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the undertaking, and to arrange for the purchase of the hut, sending the account to the Crown Agents for the Colonies.

3. A copy of a letter * which has been addressed to the Foreign Office is en- closed for your information.

7902.

SIR,

No. 19.

I am, &c.,

R. L. ANTROBUS.

FOREIGN OFFICE to COLONIAL OFFICE..

(Received March 13, 1900.)

Foreign Office, March 12, 1900. I AM directed by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to transmit to you, to be laid before the Secretary of State for the Colonies, the accompanying copy of a despatch relating to the work of the Malaria Commission in British Central Africa.

&c.,

am,

FRANCIS BERTIE.

Enclosure in No. 20.

LORD CURRIE to the MARQUESS OF SALISBURY.

(22: Commercial.)

MY LORD,

Rome, March 28, 1900. On the receipt of your Lordship's despatch, No. 20, of the 10th instant, I at once addressed a note to the Italian Government, asking for their assistance and good will in connection with the proposed erection of a mosquito-proof hut in the Roman Campagna, with a view to testing the protection which it would afford from malaria, and I mentioned the assurance recently conveyed to Mr. Patrick Manson by His Ex- cellency Signor Bacelli that facilities would be given to any Englishman appointed for the work in question.

I have now the honour to inform your Lordship that I have received a reply, stating that the Ministry of the Interior will give instructions to the local authorities to offer Dr. Patrick Manson all possible assistance in carrying out the investigations and experiments desired, and that on his arrival in Rome he should place himself in com- munication with the Inspector-General of Health.

The Marquess of Salisbury, K.G.;

I have, &c.,

CURRIE.

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(Central Africa. No. 278.)

MY LORD,

Enclosure in No. 19.

The Residency, Zomba, British Central Africa Protectorate,

Via Chinde, December 23, 1899.

I HAVE the honour to inform Your Lordship that Dr. C. W. Daniels, of the Commission sent out to study malaria in British Central Africa, has informed me that he considers he has distinctly established that a small black mosquito carries, and is probably the main agent in carrying, malaria, in the first instance at any rate, in this country.

As soon as Dr. Daniels has completed his investigations he will send his full report to his Committee.

I have, &c.,

ALFRED SHARPE,

Her Majesty's Commissioner and Consul-General.

The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.

10262.

6584.

No. 21.

MR. CHAMBERLAIN to the GOVERNORS OF THE GAMBIA, GOLD COAST, and LAGOS, and the HIGH COMMISSIONERS FOR NORTHERN NIGERIA and SOUTHERN NIGERIA.

SIR,

(Gambia. No. 25.)

(Gold Coast. No. 148.)

(Lagos. No, 115.)

(Northern Nigeria. No. 79.)

(Southern Nigeria. No. 95.)

Downing Street, April 3, 1900.

I HAVE the honour to transmit to you the enclosed copy of a letter which has been addressed to this Department by the Malaria Investigation Committee relative to certain recommendations which the Colonial Surgeon of Sierra Leone recently sub- mitted for my consideration with a view to encouraging Colonial Medical Officers or. the West Coast of Africa in the scientific investigation of tropical disease.

2. I have to inform you that I concur in the views on this subject expressed by the Committee.

No. 20.

FOREIGN OFFICE to COLONIAL OFFICE.

(Received March 31, 1900.) [Answered by No. 27.]

6584.

No. 22.

I have, &c.,

J. CHAMBERLAIN.

Foreign Office, March 31, 1900. THE Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs presents his compliments to the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, and, with reference to the letter from the Colonial Office of the 5th instant,* is directed by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to transmit to him, to be laid before the Secretary of State for the Colonies, the accompanying paper, noted in the margin, respecting the proposed erection of a March 28 mosquito-proof hut in the Roman Campagna.

Lord

Currie,

1900, 22.

Com-

mercial.

• No. 15.

(No. 81.)

SIR,

SIERRA LEONE.

MR. CHAMBERLAIN to GOVERNOR SIR F. CARDEW.

Downing Street, April 3, 1900. I HAVE the honour to transmit to you, with reference to the second paragraph of my despatch, No. 295, of the 14th of December last, the enclosed copy of corre spondence with the Malaria Investigation Committee relative to certain recommen- dations recently made by the Colonial Surgeon of Sierra Leone with a view of encour- aging Colonial Medical Officers in the scientific investigation of tropical diseases.

No. 13.

† 28242: not printed. No. 265 in Miscellaneous No. 119, and No. 13`in this book.

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