his duties in the School, or takes him away from the classes during session.
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No. 60.
I am, &c.,
P. MICHELLI,
Secretary.
MINUTES OF THE 30TH MEETING OF THE SLEEPING SICKNESS BUREAU HELD AT THE COLONIAL OFFICE ON THE 21ST OF JULY, AT 4.30 P.M.
PRESENT:
Mr. READ (in the Chair).
Sir DAVID BRUCE.
Sir PATRICK MANSON.
Sir J. ROSE BRADFORD.
Mr. KEITH (Secretary).
Dr. BAGSHAWE also attended.
(1) The Minutest of the last meeting were approved.
(2) Dr. Bagshawe explained that the first number of the New Bulletin on the Leishmania Diseases, which was to contain the references, was not yet ready. Between 800 and 900 references had already been collected and it was hoped to send the first number to the printers in August and to bring it out in September. It would be, of course, possible to bring out the second number as soon after the first number as it was ready.
Dr. Bagshawe raised the question of the title of the new Bulletin, and it was agreed that it should be described as dealing with Kala Azar simply.
(3) The question was raised whether it was desirable to pass a resolution of sympathy in respect of the death of the late Sir Rubert Boyce, who was a member of the Committee, but it was agreed that, as mention of his services had been made in the last number of the Sleeping Sickness Bulletin, it was not necessary at so late a date to raise the matter further.
(4) Mr. Read mentioned to the Committee that after correspondence between Mr. Harcourt and General Botha, the latter had consented to a grant of £300 a year from the Union of South Africa towards the cost of the Veterinary Bulletin. In addition, the India Office had promised £500 towards the enlargement of the functions of the Bureau on the understanding that further contributions would be invited from the Colonies concerned, and despatches had accordingly been prepared inviting contributions from the Colonies to a total sum of £1,000. The resources of the Bureau would, therefore, be, if the Colonies granted the moneys asked for :-
£1,000 from the Imperial Government.
Sudan Government. Government of India.
Union of South Africa.
300
31
500
300
11
1,000
"
various Colonies, making a total of
£3,100 a year.
The members of the Committee expressed satisfaction with the promised result.
G. V. FIDDES.
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