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Summarising what has been said above, the following additional funds are urgently required for the school :-
(4) A lump sum of (say) £12,000 for new buildings.
(B) An annual revenue of £1,150, viz.:-
1. £600 for the two travelling scholarships
of £300 each.
2, £250 for additional salary for 'the
Medical Superintendent.
3. £200 for salary of new appointinent of
Assistant Medical Superintendent.
4. Salary of £100 a year for new appoint- ment of Curator of the museum and library.
(C) An annual pension of £115 a year for Dr. Daniels, commencing about three years hence. If the Combined Court of British Guiana agree to give Dr. Daniels the pension when he reaches the age of 55, or sooner if he becomes physically unfit, it will only be necessary to raise an annual sum of £115 from other sources for a period not exceeding 12 years. Also, it this pension is secured to Dr. Daniels it will be possible to reduce the sum of £250 in Item B 2 by a corresponding amount.
In addition to this,
(D) Some endowment is required for the teaching staff.
With regard to () it is hoped that the money can be provided partly by a contribution from the sum collected by Sir F. Lovell during his recent mission to the East, and partly from the contributions which may be expected as # result of the festival dinner next May or June.
With regard to (B) the colonies mentioned below have promised the following subsidies : —-
-Straits Settlements, £100 a year for five years
from 1st January, 1903.
Hong Kong, 100 a year for five years
from 1st January, 1903.
Federated Malay States, £100 a year for five years from 1st January, 1903. Ceylon, £100 a year for five years from
1st January, 1904.
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This leaves a sum of (say) £800 to be provided from other sources during the next five or six years, at the end of which periods we may hope that the school will have achieved such further success as will induce the foregoing colonies to continue their contributions, As the West African Colonies have most to gain by new discoveries with regard to tropical disease and an improved knowledge of tropical medicine, and as the school is more used by their medical
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officers than by those of other colonies, I would suggest that they should be asked to inake the following contributions for a period of six
years :--
Gold Coast Southern Nigeria Lagus
200
200
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200
Sierra Leone
100
Gambia
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100
£800
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Reference:-
C.O. 885
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I do not suggest an appeal to the West Indian Colonies, because many of them are in low water, and because there is some idea of sending Sir F. Lovell on a mission to them next year. He knows the West Indies well and is confident that he could obtain a considerable amount of money for the school from the Colonial Govern- ments and private individuals.
With regard to (C), I think that we might very well ask the Treasury to make this small contribution on behalf of the Exchequer-aided Protectorates in East Africa and elsewhere.
With regard to (D), this is a matter which must rest in abeyance for the present.
In conclusion, I should like to make a few general observations. This country was the first to take up seriously the teaching of tropical medicine and investigation of tropical diseases, and it ought to keep itself at the head of the movement. Germany has followed our example and established Government school in Hainburg, and the French are establishing Tropical Schools in Paris and Marseilles. The interests of Great Britain in tropical countries exceed those of any other country, and our Tropical School ought therefore to be the best equipped in the world. The future progress of many of our tropical possessions depends on our ability to cope successfully with the special diseases which at present hinder their develop- ment. The school is gradually becoming a centre for those interested in tropical diseases, and is perpetually increasing its sphere of nse- fulness. Sir F. Lovell tells me that, wherever he went in the East, he found doctors who recognised the advantages of the school and expressed their intention of taking a course when possible. Even officers of such standing and experience as Dr. Atkinson, the Principal Medical Officer of Hong Kong, und Dr. Travers, State Surgeon, Selangor, have been glad to go through a course of instruction at the school. Dr. Manson also mentions, as a significant fact, that the senior man at the school, who has been in the tropics and seen the value of the instruc- tion, shows much greater interest in his work
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