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3. I approve of the suggestion, contained in the sixth paragraph of your de- spatch, that small nets for camp beds should be kept as Government stores in the hospitals at all stations, and issued to officers about to travel in the bush, to be returned by them on rejoining their stations.

4. I also approve of your proposal to send a foreman of works to Lagos to study and report on the measures adopted there for the purpose of preventing or diminishing malaria, and shall be glad to learn the result of such mission or of any further action that may have been taken in the matter.

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SIR,

No. 84.

I have, &c.,

J. CHAMBERLAIN.

CROWN AGENTS to COLONIAL OFFICE.

(Received April 26, 1902.)

[Answered by No. 85.]

Malarial Fever Commission.

Downing Street, London, April 25, 1902. WITH reference to your letter, No. 30259/1901,* of the 5th September last, and to previous correspondence, I have the honour to enclose, in original, to be returned, a letter and its enclosurest which we have received from Messrs. H. S. King and Co., Agents for Dr. J. W. W. Stephens, of the Malaria Fever Commission, and I have to request the instructions of the Secretary of State as to the payment of the claim made by Dr. Stephens.

I have, &c.,

M. A. CAMERON,

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Messrs. Shelford and Son, MM.I.C.E., to conduct an experimental investigation on the subject of the durability and most suitable dimensions of the various kinds of wire gauzes.

now have the honour to enclose, for your information, a copy of the 'report* 10/9/01 with which they have furnished us stating the result of their enquiry. We also obtained from a number of Colonial Governments the opinions of various experienced officers as to what quality and size of gauze was found most effective in excluding mosquitoes and at the same time permitting a free supply of air.

3. In view of the information so obtained and acting under the instructions of the Secretary of State, we invited tenders for quantities of 10,000 square feet-in 3 feet widths-of both brass and tinned-steel netting, with the result that it was found that the best quotation for adoption was one of the following:-

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(1.) Brass (16 mesh and 30 B.W.G)—2.42d. per square foot. (2) Tinned Steel (16 mesh and 30 B.W.G.)-2.00d. per square foot. These prices, though stated to be for quantifies of 10,000 square feet, will, subject to fluctuations in the market price of the materials concerned, apply to any smaller quantities that may be ordered, and are considerably lower than Messrs. Burrowes' tender for cop bronze, which was at 4.09d. per square foot.

4. For your further information, I also enclose one sample of each kind of gauze Brass. recommended.

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Tinned

We are now prepared to execute indents for wire netting of this nature and, Steel. for convenience of reference, we would suggest that the material should be described

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"Standard" Brass Gauze,

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and Standard Tinned Steel Gauze,

I have, &c.,

(Unsigned.)

in any indents that may be sent to us.

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GENTLEMEN,

No. 85.

COLONIAL OFFICE to CROWN AGENTS:

Downing Street, May 6, 1902.

I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Chamberlain to inform you, in reply to your letter of the 25th of April, that he approves of your paying, from the Malaria Com- mission funds, the sum of Rs. 826.8 claimed on behalf of Dr. J. W. W. Stephens by his agents, Messrs. H. S. King and Co.

2. The enclosures in your letter are returned herewith.

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No. 86.

I am, &c.,

R. L. ANTROBUS.

THE LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE to COLONIAL

SIR,

OFFICE.

(Received June 18, 1902.)

[Answered by No. 88.]

B 10, Exchange Buildings, Liverpool, June 16, 1902.

I HAVE the honour to inform you that the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine has arranged to send out an Expedition-the eighth equipped by the School-to study Trypanosoma, Filariasis, and Malaria, in the Gambia and Senegal in August.

The Expedition will consist of Dr. J. E. Dutton, Walter Myers Fellow in Tropical Medicine, and Dr. J. L. Tod, of McGill University, Montreal,

It is also hoped that a French Scientist will be officially attached to the Expedition. The Committee of the School would be greatly obliged for any assistance that His Majesty's Government may feel disposed to render to the Expedition, especially in the matter of procuring quarters for them, either at Bathurst or some other suitable locality in the Gambia.

I am to enclose a cutting from the Standard on the subject of the Expedition.

I have, &c.,

A. H. MILNE,

SIR,

CROWN AGENTS to COLONIAL OFFICE.

Office of the Crown Agents for the Colonies,

Downing Street, London, S.W., May 27, 1902. THE Secretary of State in his circular despatch of the 20th April, 1901, § on the subject of the connection between malarial fever and mosquitoes, referred to several suggestions made by Lord Onslow's Committee, of which one was :-

(A) That the Crown Agents for the Colonies be required to arrange that a supply of suitable wire gauze and mosquito netting is available, patterns of which should be easily accessible."

2. Acting upon this suggestion we took steps to ascertain what was the most suitable quality of gauze, and on the advice of Dr. P. Manson, F.R.S., we instructed

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Enclosure in No. 87.

Honorary Secretary.

EXTRACT from the "STANDARD," June 12, 1902.

THE SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE.

Renter's Liverpool Correspondent writes:-

During the researches of the Seventh Expedition of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, which visited the Gambin in the summer and autumn of last year, an important discovery was made of the animal parasito Trypanosoma.' It was then discovered that the presence of this parasite in

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