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FURTHER CORRESPONDENCE

(1914–1915]

IN CONNEXION WITH THE

ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR THE TROPICAL DISEASES RESEARCH FUND.

December 31

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Notifies, in reply to No. 132, the grant | 210

of £200 towards the work of the Quick Laboratory for 1916, and approves the allocation of the grant on the lines proposed; states that the £150 which has accrued savings on the stipends of Lieu- tenants Hindle and Cave should be set off against the requirements of the Laboratory during 1916 or be refunded to the Tropical Diseases Research Fund.

Approves of payments to the London 210

and Liverpool Schools of Tropical Medicine, and to Professor Nuttall, of the amounts and on the dates specified.

Acknowledges receipt of No. 186, and 210

approves the proposed communica- tion to the Administrator of Samoa requests fuller explanation of the admission of the London Missionary Society that some responsibility rests with the Missions as regards the spread of tropical diseases."

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No. 1.

THE SECRETARY OF STATE to THE GOVERNOR AND ACTING BRITISH AGENT & CONSUL-GENERAL. [Answered by Nos. 3 and 8.]

SIR,

(East Africa Protectorate. No. 991.) (Zanzibar. No. 284.)

Downing Street, 18th November, 1913.

I HAVE the honour to inform you that I have had under my consideration the question of the possibility of increasing the funds at the disposal of the Advisory Committee for the Tropical Diseases Research Fund.

2. The work which has been done by means of grants from the Fund is of the greatest importance to all tropical territories, and, as will be seen from the report of the Fund for 1919,* copy of which I enclose for convenience of reference, the annual income has, for the last two years, been insufficient to meet the expendi- ture which the Advisory Committee have recommended, and which I had approved. 3. I am glad to be able to state that since the date of that report; the Govern- ment of the Commonwealth of Australia have shown their interest in the work of the Fund by renewing the subscription formerly given of £200 a year. uncertain, however, whether this subscription will be renewed next year and the grants which I have approved for the year 1914 amount to £3,600, involving a further dimination of the balance to the credit of the Fund.

It is

[To East Africa Protectorate only:-4. No contribution has hitherto been made by the Government of the East Africa Protectorate, but, as the Protectorate is now self-supporting, I consider that the time has come when provision for a con- tribution towards the Fund might properly be made, and I should be glad to learn that you have found it possible to include a sum of £200 in next year's Estimates as a contribution to the Fund.]

[To Zanzibar only :-4. Zanzibar has hitherto contributed annually the sum of £50 towards the Fund, but, in view of the importance of the work which is being carried on, and in view of the many other directions in which funds could usefully be expended, I should be glad if you would consider whether the contribution could not be increased to £100 a year in respect of 1914 and the following years. Gambia, which has a smaller revenue than Zanzibar, contributes an annual sum of £100 to the Fund.]

The

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No. 2.

I have, &c.,

L. HARCOURT.

SIR,

FOREIGN OFFICE to COLONIAL OFFICE. (Received 7th January, 1914.)

Foreign Office, 6th January, 1914.

I AM directed by Secretary Sir Edward Grey to inform you that a copy of your letter of the 4th ultimo,† relative to the proposal to send an expedition to Egypt to study the disease known as bilharziasis, was forwarded to His Majesty's Agent and Consul-General at Cairo, with a request for His Lordship's observa-

tions.

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*[Cd. 8669.]

No. 128 in Miscellaneous No. 274.

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