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SIR,

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No. 141.

COLONIAL OFFICE to PROFESSOR G. H. F. NUTTALL.

Downing Street, 14th December, 1915. I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Bonar Law to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 1st of November, transmitting a report on the work carried out at the Quick Laboratory during the year ended the $1st of October last.

2. The report was laid before the Advisory Committee of the Tropical Diseases Research Fund at their meeting on the 19th of November, and it was read with interest.

3. On the recommendation of the Committee Mr. Bonar Law has approved the grant of the sum of £290 from the fund towards the work of the Laboratory during 1916; and the Crown Agents for the Colonies have been authorized to pay this sum, on application, on or after the 1st of July next. The allocation of the grant on the lines proposed in your letter is approved.

4. The Committee considered the letters from Lieutenant Hindle and Lieutenant Carr, which were forwarded with your letter under acknowledgment, but decided to make no recommendation.

5. As regards the sum of £150 which has accrued as savings on the stipends of the two officers named in the preceding paragraph, I am to say that the Com- mittee expressed the view that such savings should either be set off against the or be refunded to the Tropical requirements of the Laboratory during 1916 Diseases Research Fund.

I am, &c.,

HENRY LAMBERT,

for the Under-Secretary of State.

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3. With reference to the fourth paragraph of your despatch, I should be glad if I might be furnished with a somewhat fuller explanation as to the mean- ing of the admission by the Foreign Secretary of the London Missionary Society that some responsibility rests with the missions as regards the spread of tropical diseases." I should also be glad to learn whether it would, in your opinion, be possible and desirable to obtain the assistance of the missions in the suppression of tropical diseases.

I have, &c.,

A. BONAR LAW.

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No. 142.

GENTLEMEN,

COLONIAL OFFICE to CROWN AGENTS.

Downing Street, 14th December, 1915. WITH reference to the letter from this Office of the 23rd of December, 1914,† you that he approves of your I am directed by Mr. Secretary Bonar Law to inform making the following payments from the Tropical Diseases Research Fund:-

(a) To the London and the Liverpool Schools of Tropical Medicine the sum of £500 each, on or after the 1st of January, 1918, and the sum of £500 each on or after the 1st July, 1916.

(b) To Professor G. H. F. Nuttall, F.R.S., the sum of £290, on or after the

1st of July, 1916.

I am, &c.,

HENRY LAMBERT,

for the Under-Secretary of State.

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No. 143.

SIR,

WESTERN PACIFIC.

THE SECRETARY OF STATE to THE HIGH COMMISSIONER. (Gilbert and Ellice Islands. No. 369.)

Downing Street, 31st December, 1915.

I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No. 503, of

the 1st of November last,‡ on the subject of mosquito-borne diseases.

2. I approve of your communicating with the Administrator of Samoa, as proposed in the third paragraph of your despatch.

* No. 182.

+ No. 90.

↑ No. 196.

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

Reference :-

HC.O. 885

23 PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON

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