| Reference number | CMB/50/26 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Minutes, meeting of the Tropical Diseases Committee |
| Date | 27 July 1905 |
| Description | Lists members present. Gives committee business -- 1. The signing of the previous meeting's minutes. 2. A letter from Prof Minchin, and a resolution that he be authorised to prolong his stay in Uganda. 3. Consideration of the reports of the Sleeping Sickness Commission and a decision to thank Capt Grieg and Mr Gray 'for their valuable services'. 4. Adoption of a report from the Malta Fever Committee and a resolution that the Secretary should communicate the discovery [of the fever-causing bacteria] in goat's milk to the Colonial Office. 5. A letter from the Colonial Office regarding 'one of the Indian Contingent in the Uganda Protectorate who is suffering from trypanosome disease' and the decision to tell the India Office about the danger of carrying the disease into India. 6. A report of Major Ross pointing out a passage in the Journal of Tropical Medicine stating that 'Dr Castellini...found the trypanosome in the cerebro-spinal fluid of cases of sleeping sickness' and Sir Patrick Manson's decision to make sure there would be 'a correction of this statement in a future number of the Journal'. p34. |
| Extent | 2pp |
| Format | Typescript copy |
| Access status | Open |
| Related material | CMB/14; CMB/15 Minutes of the Malaria Committee |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | Name | Dates |
| NA1683 | Manson; Sir; Patrick (1844 - 1922) | 1844 - 1922 |