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MANSON HOUSE. Since the last issue of the TRANSACTIONS the MANSONHOUSE FUND has shown some progress, the total now standing at £8,179 0s. 4d. The Council has great hopes that the interest in the scheme shown by LORD PASSFIELD, Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs and the Colonies, will be the means of still further increasing the fund. The following Despatch has been addressed by him to the Governments of the Colonies and the Protectorates, who, we hear, are in sympathy with the object of the appeal.
Downing Street, 28th March, 1930. SIR,
I have the honour to invite your favourable consideration of an appeal which is being made by the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene for funds to establish in London a memorial to the late Sir PATRICK MANSON. 2. I think it is hardly necessary for me to dwell upon the value and importance of the work of the late Sir PATRICK MANSON, to the Tropical Colonies in particular. The researches and practical measures in which he began to interest himself soon after entering medical practice in Hong Kong, were continued, as is well known, after his return to this country, and the wise and farreaching decision of Mr. JOSEPH CHAMBERLAINt o appoint him to the post of Medical Adviser to the Colonial Office in London began a great movement, the benefits of which are now fully apparent, but have by no means achieved their consummation. The debt which not only Europeans, but all others dwelling in the tropics owe to the work of Sir PATRICK MANSON is beyond appraisement, and any scheme for commemorating in permanent shape his character and achievements would naturally engage the particular interest of those concerned with their well-being. 3. It is proposed that the memorial shall take the form of a home for the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, which will serve, among other purposes, as a meeting place in London for officers of the Colonial Medical Service, at which these officials may discuss among themselves and with the other members of the Society the numerous problems of tropical pathology. Full details of the scheme are set out in the enclosed papers. 4. I do not doubt that the proposal will receive your warm sympathy, and I shall be glad to be furnished, in due course, with particulars of any financial contribution which your Government may feel able to make towards the memorial. I have the honour to be, Sir, Your most obedient, humble servant, PASSFIELD.
MANSON HOUSE. Since the last issue of the TRANSACTIONS the MANSONHOUSE FUND has shown some progress, the total now standing at £8,179 0s. 4d. The Council has great hopes that the interest in the scheme shown by LORD PASSFIELD, Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs and the Colonies, will be the means of still further increasing the fund. The following Despatch has been addressed by him to the Governments of the Colonies and the Protectorates, who, we hear, are in sympathy with the object of the appeal.
Downing Street, 28th March, 1930. SIR,
I have the honour to invite your favourable consideration of an appeal which is being made by the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene for funds to establish in London a memorial to the late Sir PATRICK MANSON. 2. I think it is hardly necessary for me to dwell upon the value and importance of the work of the late Sir PATRICK MANSON, to the Tropical Colonies in particular. The researches and practical measures in which he began to interest himself soon after entering medical practice in Hong Kong, were continued, as is well known, after his return to this country, and the wise and farreaching decision of Mr. JOSEPH CHAMBERLAINt o appoint him to the post of Medical Adviser to the Colonial Office in London began a great movement, the benefits of which are now fully apparent, but have by no means achieved their consummation. The debt which not only Europeans, but all others dwelling in the tropics owe to the work of Sir PATRICK MANSON is beyond appraisement, and any scheme for commemorating in permanent shape his character and achievements would naturally engage the particular interest of those concerned with their well-being. 3. It is proposed that the memorial shall take the form of a home for the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, which will serve, among other purposes, as a meeting place in London for officers of the Colonial Medical Service, at which these officials may discuss among themselves and with the other members of the Society the numerous problems of tropical pathology. Full details of the scheme are set out in the enclosed papers. 4. I do not doubt that the proposal will receive your warm sympathy, and I shall be glad to be furnished, in due course, with particulars of any financial contribution which your Government may feel able to make towards the memorial. I have the honour to be, Sir, Your most obedient, humble servant, PASSFIELD.