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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

Reference :-

TPIEC.O. 885

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Cr.

2

Amounts received from Govern. ment and private subscribers up to December, 1901

Leaving a debit balance of

8. d.

24,201 5

*

348 18 3

2,049 8

4

400 () 0

Receipts from 1st of January,

1902, up to date Expenditure for the saine

period, about

Of the amount received from the Govern- ment, a sum of £3,700 was contributed by the Colonies and the Imperial Government (on behalf of the Foreign Office Protectorates) and a sum of £1,000 by the Indian Government. The total amount which the Government has contributed directly (... independently of the fees derived from their officers who attend the school for instruction) to the expense of the scheme-say £25,000-has therefore been less than £5,000, or less than 20 per cent. The rest has been contributed by private subscribers, mainly as the result of the banquet at which Mr. Chamberlain presided in May, 1899, and of Sir F. Lovell's recent mission to the East to obtain subscriptions,

The school was opened on the 2nd October, 1899, and, during the period from 2nd October, 1899. to 31st July, 1902, 234 students have passed through the school, viz.:—

From British Government Service :-

Colonial Office

87

Foreign Office

10

Indian Medical Staff

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Royal Army Medical Corps...

1

Royal Navy

...

3

109

British private students, missionaries, &c. Foreign Government Service

93

11

Foreign private students

21

Total

...

234

work may be gathered from the fact that their

93 average attendance at lectures and demonstra- tions has been over 90 per cent.

The appliances in the school are of the most modern character, and the constant attendance

of the medical superintendent and tutor ensures that all special diseases will be demonstrated and investigated as opportunity arises. Bacterio- logy and animal parasitology, so far as they concern the special clinical work, are systematic- ally taught pathological anatomy is demon- strated in the laboratory and in the post-mortem room as opportunity offers, and practical instruc- tion is given in the most approved methods of mounting microscopical preparations, &c.

At-

one of the meetings of the Committee of Management, at which I was present, Dr. Stephen Mackenzie, Senior Physician of the London Hospital, said, in speaking only of the syllabus of the lectures and demonstrations at the school, that it was "a liberal education in itself.”

If the instruction is good, the material for instruction is abundant, as will be seen from the following table, which only gives a list of the more important cases of tropical disease admitted into the branch hospital during a period of about two years from the date of the opening of the school. :

Acnte malaria Chronic malaria

Dysentery

Beri-beri

Liver abscess

Leprosy

Guinea wormh

Filariasis

Blackwater fever

Plague

Malta fever

Hepatitis

Bilharzia

81

7

62

...

43

1!

10

6

-

G

5

6

247

From this it will be seen that nearly 40 per cent, of the students were doctors in the service of this department, and this percentage would have been much higher were it not for the fact that it has been so difficult to obtain doctors for West Africa during the South African war that we have been compelled to send out most of those whom we have been able to obtain without giving them the usual preliminary course of instruction at the school. Some idea of the interest which the students have shown in their

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The staff, which consists of nine lecturers in addition to the medical superintendent and tutor, is excellent. Among its members are. Dr. Manson, one of the greatest living authorities on tropical disease. Dr. Cantlie, Editor of the paper Tropical Disease," Dr. Sambon, the head of the Malaria Expedition to the Campagna, Dr. Daniels (Medical Superintendent and Tutor), the senior member of the Malaria Commission appointed by the Colonial Office and the Royal Society, and other doctors who have had great experience of tropical disease.

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