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33866
SIR,
No. 163.
MALTA.
COLONIAL OFFICE to WAR OFFICE.
[Answered by No. 164.]
Downing Street, October 8, 1904. I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Lyttelton to transmit to you, with reference to 'your letter of the 30th of August, a copy of a lettert from Colonel David Bruce, R.A.M.C., in which he asks that the subsistence allowance granted to him while absent from England in connection with the investigation of Mediterranean fever, may be increased to 30s. a day.
2. I am to enquire what is the rate of subsistence allowance which Colonel Bruce received, and to inform you that, if the Army Council agree, Mr. Lyttelton would have no objection, subject to the concurrence of the Treasury and the Admiralty, to the grant of the increase asked for, the cost to be apportioned equally between War Office, Admiralty, and Malta funds.
I am, &c.,
36284
No. 164.
MALTA.
H. BERTRAM COX.
day, a sum equal to that drawn by Dr. R. W. Johnstone, the representative of the Local Government Board.
2. It will be seen that the Army Council agree to the increase applied for, and I am to enquire if the Lords Commissioners of the
Treasury
Admiralty I am, &c.,
concur.
H. BERTRAM COX.
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(No. 218.)
SIR,
No. 166. BARBADOS.
ACTING GOVERNOR KNAGGS to MR. LYTTELTON. (Received November 3, 1904.)
Government House, October 17, 1904. I HAVE the honour to report that, on receipt of your despatch, No. 122, of the 3rd of September, showing the contributions made by the other West Indian Colonies to the fund for promoting the investigation of tropical diseases, I again consulted the Executive Committee with the object of endeavouring to persuade them to send down a resolution to the Legislature recommending that Barbados should also give some assistance to the scheme.
2. I regret to state that the Committee adhered to their former opinion that, in the present condition of the Colony's finances it was impossible to hope that any proposal to contribute to the fund would meet with success, and that it was there- fore advisable to postpone for the present any action in the matter.
3. I will suggest to the Governor to again bring the question up for considera- tion when the Estimates for 1905-6 are being framed.
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SIR,
WAR OFFICE to COLONIAL OFFICE.
(Received October 21, 1904.)
[Answered by No. 172.]
War Office, London, S.W., October 20, 1904. I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 8th instant (No. 33866/1904) with which you enclose a letter from Colonel David Bruce, Royal Army Medical Corps, asking that the subsistence allowance granted to him while absent from England in connection with the investigation of Mediterranean fever may be increased to 30s. a day, a sum equal to that drawn by Dr. R. W. Johnstone, the representative of the Local Government Board.
In reply I am directed to inform you, for the information of Mr. Secretary Lyttel- ton, that, as Director of Research, it is felt that Colonel Bruce should be granted sub- gistence allowance at a rate not less than that of any other of the officers conducting the any rate investigation, and that this Department is willing to bear its proportion of for which Treasury approval may be obtained.
Colonel Bruce has so far received no subsistence allowance from this office, but under the regulations for the allowances for the Army is only entitled by his rank to 15s. diem for the first seven days and 103. diem afterwards.
per
per
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SIR,
No. 165.
MALTA.
I am, &c.,
E. W. D. WARD.
COLONIAL OFFICE to TREASURY and ADMIRALTY.
[Answered, Treasury, by No. 168.]
Downing Street, November 1/1904.
I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Lyttelton to transmit to you a copy of corre spondences relative to an application by Colonel David Bruce, R.A.M.C., asking that the subsistence allowance granted to him while absent from England in con- nection with the investigation of Mediterranean fever may be increased to 30s. a
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• No. 150.
NOR. 162, 163, and 164.
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SIR,
No. 167.
I have, &c.,
S. W. KNAGGS.
INDIA OFFICE to COLONIAL OFFICE. (Received November 10, 1904.)
[Answered by No. 170.]
India Office, Whitehall, London, S.W., November 10, 1904.
I AM directed by the Secretary of State for India in Council to reply to your letter, No. 28181, dated 8th June,† on the subject of the establishment of a fund for the promotion of further research into the origin and propagation of tropical diseases.
I am to say that, after communicating with the Government of India, Mr. Secretary Brodrick has decided to contribute from Indian revenues the sum of £500 a year for five years to the general fund which the Colonial Office has established.
In paragraph 5 of your letter above referred to, it was stated that the constitu- tion of the Board to advise the Secretary of State for the Colonies as to the disposal of the fund was under consideration. I am to suggest that in view of the interest which India has in the investigations proposed to be undertaken, and of the import- ance of preventing the researches conducted in India from overlapping those investigations, one, if not two, representatives of that country should, if Mr. Secre- tary Lyttelton has no objection, be added to the Board. If two representatives were given to India, one of them might be a medical officer, and the other a man of Indian administrative experience.
It has been suggested that, in order to indicate that India is interested in the objects of the fund, the fund might be styled "The Colonial and Indian Tropical Diseases Research Fund." Mr. Secretary Brodrick, however, does not wish to press this suggestion, as there may be objections to it of which he is unaware.
I have, &o.,
* L.F., transmitting a copy of No. 151.
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HORACE WALPOLE.
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