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Sent From (Definite): Thomas CarnwathSent To (Definite): Sydney Price JamesDate: 21 Aug 1936
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Sent fromThomas Carnwath
21 Aug 1936
Description:‘Col James,
CMO would no doubt be interested to have a short note on Col Sinton’s appointment and the arrangements made for him at Horton.
T.C. 21/8/36.’
[different hand:
S.P. James to ‘Deputy CMO,’ 26th Aug. 1936.
‘Deputy C.M.O.
Col. Sinton’s appointment followed the proposal which I made in the annexed copy of a letter to the Chairman of the Tropical Diseases Committee of the Royal Society dated 18th March this year. The arguments for him to work at Horton are noted; para (A) of the annexed copy of a Report adopted by teh Council of the Society on Jly 9
(The appointment does not affect the arrangement made by the Ministry with the London School of Hygiene for the routine supply of material for the practice of malariatherapy & Col. Sinton, of course, will have no concern with, or responsibility for, that part of the Horton ward.)
S.P.J. 26/8/36.’]
[attached to above:
S.P. James to J.C.G. Ledingham,
Following our conversation on Monday I should like to make a proposal at the meeting of the Tropical Diseases Committee to-morrow to the effect
“That the Medical Research (Anonymous) Fund be utilised for the promotion of research on malaria by inviting Col. Sinton, I.M.S., to become a whole-time research Commissioner on the subject under the direction of the Tropical Diseases Committee.”
It does not seem necessary to argue the point whether research on malaria is more important than research on any other tropical subject, but it is universally recognised that the prospects of successful practical research have been greatly brightened during recent years by three events of outstanding importance: (1) the application of the practice of malariatherapy to the study of malaria itself as well as for its original purpose; (2) the discovery of synthetic antimalarials which promise to be more effective than quinine; (3) the discovery that monkeys as well as canaries and other birds can be utilised for studying particular problems.
It is within the knowledge of most members of the Tropical Diseases Committee that the efforts which individual English workers have made to pursue research along any of these three promising lines have hitherto been greatly hampered by lack of money and staff and that repeated requests for assistance have been unavailing. The fact that more than 30 years ago the Royal Society considered research on malaria to be well worthy of support by appointing a special Malaria Committee to deal with the subject and sending research Commissioners to various countries affords a precedent for bringing the matter to notice again.
Yours sincerely,
(Sgd.) S.P. James.’]
[attached to above:
‘Report as adopted by the Council of the Royal Society, July 9, 1936.
Council Agenda – Item 13.
Report of the Tropical Diseases Committee.
The Committee has met three times and has considered various schemes for the use of the Medical Research Fund.
This Fund is primarily for the investigation of Tropical Diseases and there are reasons associated with the gift for connecting its use with India. At its meeting on July 2 the Committee decided to recommend to Council that the whole income, together with the invested income, should be employed for five years (until October 31, 1941) as follows:-
(A) Malaria Research. It recommends that Colonel Sinton, I.M.S. should be offered a stipend of £600 for five years (without superannuation allowance) to work at the Horton Centre on certain aspects of malaria. The Horton Centre will be under the control of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and unique opportunities will be available there for clinical study, for observations on the malaria parasite in man and Anopheles, for investigations of the serology and immunology of malaria, and for chemotherapeutic testing and experimentation on the human subject. Colonel Sinton is 52 years of age, and is now and has been for many years actively engaged in malaria work in India.
(B) Experimental studies on the ecology of certain species of Anopheles. ... A detailed plan has been suggested by Professor P.A. Buxton of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine...
(C) Nutrition in India...
...’]
[attached – cutting of description of Royal Soc. plans from the Times, 14/8/36.]
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Sent toSydney Price James
21 Aug 1936
Description:‘Col James,
CMO would no doubt be interested to have a short note on Col Sinton’s appointment and the arrangements made for him at Horton.
T.C. 21/8/36.’
[different hand:
S.P. James to ‘Deputy CMO,’ 26th Aug. 1936.
‘Deputy C.M.O.
Col. Sinton’s appointment followed the proposal which I made in the annexed copy of a letter to the Chairman of the Tropical Diseases Committee of the Royal Society dated 18th March this year. The arguments for him to work at Horton are noted; para (A) of the annexed copy of a Report adopted by teh Council of the Society on Jly 9
(The appointment does not affect the arrangement made by the Ministry with the London School of Hygiene for the routine supply of material for the practice of malariatherapy & Col. Sinton, of course, will have no concern with, or responsibility for, that part of the Horton ward.)
S.P.J. 26/8/36.’]
[attached to above:
S.P. James to J.C.G. Ledingham,
Following our conversation on Monday I should like to make a proposal at the meeting of the Tropical Diseases Committee to-morrow to the effect
“That the Medical Research (Anonymous) Fund be utilised for the promotion of research on malaria by inviting Col. Sinton, I.M.S., to become a whole-time research Commissioner on the subject under the direction of the Tropical Diseases Committee.”
It does not seem necessary to argue the point whether research on malaria is more important than research on any other tropical subject, but it is universally recognised that the prospects of successful practical research have been greatly brightened during recent years by three events of outstanding importance: (1) the application of the practice of malariatherapy to the study of malaria itself as well as for its original purpose; (2) the discovery of synthetic antimalarials which promise to be more effective than quinine; (3) the discovery that monkeys as well as canaries and other birds can be utilised for studying particular problems.
It is within the knowledge of most members of the Tropical Diseases Committee that the efforts which individual English workers have made to pursue research along any of these three promising lines have hitherto been greatly hampered by lack of money and staff and that repeated requests for assistance have been unavailing. The fact that more than 30 years ago the Royal Society considered research on malaria to be well worthy of support by appointing a special Malaria Committee to deal with the subject and sending research Commissioners to various countries affords a precedent for bringing the matter to notice again.
Yours sincerely,
(Sgd.) S.P. James.’]
[attached to above:
‘Report as adopted by the Council of the Royal Society, July 9, 1936.
Council Agenda – Item 13.
Report of the Tropical Diseases Committee.
The Committee has met three times and has considered various schemes for the use of the Medical Research Fund.
This Fund is primarily for the investigation of Tropical Diseases and there are reasons associated with the gift for connecting its use with India. At its meeting on July 2 the Committee decided to recommend to Council that the whole income, together with the invested income, should be employed for five years (until October 31, 1941) as follows:-
(A) Malaria Research. It recommends that Colonel Sinton, I.M.S. should be offered a stipend of £600 for five years (without superannuation allowance) to work at the Horton Centre on certain aspects of malaria. The Horton Centre will be under the control of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and unique opportunities will be available there for clinical study, for observations on the malaria parasite in man and Anopheles, for investigations of the serology and immunology of malaria, and for chemotherapeutic testing and experimentation on the human subject. Colonel Sinton is 52 years of age, and is now and has been for many years actively engaged in malaria work in India.
(B) Experimental studies on the ecology of certain species of Anopheles. ... A detailed plan has been suggested by Professor P.A. Buxton of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine...
(C) Nutrition in India...
...’]
[attached – cutting of description of Royal Soc. plans from the Times, 14/8/36.]
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