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Annexure 3 to No. 34.
MEMORANDUM ON THE PARLIAMENTARY GRANT-IN-AID or £1,000 TO THE TROPICAL DISEASES BUREAU.
THE discontinuance of the Parliamentary Grant-in-Aid of £1,000 to the Tropical Diseases Bureau would, it is feared, give serious discouragement to the subscribing Dominions and Colonies who might conclude that the Imperial Govern- ment does not regard the work of the Bureau as of Imperial value.
Such an impression could not but be detrimental to the progress of the Bureau. At present, of the self-governing Dominions, the Commonwealth of Australia con- tributes £400 annually while the Union of South Africa and New Zealand contribute £300 and £150. An official invitation to Canada to contribute is contemplated. If the Grant from the Imperial Government is not renewed the favourable consid- eration of this application will be seriously prejudiced.
But apart from this the Bureau's work should not be regarded as of a restricted or topical value. The maintenance of health in the Royal Navy, the Army, the Royal Air Force and the Mercantile Marine, abroad as well as at home, is of para- mount interest to the Imperial Government, and the importance of the Bureau's work in this connexion is considerable. It is significant to note that during the late War the Surgeon-General's Office of the United States Army subscribed annually for 109 copies of the Bureau's publication-The Tropical Diseases Bulletin and, on the cessation of the War, for 40 copies, so that each Corps Area Surgeon in the United States and all Surgeons in tropical stations might be supplied. Similarly, the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery of the United States Navy Depart- ment subscribes annually for 27 copies for the use of Naval Medical Officers on home and tropical stations.
It does not seem unreasonable to say that if these foreign Services benefit from the Bureau's work, the Imperial Services and the Empire as a whole benefit at least commensurately, and that in contributing to the funds of the Bureau the Imperial Government is furthering a work which both economically, and from a humanitarian point of view is of imperial concern.
Having regard to the Parliamentary Grant-in-Aid free copies of the Bureau's publications are supplied to the Royal Navy, the Army, and the Royal Air Force, and to such British Colonies and Dependencies as are debarred by paucity of revenue from contributing to the Bureau.
Although, in response to an invitation sent in 1923 by the Secretary of State for the Colonies, twelve of the contributing Governments have increased the amounts of their contributions by 100 per cent. or more, an increase in the amount of the Parliamentary Grant-in-Aid, which was fixed at £1,000 in 1912, is not requested. As soon as the state of the Bureau's finances permits an extension of the work of the Bureau is intended. It is doubtful whether this will be possible without the Treasury Grant.
TROPICAL DISEASES BUREAU.
Statement of Revenue from Grants in 1920-21 and in 1924-25.
1920-1921.
Bengal
Parliamentary Grant-in-aid
India, Government of
United Provinces
Bombay
Punjab
Burma
Bihar and Orissa
Central Provinces
Assam
Sudan
Egypt
South Africa
Australia
Queensland
1924-1925.
£
£
.1,000 -.500
1,000
250
30
30
30
30
15
30
10
300
300
£E100
300
300
200
400
200
New Zealand
Fiji Nigeria Gold Coast Sierra Leone Gambia Uganda Kenya Zanzibar
Hongkong
Straits Settlements Federated Malay States Sarawak
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119
£
£
150
200
400
150
500
150
150
250
300
250
300
200
300
50
100
50
100
250
200
20
60
100
100
150 50
50
200
50
50
£E50 30
50
£3,700
£7,085
British North Borneo Company.. Ceylon Mauritius Cyprus Gibraltar
British Honduras British Guiana Jamaica Trinidad
Barbados
Leeward Islands
Palestine
'Iraq
Bahamas
Annexure 4 to No. 34.
Tropical Diseases Bureau, 23, Endsleigh Gardens, London, N.W.1,
27th October, 1924.
DEAR SIDEBOTHAM,
I DON'T know whether it has yet been settled who is to be the Chairman of the Honorary Managing Committee. Unless a Committee meeting is to be called in November, I want you to get sanction from someone for a change of grades in the Bureau staff. At the 27th meeting of the Committee (January, 1921) it was approved that I should have an Assistant Secretary at £200-£15-£300, and a Second Assistant Secretary at £175-£15-£275. At the 32nd meeting (January, 1923) the appointment was approved of a third lady assistant secretary at a salary not exceed- ing £150 a year. We found in fact that it was not necessary to give more than £130, and we designate this grade Junior Assistant Secretary. Later this grade was made permanent at £130-£10-£200 per annum. At the end of this month the lady who has held the post of Second Assistant Secretary is leaving. I do not wish to replace her at present but rather to engage another Junior Assistant Secretary at £130. This will in point of fact effect an immediate saving of £75 per annum, though this was not my object; but though none is likely to raise an objection, I think the auditors will want a covering note of sanction.
Yours, &c.,
ARTHUR G. Bagshawe.
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