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11. The Sleeping Sickness Bulletin I would continue unchanged for the present and should keep it in my own hands. Sleeping sickness is the only tropical disease which is restricted to one continent, and the wide view taken of the subject makes this journal of considerable interest to protozoologists and veterinarians at home as well as abroad. There are stronger reasons for the separate treatment of sleeping sickness than of any other tropical disease, but whether they are strong enough is, of course, debateable. The Kala Azar Bulletin would, after its fourth number, be absorbed in the general journal.

12. There would then be three journals, the Sleeping Sickness Bulletin, the Tropical Diseases Bulletin, and the Tropical Veterinary Bulletin; or, if the Sleep- ing Sickness Bulletin is merged, there would be two-on the Tropical Diseases of Man and Animals respectively. In that case the trypanosome diseases would be treated less fully than at present, and part of the matter of the present Sleeping Sickness Bulletin would find a place in the Veterinary Bulletin.

13.

Another duty I would assign to the Tropical Diseases Bureau is that of editing, abridging if necessary, and issuing as an annual volume the medical and sanitary reports from the tropical and sub-tropical Colonies. These would be published with maps and tables and would make much valuable matter more accessible than it is at present. Selections from these reports are published twice a month in the Journal of Tropical Medicine. These sometimes appear eighteen months after issue of the report (the current number contains a report from Calcutta for the year 1909) and are not easily available till the volume is bound at the end of the year. I think that with careful editing and publication in a bound volume these reports would be far more widely read, with the result that more care would be given to the form in which they are put, and medical officers would be stimulated both to do and record good work. I would, however, postpone this part of the scheme till the Bureau had got into full swing.

14. Popular brochures on the means of avoiding, restricting the spread of, and stamping out some of the tropical diseases would be published from time to time and circulated in the regions where the disease is prevalent. I do not think, however, that in the case of many of the diseases mentioned above these would be of value. Either such work can be best done locally, e.g., for plague in India or, the means of prevention can be summed up in a sentence, e.g., Malta fever; or, we do not know the cause, e.g., pellagra.

15. Staff. The staff would consist of a Director, who would be General Editor, an Assistant Director, numerous Sub-Editors, a Librarian, and two typists, one of whom would assist the Librarian.

16. The Assistant Director would share the work of editing the Bulletins and other publications. He would be a man with medical qualifications, some tropical experience, and with a Diploma in Tropical Medicine or, at least, a certificate of attendance on a tropical course. He should be able to write in a clear style. He must know French and German well enough to make accurate summaries of papers in those languages, and should know, or be prepared to learn, Italian or some other European language. He would undertake, as a sub-editor, some tropical subject with which he had practical acquaintance.

17.

The offices would consist of a large lofty room, lit from the top, if possible, at least 30 x 20 feet, or two lesser rooms, to form a library and reading room, and of at least four other rooms as offices. It is important to give ample space to the library, which grows fast and will grow yet faster; the quarters should afford room for expan- sion in all directions.

18. The funds might be allocated thus:-

Librarian

£

£

Director

650

Assistant Director

350

182

Sub-Editors, at £40-£60 Typist

(not to exceed)

500

78

65

1,825

Sleeping Sickness Bulletin...

180

Tropical Diseases Bulletin

400

Veterinary Branch and Bulletin

250

Occasional Publications

60

890

Periodicals, binding, &c.

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Library

£

50

Postage (does not include postage of Bulletins) Office expenses :—

25

120

195

2,910

Stationery, boy, charwoman, light and fire, &c ...

Margin

Notes on above.

140

£3,050

19.-(1) The salary put down for the Director is that which he will receive in In June, 1914, according to present arrangements, his salary reaches

1912-13. £700.

(2) I have estimated for an Assistant Director giving his whole time. To get (3) When the new Bureau is constituted I think that the Librarian's salary should advance by annual increments.

a man of some experience it may be necessary to pay £400.

(4) The allocation for the Bulletins depends on whether two or three are decided on; the dropping of the Sleeping Sickness Bulletin would mean the saving of £100.

(5) Tropical Diseases Bulletin.-The estimate allows for 21 numbers a year at about £19 a number. If the numbers are sold as I suggest, there will be a saving under this heading of, say, £50 at first and later of a larger sum. If there is to be free distribution, £80 a year must be set aside for postage.

(6) The margin shown is not a large one, but it will not be difficult to raise £200 from other Colonies if necessary. £100 is expected from Trinidad.

(7) Furniture. There will be a balance of £450 at the end of this financial year, which allows for the purchase of all that will be required.

January 23rd, 1912.

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SIR,

No. 8.

ARTHUR G. BAGSHAWE.

COLONIAL OFFICE to INDIA OFFICE. [Answered by No. 9.]

Downing Street, 30 January, 1912.

I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Harcourt to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 18th of January,* on the subject of the proposed expansion of the Sleeping Sickness Bureau.

2. In reply, I am to request that you will inform the Secretary of State that the sums at the disposal of the Bureau will be those specified in the second para- graph of the letter from this Office of the 12th January, f amounting in all to £1,350, together with the existing grants, namely £1,000 from the Imperial Government, and £300 from the Soudan, making a total of £2,650, to which will be added the sum of £500 from the Government of India.

3. As stated in the letter from this Office of the 12th January,† it is proposed to consider the details of the method of expanding the Bureau at a meeting of the Managing Committee, on which Mr. Harcourt would desire that the Secretary of State for India should be represented. Pending the report of the Managing Com- mittee, Mr. Harcourt is not in a position to state precisely what the cost of expanding the Bureau will be, but I am to enclose for the information of the Secretary of State a copy of a memorandum which has been prepared by the Director of the Bureau, and which gives his views as to the, best method of carrying out the pro- posed expansion.

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† No. 5.

Enclosure in No. 7.

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