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No. 25.

MINUTES OF THE SIXTH MEETING OF THE MANAGING COMMITTEE OF THE TROPICAL DISEASES BUREAU, HELD AT THE COLONIAL OFFICE ON THE 24TH JULY, 1913, AT 4.30 P.M.

PRESENT:

Mr. READ (in the Chair).

Sir HAVELOCK CHARLES.

Sir JOHN ROSE BRADFORD.

Sir JOHN MCFADYEAN.

Mr. KEITH (Secretary).

Dr. BAGSHAWE, Director of the Bureau, also attended.

(1) The Minutes* of the 5th Meeting were approved, subject to an alteration in paragraph 4 to show that the rate of the Librarian's increment was £12 10s. a

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(2) The Report of the Sub-Committee with regard to the sectional editors was considered. The Director reported that an arrangement had been made by which Colonel Birt undertook leprosy while Mr. Henderson Smith undertook plague. On the other hand, Dr. Sandwith had been unable to undertake any further work and beri-beri had, therefore, been left in the hands of Fleet-Surgeon Bassett-Smith. Mr. Read mentioned the possibility of beri-beri being entrusted to Dr. Balfour, but it was agreed that he already had enough work to do, and Sir Havelock Charles pointed out that Fleet-Surgeon Bassett-Smith had a practical acquaintance with beri-beri, which was not the case with Dr. Balfour.

The Director mentioned that the arrangement with Dr. Castellani was not working very satisfactorily; he had only a small number of journals available, and it was, therefore, necessary from time to time to purchase numbers of journals and forward them to him. Moreover, it was impossible for him to be in touch with Dr. Castellani in view of the great distance of Ceylon. On the other hand, he was not in a position to suggest any other person to undertake the work at present.

It was mentioned that in Mr. Henderson Smith's absence his work would be done by Mr. W. J. Penfold of the Lister Institute, that Dr. Balfour had taken over the work formerly entrusted to Dr. Thomson, and that Dr. Porter was acting for Dr. Fantham, who was absent at Khartoum.

Mr. Read mentioned that Dr. Bahr, who had done work on sprue and dysentery, was now in England and might be available for work if occasion occurred for utilising his services.

(3) A summary of the accounts of the agents was circulated, from which it appeared that between January and June there were 161 fresh subscribers to the Tropical Diseases Bulletin at 21s., 65 fresh subscribers to the Tropical Diseases Veterinary Bulletin at 10s., while the value of the advertisements was £56 18s. 6d. gross. The receipts from subscriptions and advertisements amounted, therefore, to £258 9s. 6d., from which fell to be deducted the agents' commission on the sub- scriptions and the advertisements, and allowance for postage on copies sent out, leaving a balance to the credit of the Bureau of £175 3s. 10d. The Director stated that on June 30th there were 231 subscribers to the Tropical Diseases Bulletin, and 110 to the Tropical Diseases Veterinary Bulletin.

(4) The letter from Professor Morgenroth, of Berlin, was considered. It was agreed that no case had yet been made out for including in the scope of the Bulletin work on pneumonia, and that a reply should be sent by the Director in which it should be stated that it was not at present possible to include pneumonia in the list of subjects treated of, but the question might be considered later on.

(5) The question of holidays was brought up by the Director on the ground that he himself would be unable, in all probability, to get away before the 20th of Sep- tember, while Dr. Low who would normally act for him found it necessary to take leave between September 9th and October 6th. There would, therefore, be a period of about a fortnight from the 22nd September in which neither he nor Dr. Low

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would be able to be at the Bureau. He suggested that he should be authorised to obtain some person to act and to attend for two or three hours a day during that period. The Committee concurred and authorised an expenditure not exceeding ten guineas a week for two weeks in supplying a substitute to the Director should he and Dr. Low be simultaneously absent.

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No. 26.

TREASURY to COLONIAL OFFICE.

(Received 6 September, 1913.)

Treasury Chambers, 5th September, 1913. I HAVE laid before the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury Sir H. Just's letter of the 11th July last (4185/1911),* on the subject of the continuation of the grant of £1,000 per annum to the Tropical Diseases Bureau.

In reply, I am to request you to inform Mr. Secretary Harcourt that, in the circumstances represented, my Lords sanction the continuation of the grant for a further period of three years from the 1st April, 1914, on the understanding that the contribution at present made by the Sudan Government will be continued for a like period.

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No. 27.

I am, &c.,

T. L. HEATH.

MINUTES OF THE SEVENTH MEETING OF THE MANAGING COM- MITTEE OF THE TROPICAL DISEASES BUREAU, HELD AT THE COLONIAL OFFICE ON THE 17TH OCTOBER, 1913, AT 5.30 P.M.

PRESENT:

Sir J. WEST RIDGEWAY (in the Chair).

Sir JOHN ROSE BRADFORD.

Sir DAVID BRUCE.

Sir HAVELOCK CHARLES.

Sir W. B. LEISHMAN.

Mr. LISTER (representing the Foreign Office).

Sir JOHN MCFADYEAN.

Sir STEWART STOCKMAN.

Mr. READ.

Sir RONALD Ross.

Mr. KEITH (Secretary).

Dr. BAGSHAWE, Director of the Bureau, also attended.

1. The minutest of the Sixth Meeting of the Managing Committee were approved.

2. The question of obtaining extra accommodation for the Bureau was dis- cussed, Mr. C. A. Harris, the Colonial Office representative on the Committee of Management of the Imperial Institute, being present, at the invitation of the Managing Committee. The Director explained that difficulty was experienced especially in providing accommodation for persons desirous of making use of the library attached to the Bureau. It was desirable to afford facilities for the use of this library, but in addition to limitation of space the available room was decidedly noisy for working purposes. He enquired whether it was not possible to place at the disposal of the Bureau any of the rooms in its immediate vicinity, two of which were in the occupation of the Colonial Nursing Association and one in the occupa- tion of the Bureau of the Universities of the Empire. Mr. Harris stated that in about four years' time, when the University of London had moved from its existing

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