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Special Teaching Staff.

Special facilities for

Research

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numerous examples illustrative of tropical diseases, such as malaria and bilharzia. The Museum is not large enough for its present requirements, and it is contemplated to im modiately enlarge it if funds are forthcoming, in order to have a block in it devoted entirely to specimens illustrating tropical affections. There is a separate large bac- teriological laboratory, fitted with every appliance: an incubator room, a centrifuge and bacterial mill room, a refrigerator room, a laboratory of chemical pathology, and photographic roonis. There is at present, therefore, ample facilities for the general class and research work requisite at the present day.

There will be a special Lectureship in Tropical Diseases, and it is hoped to obtain for the purpose the services of a gentleman who has devoted his life to the study of tropical 'discases. His lectures will be illustrated by lantern slides, diagrams, and reference to the cases in the Tropical Diseases Ward.

There will be a Demonstrator of Tropical l'athology, whose time will be wholly given to tropical pathology, and who will teach both in the ward laboratory and in the Thompson-Yates Laboratory.

Not only can research be conducted in the laboratory, but it is proposed to grant facilities for studying tropical diseases on the spot, by organising expeditions to the tropics. Many of the Liverpool students are now working in Africa and other coun- in Tropical tries. Dr. Christophers, late Assistant in the Pathological Laboratory, has just been Pathology. appointed by the Royal Commission to proceed to the study of malaria in Africa. It will materially assist the work of these gentlenen in Africa by their having ready com. munication with a centre in Liverpool.

Residence.

Com-

mittee.

Duties of

Com- mittée.

Appoint-

ment of Lecturer.

Staff.

As many of the gentlemen who will take up the study of Tropical Diseases will probably come from a distance, it is proposed to offer special residential accommodation in the Royal Southern Hospital. In the meantime, accommodation will be ready in residential chambers within easy reach of the College and Hospital.

Enclosure 2 in No. 150.

REPORT OF THE TROPICAL DISEASES COMMITTEE (Liverpool), in connection with University College and the Royal Southern Hospital.

There are already in connection with University College, Schools of Art, of Law, and of Hygiene. Following the analogy of these schools, the Committee suggest the formation of a permanent Joint Committee to manage the School, and to be called the Committee of the Liverpool School of Tropical Diseases.

Such a Committee should include:-

Representatives of merchants and shipowners of Liverpool, viz. :-

1. (a) Two representatives nominated by the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce. (b) Two representatives nominated by the Steamship Owners' Association. (c) Two representatives nominated by the Sailing Ship Owners' Association. 2. Two representatives nominated by the Committee of Management of the

Royal Southern Hospital.

3. Two representatives nominated by the Staff of the Royal Southern Hospital. 4. Two representatives nominated by the Council of University College. 5. Two representatives nominated by the Senate of University College. This Committee should have the general management of the School in accordance with a scheme to be agreed upon by the College and the Hospital, should be responsible for the administration of the funds available for the School, and should nominate, for appointment by the authorities of the College and the Hospital, those members of the Staff of the School who did not hold office "ex officio" in virtue of other appointments.

As to the Lecturer in Tropical Diseases, it is important that the Committee of the School should be in a position to contemplate the possibility of a gentleman being appointed to this post who is not a member of the Staff of the Hospital. The Committee suggest that arrangements might be made whereby the Lecturer for Tropical Diseases should be appointed Consulting Physician for Tropical Diseases to the Royal Southern Hospital, and thus have access to the cases in the Hospital.

The Staff should consist of the following members:-

1. Ex officio: The Physicians of the Hospital.

The Surgeons of the Hospital.

The Professor of Pathology.

The Hospital Tutor.

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2. Members nominated by the Committee

The Lecturer in Tropical Diseases. The Demonstrator of Tropical Pathology.

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Qualifica-

Must be qualified medical men of this or foreign countries, or 5th years' students. tions of In other circumstances special application must be made.

Students, At the end of the course an examination will be held, and a certificate will be Certificate awarded to successful candidates.

of Tropical

Diseases.

The Committee recommend that :-

1. The Lecturer in Tropical Diseases receive a salary of not less than £100 per

annum and some share of the students' fees.

Finance.- A.-

Annual

2. That the Demonstrator of Tropical Pathology receive a salary of £200 per Expendi-

annum.

3. That an annual sum of £100 be allowed for expenses in connection with the

Special Ward and Laboratory of the Hospital.

4. That for the expenses connected with the Laboratory Course at University

College, an annual sum of £75 be allowed.

5. That for expenses connected with the Tropical Diseases Museum, an

annual sum of £25 be granted.

ture.

The total of the annual expenditure is £500. The Committee are of opinion that to meet the cost of printing and other incidental expenses an additional sum of £100 a year should be provided, thus making the total necessary annual sum necessary to carry the scheme into effect, £600.

Sum

to carry Scheme

B.-

Additional buildings are needed at the Hospital and College. The Committee into effect. think that their scheme should be regarded in the character of a national undertaking— that it should receive national as well as local support. The Hospital are owners of a Capital large and very eligible site in immediate contiguity to the present institution, which Outlay. they are willing to devote to the purpose the Committee have in view. It is felt that for the erection of buildings worthy of the reputation of the city and of the reputation which they believe this School will speedily attain, a capital expenditure of from £6,000 to £10,000 will be required for building purposes. Similarly, in connection with the Thompson-Yates Laboratories, requisite space for additional accommodation in connec- tion with the Museum of Pathology and Museum work-room can be provided in part of the old buildings of the Medical School adjacent to the present Museum, at a capital expenditure of £2,500.

In order that the work of the School may be carried on with effect, the Committee think it of the utmost importance that the Government should recognize its courses of

Govern- study and certificates, and that the School should thus be placed in this respect on an recogni-

ment equality with any other School of Tropical Diseases that may be established in London tion." or elsewhere. The Committee point out that gentlemen intending to take up appoint- ments in the Colonies, either under the Government or in civil positions, or to become medical officers of ships trading to tropical countries, and others who might wish to avail themselves of the advantages afforded by the School, would probably hesitate to do so if they felt that a certificate, carrying with it what would appear to be a Govern- ment recognition of superiority, was to be obtained exclusively elsewhere.

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No. 151.

COLONIAL OFFICE to KING'S COLLEGE. [Answered by No. 153.]

SIR,

Downing Street, January 7, 1899. I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Chamberlain to inform you, with reference to the letter from this Office of the 23rd of December last,* that he has carefully considered your letters of the 22nd November and the 5th Decembert and their enclosures, and that he has come to the conclusion that, in selecting candidates for the Colonial Medical Service, preference should be given (otler things being equal) to those doctors who

* No. 111.

† Nos. 105 and 123.