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Miscellaneous
No. 143.
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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
Reference :-
C.O. 885
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Memorandum respecting proposed Government assistance to the London School of Tropical
Medicine.
in February, 1898, Mr. Chamberlain, with the object of affording instruction in tropical medicine to inedical officers in the Colonial Service, invited the Seamen's Hospital Society to establish a school in connexion with one of their hospitals.
The hospital selected was the branch hospital near the Royal Victoria and Albert Docks, which offered advantages probably greater than were to be found in any other part of the kingdom, as ships arrive at the docks from all parts of the tropics in larger numbers than elsewhere, and the proximity of the hospital to the docks allows of immediate admission, and thus affords ready opportunity for the treatment of patients, and for the observation and study of tropical diseases in their acute stages.
The number of beds in the hospital at the time was eighteen. and, the Society proposed to increase the accommodation, both for the purpose of providing additional material for the school, and also to avoid the necessity of sending patients who could not be received at the branch hospital a distance of six miles to their chief hospital at Greenwich.
Steps were accordingly taken to enlarge the branch hospital (which now contains fifty beds) and build the school. The necessary funds have been provided, partly by the Government, and partly by private subscribers. The state- ment of account up to the present time is as follows:-
Dr.
School buikling, furniture, and
equipment.
...
Enlargement of hospital
Cost of raising funds
s. d.
...
6,676 0 1 16,097 16 11
1,143 0 7
Expenses connected with Sir
F. Lovell's mission....
633 6 0
£24,550 3 7
50 0 37% We 17897 2683 D** 3 B020
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