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your transferring from the funds in your hande belonging to the Governments of the Straits Settlements and Sierra Leone to the fund for the School of Tropical Medicine and the Malarial Fever Commission the sums of $5,000 and £150 respectively, representing, in the case of the Straits Settlements, the full amount, and, in the case of Sierra Leone, the first of two equal instalments, to be contributed to the above fund.
11490.
No. 198.
NATAL.
I am, &c.,
R. L. ANTROBUS,
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GOVERNOR SIR W. F. HELY-HUTCHINSON to MR. CHAMBERLAIN.
(Natal. No. 39.)
(Received May 8, 1899.)
Government House, Pietermaritzburg, Natal,
SIR,
April 12, 1899. WITH reference to your circular despatch of 15th December last,*I have the honour to transmit a copy of a notice which Ministers propose to publish in conjunc- tion with the circular despatch, inviting medical practitioners throughout Natal to forward pathological specimens, photographs, parasites, or other material likely to be of value for teaching purposes at the proposed School of Tropical Medicine in London.
2. In addition to this, Ministers are making arrangements for the collection, by the Principal Veterinary Surgeon's Department, of the insects referred to in the last paragraph of your despatch, and for their transmission to the Natural History Branch of the British Museum.
I have, &c.,
WALTER HELY-HUTCHINSON.
Enclosure in No. 198.
School of Tropical Medicine, London.
THE medical practitioners of the Colony of Natal are invited to forward to the Secretary of the Natal Medical Council, 147, Pietermaritz Street, Pietermaritzburg, any pathological specimens, photographs, parasites, or other material likely to be of value for teaching purposes at the above proposed school; and he will undertake to forward them to London. Full notes of the cases with which the specimens, &c., are connected should accompany them.
As will be seen from the appended memorandum received from Mr. Chamberlain, the Imperial Government is taking great interest in this school, and the Medical Council of Natal commends it to the good offices of the members of the medical pro- fession here.
D. CAMPBELL, Watt,
Secretary,
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2. Mr. Chamberlain thinks that there may be some misconception as to the proposals which he has made, and he desires me to explain that it is his intention that in selecting medical officers preference shall be given to those who have been trained in such schools as that of Edinburgh, where the special study of tropical diseases is encouraged. This amounts to the recognition by Government of those schools such as is suggested in your letter.
3. When the doctors have been appointed he has contemplated that before going out to the Colony or Protectorate for which they have been selected, they should spend not less than two months at the London School of Tropical Medicine in order to gain additional information and the practical experience which can only be obtained where there is a full supply of tropical diseases. They will also be brought into direct communication with other colonial medical officers at what would naturally be, if only from proximity to the Colonial Office, the headquarters of the new system; but this additional training is not intended in any way to override or to supersede what has already been given, and, as already stated, it will succeed, not precede, selection for a colonial appointment.
4. The above is Mr. Chamberlain's present intention and he does not propose to modify it until the new system is in working order, but the scheme will in, say, a year's time, be reconsidered in the light of experience, and you may rest assured that the Secretary of State has no intention of in any way discouraging such efforts as are being made at Edinburgh and elsewhere to promote the object which he has in view.
8648.
No. 200.
I am, &c.,
C. P. LUCAS,
COLONIAL OFFICE to CROWN AGENTS.
[Answered by 15348; not printed.]
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GENTLEMEN,
Downing Street, May 12, 1899. Wrri reference to the letter from this Department of 15th February last,* I am directed by Mr. Secretary Chamberlain to request you to ascertain from the authorities of the Seamens' Hospital, Albert Docks, whether expenditure to the amount of £3,550 has yet been incurred in enlarging and furnishing the Hospital in connection with the establishment of the School of Tropical Medicine, and to inform them that on their forwarding to you a certificate that this is the case, you are authorized to pay that amount to them.
2. I am also to request that when this payment is made, which will be chargeable to the special account which you have opened for the School of Tropical Medicine and to which it is understood you have credited the sum of £1,775 out of the amounts agreed to be contributed by the Colonies in response to Mr. Chamberlain's circular despatches on the subject as well as the sum of £1,775 paid over by this Department on 30th March last, you will render such account to this Department, with a view to its being transmitted to the Controller and Auditor-General.
Lam. &c.,
Natal Medical Council.
11490.
C. P. LUCAS.
10614.
No. 199.
COLONIAL OFFICE to DR. ANDREW DAVIDSON.
SIR,
Downing Street, May 11, 1899. I am directed by Mr. Secretary Chamberlain to acknowledge with thanks the receipt of your letter of the 25th ultimo,† and to express the pleasure with which he has learnt of the facilities being given by the University of Edinburgh for the study of tropical diseases, and of your own selection to the new Lectureship in that subject.
† No. 189.
No. 131a.
ŠIR,
No. 201.
NATAL
COLONIAL OFFICE to BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY).
Downing Street, May 20, 1899.
In continuation of the letter from this Department of the 13th April, † I am directed by Mr. Secretary Chamberlain to acquaint you that a despatch has been re- ceived from the Governor of Natal reporting that his Ministers are making arrange-
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