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I understand, deemed impracticable as a Government scheme. Could it not be arranged with an insurance office? If practicable, I would advocate this method of disposal of the balance.
(3) Move into other quarters, more conveniently situated and less cramped. This will become inevitable when the war is over and an Assistant Director is again appointed. With the resources of the Bureau a bigger rent could be paid, partly, if necessary, out of capital, were that thought a wise procedure. The Bureau could well afford £400 a year for quarters, including rent, taxes, light, fire, and attend- ance, instead of £75 as at present, or the Treasury might be persuaded to provide rooms instead of a portion of the annual grant of £1,000, if not in addition to this grant.
(4) Give a grant to some important investigation into the cause or prevention of tropical diseases, such as into the bionomics of tsetse flies.
(5) Take no decision till the war is over. There is, one supposes, a possibility that some of the contributing Colonies financially affected by the war may wish to withdraw their contributions when the time comes for their renewal. These are in most cases promised up to the year 1916-17 (see Statement of Revenue 1914-15).
The revenue of the Bureau in the financial year 1914-15 was as follows:-- REVENUE, 1914-15.
Publications :-
1135
55
Printing Tropical Diseases Bulletin (19
numbers and two indexes) Printing Tropical Veterinary Bulletin
(four numbers)
Miscellaneous (blocks for illustration, etc.)
Library :-
Purchase of books, binding, etc. ...
Office:-
Postage
£516 2 3
83 10 11 25 9 11
£625 3
1
108 10 8
Imperial Institute, rent for rooms, tele-
phone, and other services
89 12 8
Stationery and office supplies (includes
part of paper for Bulletin) Miscellaneous (includes £14 48. 8d., fur-
niture)
72 3 1
44 18 4
40 6 6
247 0
7
£2,984 3 2
Balance brought forward at 1st April, 1914 Excess of actual income for year 1914-15 over
expenditure
Balance carried forward at 31st March, 1915
£2,093 10 111
+
340 17 5
£2,434 8 4
Total
...
£
8. d.
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(a) Trinidad
for period 1914-15
50 0
Gold Coast
150 0
22
11
"
Federated Malay States Jamaica
100 0
*
"
100
"
Union of South Africa
1914
300 0
27
"
Ceylon
1914-15
100 0
"
**
Gambia
1915
39
29
Fiji
India
Nigeria
Gold Coast
Sierra Leone
(c) British Guiana
50 0 50 0
33
#
500 0
}
J
1914-15
200 0
"
"
13
1915 (21915-16) 150 0 1914-15
100 0
31
++
100 0 0
200000........
ست
16341
Sudan
(a) Treasury
Interest on deposit
Miscellaneous
1914-15
35
1,000 0
28 19
Revenue from sales and advertisements
.344 12
1 9 0
0520
£3,325 0 7
On
It is not known how long the Sudan will continue payment; nothing was paid over in the financial year 1914-15, but £300 was received on 6th April, 1915. the other hand, two payments have been included from the Gold Coast.
A. G. BAGSHAWE. April, 1915.
Annexure 2 to No. 27. TROPICAL DISEASES BUREAU.
ANALYSIS OF EXPENDITURE FOR THE PERIOD FROM 1ST APRIL, 1914, TO 31ST MARCH, 1915. (Financial Year, 1914-15.)
Salaries:-
Office-Director, Assistant Director (part
year), Librarian (part), two typists, boy
Sectional Editors
Editor of Tropical Veterinary Bulletin Reviewers
Indexer
(a) Last contribution payable in 1916-17.
IIL
£1,154 16 1
644 18
150
0
18 14
35 0 0
£2,003 8 10
(b) Last contribution probably payable in 1916-17.
SIR,
No. 28.
COLONIAL OFFICE to FOREIGN OFFICE.
[Copy to Tropical Diseases Bureau. 29th April, 1915. L.F.] [Answered by No. 30.1
Downing Street, 28th April, 1915.
WITH reference to your letter of the 18th of February,* I_am directed by Mr. Secretary Harcourt to request you to inform Secretary Sir E. Grey that the Director of the Tropical Diseases Bureau has received a letter from the Government of the Sudan pointing out that in the year 1908 that Government had promised to the Sleeping Sickness Bureau (as the Tropical Diseases Bureau was then called) a contribution of £300 per annum for four or five years, and inquiring whether it is desired that the contribution should be continued.
2. The matter has been referred to the Managing Committee of the Bureau, and they have strongly recommended that the contribution from the Sudan Govern- ment should be continued. They observe that the Imperial Treasury and practi- cally all the Governments which contribute to the Bureau, including the Govern- ment of India, have guaranteed their contributions for five years from 1912-13; and, while they regret that no communication was sent to the Government of the Sudan when the other Governments were asked to guarantee their contributions for five years, they trust that the Sudan Government will now be willing to guarantee its contribution of £300 for two more years, viz., 1915-16 and 1916-17.
3. Mr. Harcourt concurs in the recommendation of the Committee, and he would be glad if Sir E. Grey would communicate it to the Sudan Government for their favourable consideration.
* Not printed.
(c) Last contribution payable in 1917-18.
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