Description | Lists members present, with Mr Read attending on behalf of Mr Lucas of the Colonial Office. Lists committee business -- 1. The signing of the last meeting's minutes. 2. Consideration of a letter from the Colonial Office and the minutes of the Council. 3. Report from the Chairman that he and Col Bruce had taken steps to obtain the services of a zoologist, and the committee's recommendation that E A Minchin be sent to Uganda to work out the natural history of trypanasome and the [tsetse] fly, with a grant to be obtained from the Foreign Office and the Tropical Disease Research Fund. 4. A resolution to report on the spread of Sleeping Sickness to the Council and to urge a conference between Committee members and representatives from the Foreign and Colonial Offices. 5. Update on the progress of Dr Nabarro's report. 6. Decision not to publish a paper by Dr Christy. 7. Decision not to grant the cost of typing this paper. 8. Decision to decline Dr Christy's application that the 'Committee would support him in resisting a claim made upon him by the Crown Agents for the colonies in connection with maintenance allowance during his stay in Uganda'. 9. Decision to refer a report on sleeping sickness to Col Bruce. 10. Declining of an offer of assistance from Dr Dutton and Dr Todd. 11. Request that Dr Mott prepare a report on his examination of tissues from Uganda. 12. Col Bruce's report on the progress of the Mediterranean Fever investigation. 13. Resolution to appoint Captain J C Kennedy in Major Horrocks' place. 14. Decision against a proposal that the committee take over the duties of the Indian Government Advisory Committe on Diseases of Animals. 15. Consideration of letters from the Foreign Office. p21-25. |