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Mr. Read stated that he proposed to inform Dr. Leiper, if the Committee con- curred, that, assuming the fund remained in existence, there was no reason to suppose that his position would be more insecure in the future than it had been in the past, and the Committee concurred in this proposal.

The Committee also considered that it would be desirable at a later meeting to discuss whether some permanency in the grant should not be guaranteed to the Schools, and they unanimously agreed that, in giving the grant of £600 to the London School, it should be made clear that the grant was mainly for research purposes.

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a comparatively small addition to the funds of the Bureau would suffice for this purpose. If the material available was sufficient, a separate publication could be issued and a special sectional editor could be appointed to carry out the work under the general control of the Director of the Bureau, but in any case the expense would not be great.

7. The Committee agreed that the Government of Hong Kong should be invited to consider the strengthening of the line of sanitary defence in the manner suggested in Major James's report.

8. I am to add that Mr. Harcourt concurs in the recommendations of the Com- mittee, and is prepared, if Lord Crewe so desires, to communicate with the Govern- ments of Hong Kong and the Straits Settlements in the manner suggested in the Committee's report.

I am,

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H. W. JUST.

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

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No. 81.

COLONIAL OFFICE to INDIA OFFICE.

Downing Street, 5 June, 1913.

SIR,

I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Harcourt to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 16th of April,* and to request you to inform the Marquess of Crewe that Major James's report on yellow fever was considered by the Advisory Committee of the Tropical Diseases Research Fund on the 30th of May.

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2. With reference to the first of the recommendations made by Major James, the Advisory Committee considered that his report with regard to the possibility of the dissemination of yellow fever justified the proposed appointment of a Medical Officer as an intelligence officer at Panama, with a view to obtaining continuous and trustworthy information regarding any outbreak of yellow fever. While considering that it would probably be desirable that the Medical Officer appointed for this purpose should be attached to the British Consulate, the Committee considered that the matter was an administrative one for arrangement between the Secretary of State for India and the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, upon which they were not called to advise.

3. As regards Hong Kong and Singapore, the Committee considered that the work should be carried out by the existing Health Departments in these Colonies, the staff being supplemented if that were found necessary; and they recommended that the Secretary of State should communicate with the Colonial Governments to ascer- tain whether there would be any difficulty in carrying out the suggestions made in Major James's report.

4. With regard to the prosecution of organised enquiries into the etiology and prevention of yellow fever under the control and auspices of the Royal Society, it was pointed out at the meeting that a Commission had been recently appointed by the Secretary of State for the Colonies to investigate the question of yellow fever in the British West African Colonies, and it was suggested that the enquiries recom- mended by Major James already came, or could easily be included within, the scope of the Commission. As Sir J. Rose Bradford was of opinion that the Royal Society would not desire to undertake work which is already being carried out adequately by another body, the Committee recommended that Sir John Rose Bradford and Sir Havelock Charles should discuss with the expert members of the Yellow Fever Commission the question how far its terms and references covered the enquiries which were recommended by Major James.

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5. The Committee also considered Major James's recommendation that steps should be taken to obtain information on such subjects as the presence or absence and distribution of Stegomyia fasciata in eastern Colonial and other ports, the problem of whether the very widely distributed and abundant species, Stegomyia scutellaris, carries the disease or not, the bionomics of those species, &c." and they were unanimously of opinion that this work should be handed over to the Entomo- logical Research Committee, which was prepared, in return for an annual contri- bution of £500, to do this work, and also, on the agricultural side, to give the Govern- ment of India the benefit of the organisation which has been recently established under the name of the Imperial Bureau of Entomology,

6. With regard to the proposal for the establishment of a central intelligence bureau for the receipt, compilation, and distribution of information, the Committee agreed that so far as the medical work was concerned, the distribution could be best carried on by the Tropical Diseases Bureau, on the Managing Committee of which the Secretary of State for India has already a representative. They considered that

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No. 82.

STRAITS SETTLEMENTS.

RETURN OF MALARIAL FEVER. BLACKWATER FEVER, YELLOW FEVER, FILARIASIS, AND DENGUE DURING THE YEAR FROM 1ST JANUARY TO 31ST DECEMBER, 1912.

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(Received 7 June, 1913.)

[Published as No. 3 in Appendix 1. to [Cd. 7261], March, 1914.]

No. 83.

COLONIAL OFFICE to LONDON SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE. Downing Street, 7 June, 1913.

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SIR,

I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Harcourt to inform you that your letter of the 10th May, making an application for a further grant from the Tropical Diseases Research Fund, was laid before the Advisory Committee at their meeting of the 30th May.

2. The Advisory Committee have recommended, and the Secretary of State has approved, a further grant of £600 in respect of 1913 to the London School of Tropical Medicine, and this sum will be paid to you, on application, by the Crown Agents at any time after the 1st July, 1913. It is to be understood that the grant is mainly for the purpose of research.

3. The Advisory Committee have considered the request of the School for an assurance that they will continue to pay in future years a definite grant. While they are in sympathy with the desire of the School to have information as to its future financial position as regards the Fund, they are not at present in a position to give any definite assurance, but the wishes of the School will be duly borne in mind.

I am, &c.,

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No. 84.

H. W. JUST.

COLONIAL OFFICE to LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE.

SIR,

Downing Street, 7 June, 1913.

I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Harcourt to inform you that your letter of the 19th May, on the subject of the grant from the Tropical Diseases Research Fund to the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, was laid before the Advisory Committee at their meeting of the 30th May.

2. The Advisory Committee have recommended, and the Secretary of State has approved, an additional grant of £600 from the Fund for the year 1913, making, with the £600 already granted, £1,200 for the year, the same amount as has been

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