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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
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C.O. 885
SIR,
COLONIAL OFFICE to WAR OFFICE and ADMIRALTY.
Downing Street, March 22, 1906. Wrra reference to the letter from this Department of the 20th of December last, I am directed by the Earl of Elgin, to transmit to you, to be laid before the
Army Council Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty
the accompanying certified statement† of expenditure for the December quarter of 1905 which has been defrayed from Malta funds in connection with the Mediterranean Fever Commission.
2. I am to request that one-third of the total amount, viz., £89 4s., may be
Army funds paid from
to the Crown Agents for the Colonies, for the credit of the Navy funds Government of Malta.
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No. 152.
I am, &c.,
H. BERTRAM, COX.
THE EARL OF ELGIN to GOVERNOR SIR C. M. CLARKE.
(No. 39.) SIR,
[Answered by No. 159.]
Downing Street, March 22, 1906.
I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch, No. 37, of the 8th of March, and to transmit to you, for your information, copy of a letter§ which has been addressed in similar terms to the War Office and Admiralty on the subject of expenditure incurred by the Malta Government in connection with the Mediterranean Fever Commission.
2. I presume that the claim for 14s. 9d. from the War Office as an "amount twice charged to Army funds" is due to an inadvertence, as that payment was made in accordance with your despatch, No. 129, of the 20th of July last,|| as a refund of a previous overcharge.
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No. 153.
I have, &c.,
ELGIN.
WAR OFFICE to COLONIAL OFFICE. (Received March 27, 1906.)
War Office, London, S.W., March 26, 1906. I AM commanded by the Army Council to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of 10th instant, No. 7961, forwarding a copy of a letter from the Royal Society concerning the composition of the Mediterranean Fever Commission.
In reply, I am to acquaint you that the Society's recommendations for the despatch of three Royal Army Medical Corps Officers to continue the work carried on by Lieutenant-Colonel H. M. Davies and Major W. H. Horrocks will be met, and Majors T. McCulloch, J. C. Weir, and J. G. McNaught, Royal Army Medical Corps, will proceed to Malta at an early date.
I am to state that Captain Kennedy, Royal Army Medical Corps, will not be moved from Malta before next winter.
I am to add that the Army Council concur în the further recommendations of the Royal Society.
I am, &c.,
R. H. BRADE.
No. 154.
GOVERNOR SIR C. M. CLARKE to THE EARL OF ELGIN
(Received March 28, 1906.)
(Confidential.) MY LORD,
The Palace, Valletta, March 23, 1906. I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Your Lordship's confidential despatch of the 3rd instant,* on the subject of the proposal of the Royal Society that an English Medical Officer of Health should be sent to Malta, at the expense of this Government, for the purpose of re-organizing the system of notifying disease.
2. As I have already reported in-my confidential despatch of the 6th July last, † the scheme for the general re-organization of the Sanitary Department, which was approved in Mr. Lyttelton's despatch, No. 15, of the 11th February, 1904,‡ is being gradually brought into operation. The Medical Officer of Health referred to in paragraph 3 of my despatch quoted above has returned to Malta after obtaining the Diploma of Public Health, and has already taken up his duties in the Public Health Department; and another Medical Officer who is proceeding to England shortly, under the same scheme, in order to qualify for the Diploma of Public Health, will, in all probability, have passed the prescribed examinations and returned to the Colony early next year.
3. The island of Malta will be divided into three districts, each in charge of one of the Medical Officers of Health, and each district will be sub-divided into sections, which will be placed in charge of the District Medical Officers. Hitherto, the latter officers have given little or no assistance in sanitary matters, but it is proposed to appoint them Assistant Medical Officers of Health under the First Sanitary Ordinance, with the same powers as the Medical Officers of Health.
4.
The island of Gozo will form a fourth district under a separate Medical Officer of Health, and, like the three districts in Malta, will be divided into sections.
5. The ten First Class Sanitary Inspectors who will have been trained in England will be distributed among the four districts, and under them will be the ordinary Inspectors. There will, therefore, be a regular chain of responsibility from the Chief Government Medical Officer down to the lowest grade of Sanitary Inspector.
6. As regards the system of notifying disease, in which the Royal Society consider that reform is more particularly needed, I have already pointed out, in my despatcht quoted above, that it is proposed to pay a fee for each case of infectious disease reported, and it is hoped that this will serve as an inducement to private practitioners to report cases of infectious disease which come under their
notice.
7. In view of the circumstances indicated above, and of the fact that the expenditure involved in carrying out the suggestion of the Royal Society would fall on the Government of Malta, which, at the present time can ill afford to bear it, I regret that I am unable to concur in the suggestion which has been made.
I have &c.,
CHAS. M. CLARKE,
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No. 155.
COLONIAL OFFICE to ADMIRALTY. [See No. 156.]
Governor.
Downing Street, March 28, 1906. WITH reference to the letter from this Department of the 10th instant, § I am directed by the Earl of Elgin to transmit to you, to be laid before the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, copy of a letter from the Warmée on the subject of the Mediterranean Fever Commission.
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† Enclosure in No. 150.
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