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The Committee authorized him to sell out Five per cent. War Loan, to an amount not exceeding £800, as required, in order to meet the expenditure up to the end of the next half-year.

The question of obtaining a refund of income tax on the income of the Bureau was raised. Dr. Bagshawe said that the matter had been brought up previously at a Committee meeting, and that it had been decided not to make any attempt to recover the tax. The Secretary was directed to look into the matter."

Dr. Bagshawe stated The agents' accounts were received and passed. that the actual sums obtained from the agents in respect of sales, advertisements, etc., were as follows:-1917-18, £432; 1918-19, £470; 1919-20, £499.

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Dr. Bagshawe reported that he had received a definite offer from the Seamen's Hospital Society for the accommodation of the Bureau with the London He stated that he School of Tropical Medicine at the Endsleigh Palace Hotel. was quite satisfied with the accommodation offered, which was practically double that now at his disposal at the Imperial Institute; that he had given provisional notice of removal to the Director of the Imperial Institute for the end of January; that provisionally he had accepted the offer of the Seamen's Hospital Society, and that he had informed the Secretary of the Society that the maximum figure which could be considered for the rent was £150 per annum.

The Committee approved of the removal of the Bureau to the rooms offered by the Society, but recommended that not more than £100 per annum should be paid for rent.

It was decided that a letter should be sent from the Colonial Office to the Seamen's Hospital Society, subject to the approval of the Secretary of State, thanking the Society for offering accommodation to the Bureau, and accepting the offer on the understanding that a rent of not more than £100 per annum was charged.

5. Dr. Bagshawe stated that the agents had not proved altogether satis- factory with regard to the sale of the Bulletins, advertisements, etc., and that with the return of Captain Sheppard he wished the Bureau to take over the sales, distribution, and advertisements altogether. He estimated that there would be a saving of about £90 per annum on the commission of the agents, and that the Bureau would be better able to increase the sales and advertisements.

At present. at any rate, he did not anticipate that any further staff would be required for this work.

The Committee agreed to Dr. Bagshawe's proposal to take effect from the 1st of April, 1920.

6. A revised list of sectional editors and their subjects was received and approved. Dr. Bagshawe pointed out that the total payments under the revised He arrangements amounted to £650 per annum instead of £700 per annum. explained that, after consultation with Sir J. Bradford, typhus and enteric fever had been excluded from the list of subjects. The appointment of Dr. Bigland as sectional editor for pellagra, at £25 per annum, from 21st August, 1919, was approved.

7. The Committee considered the question of increasing the salary of Captain Sheppard as Librarian and Secretary. In July, 1914, Captain Sheppard was drawing £225 per annum, and from the 1st July, 1915, he would have drawn £250 per annum, but he was released for military service in August, 1914, so that He was actually at the time when he left the Bureau he was drawing only £225. demobilized in July, 1919, and returned to work at the Bureau in August. He had been paid at the rate of £250 since returning to work; but Dr. Bagshawe nointed out that this remuneration was quite inadequate in present circumstances. The suggestion that Captain Sheppard should now be paid at the rate of £300 plus war bonus, on the scale approved for the Civil Service, was negatived, and it was decided that he should be paid at the rate of £350 per annum as from 5th August, 1919, the date on which he returned to duty, and the question of increasing his emoluments still further might be taken up, if necessary, when the financial nosition of the Bureau was more satisfactory.

8. Correspondence between the Director of the Burean and Captain Wyler with regard to an increase in his emoluments as sectional editor was received. In the present circumstances of the Bureau the Director could not hold out hope of Captain Wyler's emoluments being increased. The Committee approved the Director's action.

9. The Committee approved certain office overlaps and small increases to

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Office boy salary increased to 14s. per week, from 6th July, 1919.

Typist salary increased from £2 58. to £2 108. per week, from 1st September,

1919.

Typist salary increased from £2 to £2 5s. per week, from 31st August,

1919.

Overlap of salary for Librarian and Acting Librarian for five days,

£1 178. 10d.

Overlap of salary for additional typist for three weeks, £6 158.

10. Dr. Bagshawe requested that advertisements for Medical Officers in the Colonial Service might be made in the Tropical Diseases Bulletin, instead of, or as well as in, the Journal of Tropical Medicine, to which they are now sent.

The Committee agreed to recommend this procedure for the consideration of the Secretary of State.

11. Dr. Bagshawe reported that the British North Borneo Company had agreed to contribute £50 per annum towards the funds of the Bureau for a period of five years, beginning in 1920.

The Committee expressed their appreciation, and agreed that free copies of the publications of the Bureau should be sent to the Company for transmission to British North Borneo, namely, six copies of the Tropical Diseases Bulletin and three copies of the Tropical Veterinary Bulletin.

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No. 63.

MINUTES OF THE TWENTY-FIFTH MEETING OF THE MANAGING COMMITTEE OF THE TROPICAL DISEASES BUREAU, HELD AT THE COLONIAL OFFICE, FRIDAY, 7th May, 1920.

Present:

SIR HERBERT READ (Chairman).

SIR J. ROSE BRADFORD,

SIR DAVID BRUCE.

SIR HAVELOCK CHARLES.

SIR JOHN MCFADYEAN.

MR. A. C. C. PARKINSON (Secretary).

Dr. A. G. Bagshawe, Director of the Bureau, and Professor R. T. Leiper, of the London School of Tropical Medicine, attended.

1. THE Minutes of the Twenty-Fourth Meeting of the Committee were approved.

Dr. Bagshawe reported that it had not been necessary for him to sell out War Loan, as authorized by the Committee; and that on representations being made by the Colonial Office to the Board of Inland Revenue, income tax on the income of the Bureau had been refunded.

In reply to an inquiry, the Chairman stated that, on the suggestion of the Secretary of State, the Seamen's Hospital Society had agreed to accommodate the Bureau in their new premises at Endsleigh Gardens at a nominal rental of 1s. per

annum.

The Committee recorded their appreciation of the generosity of the Seamen's Hospital Society, and desired an expression of their thanks to be conveyed to the Society.

2. The question of the future relations of the library of the Bureau with that of the London School of Tropical Medicine was fully discussed. (Memorandum circulated to the Committee annexed:)

The Committee recognized that at present there was an unnecessary duplica- tion of literature collected by the two libraries, for which it would soon be difficult to find adequate accommodation; and the advisability of amalgamating the two libraries to form one library was considered.

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