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I am, &c.,

FRANCIS BERTIE.

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Mr. Secretary Chamberlain feels confident that you will concur in these views and suggestions, and he would be greatly obliged to you if you would place your extensive experience at his service, and would form, with yourself as President, a small committee of experienced Colonial Medical Officers for the purpose of devising a model form on which all medical reports should in future be based.

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ception of the Niger Coast Protectorate, received grants in aid from Parliamentary Funds, it will be necessary to obtain the assent of the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury to the expenditure that would be involved. I am therefore to request you to ask Mr. Secretary Chamberlain whether any communication has been addressed to the Treasury on account of the participation of Her Majesty's African Colonies in the pro- posed arrangement, and, if so, with what result.

26144.

No. 6.

I am, &c.,

H. BERTRAM COX.

4429,

No. 9.

121

SIR,

COLONIAL OFFICE to WAR OFFICE, ADMIRALTY, INDIA OFFICE, and FOREIGN OFFICE.

[Answered by Nos, 7, 9, 10 and 11.]

Downing Street, February 11, 1898.

I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Chamberlain to transmit to you, to be laid before the Marquess of Lansdowne [Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty] [Secretary of State for India in Council] [Marquess of Salisbury] the accompanying draft of a circu- lar* which he proposes to address to the General Medical Council and the leading British Medical Schools, urging the desirability of extending the teaching of tropical medicine in this country.

Mr. Chamberlain trusts that this draft will meet with the approval of Lord Lansdowne [Their Lordships] [Lord George Hamilton] [Lord Salisbury], and that he may thus be enabled to give additional weight to his appeal in the manner proposed in paragraphs 8 and 9 of the draft.

I am to ask that an early reply may be given to this letter.

SIR,

ADMIRALTY to COLONIAL OFFICE.

(Received February 26, 1898.)

Admiralty, February 24, 1898. I HAVE received and laid before my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty your letter of the 11th instant,* 26144/97, enclosing the draft of a circular which Mr. Secretary Chamberlain proposes to address to the General Medical Council and the leading British Medical Schools, urging the desirability of extending the teaching of tropical medicine in this country, and I am commanded by their Lordships to acquaint you, for the information of the Secretary of State, that they approve of the proposals contained in the draft.

4700.

I am, &c.,

EVAN MACGREGOR.

3602.

SIR,

No. 7.

I am, &c.,

C. P. LUCAS.

FOREIGN OFFICE to COLONIAL OFFICE.

(Received February 17, 1898.)

letter

Foreign Office, February 16, 1898. I AM directed by the Marquess of Salisbury to acknowledge receipt of your of the 11th instant, and to inform you that he concurs in the circular which Mr. Secretary Chamberlain proposes to address to the General Medical Council and the leading British Medical Schools, urging the desirability of extending the teaching of tropical medicine in this country.

I am, &c.,

4271.

No. 8.

F. H. VILLIERS.

FOREIGN OFFICE to COLONIAL OFFICE.

(Received February 25, 1898.) [Answered by No. 32,]

Foreign Office, February 23, 1898.

SIB,

I HAVE laid before the Marquess of Salisbury your letter (26144/97) of the 2nd instant, enclosing a copy of a scheme for the improvement of the medical service in the West African Colonies, and I am directed by His Lordship to state that he concurs in principle in the proposal that African Protectorates administered by this Department should be included in the arrangement. But as all these Protectorates, with the ex-

‡ No. 2.

• See No. 12.

† No. 6.

SIR,

No. 10.

WAR OFFICE to COLONIAL OFFICE.

(Received March 2, 1898.)

[Answired by No. 33.]

War Office, London, S.W,. February 28, 1898.

I HAVE the honour, by desire of the Secretary of State for War, to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 11th instant, transmitting the draft of a circular which the Secretary of State for the Colonies proposes to address to the General Medical Council and the leading British Medical Schools, as to the desirability of extending the teaching of tropical medicine in this country.

Lord Lansdowne, while entirely concurring in the desirability of obtaining for medi- cal students opportunities for a more thorough study of tropical diseases, wishes to sug- gest that the practical difficulties consequent on the few cases of diseases of tropical origin that come under treatment in the Metropolitan Hospitals preclude the proba- bility of satisfactory instruction in the subject being imparted at the several Medical Schools, and in the absence of such cases it is feared that theoretical and book instruc- tion will fail to obtain the results anticipated by Mr. Chamberlain.

It may be observed that the Royal Naval Hospital, Haslar, and in a greater degree the Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley, where the Professors at the Army Medical School have wide experience of cases of tropical disease, have peculiar opportunities for the observation of this class of disease, and Lord Lansdowne desires to suggest, for the con- sideration of Mr.Chamberlain the advantages of the training of surgeons for the Colonial Service in this special branch of their profession being carried out at the latter Hospital, where they could also obtain a knowledge of hygiene and military surgery. The course of study at the Hospital is of four months' duration.

Should this suggestion commend itself to Mr. Chamberlain, Lord Lansdowne is prepared to propose more definite arrangements as to the terms and method upon which it can be carried out.

I am, &c.,

R. H. KNOX.

• No. 6.

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

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