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2. Mr. Chamberlain would be much obliged if you would draw up an indent for the wire gauze and fumigating material required by Brigadier-General Lugard, for transmission to the Crown Agents for the Colonies.

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19860.

SIR,

No. 71.

I am, &c.,

C. P. LUCAS.

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COLONIAL OFFICE to THE SEAMEN'S HOSPITAL SOCIETY.

Downing Street, September 18, 1900. In reply to your letters of the 27th November, 1899, and the 22nd June last,* regarding the admission of officers in the Colonial Service as paying patients in the hospitals of the Seamen's Hospital Society, I am directed by Mr. Secretary Chamber- lain to acquaint you that he concurs in the arrangements assented to by your letter of the 27th November last, and that he will communicate them to the Governors of all tropical Colonies.

I am to express Mr. Chamberlain's regret that, through an oversight in this De- partment, there has been delay in answering your letters.

I am, &c.,

R. L. ANTROBUS.

No. 73.

COLONIAL OFFICE to CROWN AGENTS.

Downing Street, September 19, 1900.

GENTLEMEN,

I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Chamberlain to inform you, with reference to the letter from this Department of the 4th of September,* that Dr. Sambon has asked that a further sum of money may be issued to him to nicet the expenses connected with the investigations into the question of malaria which are being conducted by him and Dr. Low in the Roman Canipagna.

2. The total sum which it has been decided to allot from the Malaria Commission Fund for the carrying out of the investigations is, as stated in the letter from this Department of the 5th of March,† £500, and of this sum the following portion has already been expended, namely:-

£ s. d.

Advance to Dr. Sambon, authorized by Colonial

Office letter of 9th Mayt

Cost of hut erected in the Campagna Charges for conveyance of hut, &c., payment au- thorized by Colonial Office letters of 23rd June and 21st July§......

Further advance to Dr. Sambon, authorized by

Colonial Office letter of 4th September*

Total

100 0 0 219 14 11

61 19

5

50 0 0

431 14 4

I am, &c.

R. L. ANTROBUS.

3. There remains, therefore, an unexpended balance of £68 5s. 8d., and I am to request you to pay that amount to Dr. Sambon.

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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

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19860

No. 72.

MR. CHAMBERLAIN to THE GOVERNORS OF TROPICAL COLONIES.†

SIR,

(Circular.)

[Answered, Jamaica, by No. 79.]

Downing Street, September 19, 1900.

I HAVE been in communication with the Seamen's Hospital Society as to the con- ditions under which officers in the service of the Colonies suffering from tropical ail- ments can be admitted as paying patients to the Society's hospitals; and I have now the honour to acquaint you that the Board of that Society are prepared to receive into the hospitals, at rates varying according to circumstances from one guinea to two guineas a week, officers in the Colonial Services, whose cases the medical staff consider to be suitable for treatment as tropical cases within the wards of a hospital in which tropical diseases are specially treated, provided that their salaries are under £400 per annum. Officers in receipt of a salary of £400 per annum and upwards would not be admitted unless under very exceptional circumstances.

I have caused the Society to be informed that the Secretary of State will guaran- tee the payments due from any officer in the service of the Colonies who may be admitted to the hospitals, provided that admission at the privileged rates is made in cach case with his knowledge and sanction. It will then be possible to arrange, if necessary, that deductions to cover the cost of the hospital treatment shall be made from the officer's salary.

I have, &c.,

J. CHAMBERLAIN.

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No. 74.

DR. P. MANSON to COLONIAL OFFICE. (Received September 24, 1900.)

21, Queen Anne Street, Cavendish Square,

SIR,

September 24, 1900. THE experiments based on the mosquito-malaria theory which have been instituted by representatives of the Colonial Office and the London School of Tropical Medicine have reached such a stage and have proved so successful that I venture to submit that the time has come for energetic practical action based on this theory.

The experiments I refer to are so simple and so convincing that their practical application must receive the hearty co-operation of every intelligent European in tropical countries.

I would make the following suggestions, with reference to Malarial Colonies and Protectorates:-1st. That all new buildings, so far as practicable, be located on high ground, away from native quarters, clear of jungle, and at a distance from stagnant

waters.

2nd. That all such buildings be constructed with special reference to being made mosquito-proof by means of fixed wire gauze screens and bars which should close in all verandalis and windows and ventilators. Doors should be similarly protected and be made self-closing and, in the case of doors opening to the outside, double. 3rd. That existing Government buildings be similarly protected so far as their structure permits.

4th. That all rooms be provided with special means for the destruction of such mosquitos as may have obtained an entrance through defective protection.

5th. That special provision for protection from mosquito bite be made in all river steamers by which Government servants travel.

• Nos. 1 and 53.

tie., West African, West Indian, Eastern, and Fiji.

• No. 68.

↑ No. 16.

‡ No. 32.

§ 19386 and 22134: not printed.

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON

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