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3. The question of obtaining contributions from Governments which have not hitherto contributed was raised. The recommendation made at the twenty-second meeting that the Australian States should be asked to contribute was reconsidered, and it was decided that the question whether the Commonwealth Government or the State Governments or both should be approached should be left for the Secretary to discuss with the Colonial Office authorities.

It was further agreed that contributions should be asked for from Hong Kong, the British North Borneo Company, and Sarawak.

4. The Committee considered a proposal that accommodation for the Bureau should be secured in the Endsleigh Palace Hotel, which has recently been acquired by the "Seamen's Hospital Society." Dr. Bagshawe stated that the present quarters of the Bureau in the Imperial Institute were too small, and there seemed to be no prospect of the Institute being able to provide more accommodation.

If the Bureau could move to the Endsleigh Palace Hotel the result should be satisfactory, he thought, to the Imperial Institute as well as to the Bureau, as the space now occupied by the Bureau would be available for other requirements of the In this Institute, and the Bureau would obtain more commodious quarters. connexion a letter from Sir Havelock Charles's private secretary was read, in which it was stated that Sir H. Charles was thoroughly in accord with the proposal. The Committee recommended that the Seamen's Hospital Society should be approached by the Colonial Office on the subject, all details as to accommodation required, rental, etc., being left for discussion between the Director and the Society, if the latter were agreeable to the suggestion generally. It was pointed out by Dr. Bagshawe that the Society should be approached immediately, as otherwise the application would be too late to be considered.

5. The Committee approved of Dr. Bagshawe taking four weeks' leave in August, during three weeks of which period Lieutenant-Colonel A. W. Alcock, C.I.E., F.R.S., of the London School of Tropical Medicine, would act as Director for a fee of ten guineas a week.

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(2) Abridging the summaries in the Bulletins or dropping subjects. I could not recommend such economies as would save any appreciable sum. If the Bureau is to increase its usefulness it will have to spend more rather than less. Publication expenses may diminish.

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Revenue might be increased by :-

(1) The return of the Treasury and contributing Governments to their pre-

war contributions, this would add £1,550.

The sales and advertise-

(2) An increase in the sales and advertisements.

ments revenue should improve, but any increase is likely to be gradual. We ought certainly to make more than £500 (the present amount) from this source. (3). An increase in the price of the publications. If the Tropical Diseases Bulletin were sold at 288. instead of 21s. per annum, the Bureau would realize an additional £100. Such an increase is quite justifiable having regard to the increased cost of production, but whether it would be good policy when an effort is being made to increase the sales is doubtful.

(4) Reduction of the free list. Free copies are sent to India (264), the Colonies (182), the Sudan (28), the Royal Army Medical Corps (28), the Admiralty (18). The first three contribute to the Bureau's maintenance, the two last do not. The contributions do not correspond in any degree to the numbers of the Bulletin received: thus India contributes £250 for 264 copies and the Sudan £150 for 18. The total free list amounts to 688 copies of the Tropical Diseases Bulletin and 372 of the Tropical Veterinary Bulletin; the sales being about 450 of the former and 120 of

the latter.

(5) The agents' commission of twenty-five per cent. on sales might be saved by transferring the distribution to the Bureau; but under present conditions there is not the necessary storage room, and an additional typist would be required, so that economies effected under this head would be of little help.

A. G. BAGSHAWE.

16th June, 1919.

ANNEXURE.

TROPICAL DISEASES BUREAU.

Statement of Receipts and Expenditure for the Year ended 31st March, 1919.

Receipts.

62296

Expenditure.

£1,931 5 8

76 12 5

Sudan contributions (two

years)

Sales and advertisements Interest (War Loan, Bank Deposit, Treasury Bill)

644 18 4.

Parliamentary grant in aid £500 0 Colonial contributions India contribution

0

350 0 0

250 0 0

300 0 0

496 19 10

Salaries Library Publications Office Provident

Account

186 12 11

Fund

250 0 0

129 9 4

3,089 9 4

Deficit

£2,026 9 2

1,083 0 2

£2,028 9 2

£425

0 4 550 0 0

975 0 4

£1,750 0

0

Available Assets:-

In hand or on current account at bank On deposit account at bank

Five per cent. War Loan

...

It is seen that the expenditure amounted to half as much again as the receipts, and that, unless the revenue can be increased or the rate of expenditure decreased before the end of the present financial year, it will be necessary to sell some of our holding in War Loan.

Expenditure might be decreased by :—

(1) Distributing the subjects treated in the Bulletin among a smaller number of sectional editors. It is doubtful if more than £75 could thus be saved.

No. 62.

MINUTES OF THE TWENTY-FOURTH MEETING OF THE MANAGING COMMITTEE OF THE TROPICAL DISEASES BUREAU, HELD AT THE COLONIAL OFFICE ON FRIDAY, THE 24TH OCTOBER, 1919.

Present:

SIR J. WEST RIDGEWAY (Chairman).

SIR J. ROSE Bradford.

MAJOR-GENERAL SIR DAVID BRUCE.

SIR PATRICK MANSON.

SIR HERBERt Read.

MR. A. C. C. Parkinson, Secretary.

(DR BAGSHAWE, Director of the Bureau, also attended.)

1. THE minutes of the twenty-third meeting* were approved.

2. The financial statement for the half-year-April to September, 1919- was received and considered.

Dr. Bagshawe stated that the balance at 30th of September, 1919, was £295 118. 6d., but that large Stationery Office accounts for printing, etc., bad since been received, so that the expenditure from 1st-23rd October, 1919, had been £577 138. 3d.

To meet this it has been necessary to apply for payment of part

of the Parliamentary grant-in-aid. The receipts from this source, from Colonial contributions, and from the selling agents since 30th September, 1919, had been £667 0s. 6d., and the balance on 23rd October was £384 188. 94d. He estimated that the expenditure for the second half-year, i.e., October, 1919, to March, 1920, would be about £1,800, and that there would thus be, after making allowance for estimated receipts, a debit balance of £800 on the 31st of March next.

* No. 61.

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