S.P. James to R.H. Steen, 17th Nov. 1923.- Correspondence Details
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Sent From (Definite): Sydney Price JamesSent To (Definite): Robert Hunter SteenDate: 17 Nov 1923
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Sent fromSydney Price James
17 Nov 1923
Description:‘Dear Steen,
I think Dr. Bond has sent you a copy of a letter I wrote him on 14th November, but in case he did not do so I enclose a copy herewith. The Board of Control approve the feeding experiments which I suggested and I informed them of your kind offer to give me facilities for carrying them out at Dartford. Dr. Bond asked me to proceed with them in co-operation with you. Therefore it now remains to tell you that I should wish to carry out the work in the following ways:-
1. No inoculated case should receive quinine treatment during the week in which the feeding will be done. Therefore on receipt of this letter will you kindly arrange to stop quinine treatment of these patients?
2. I am sending my laboratory assistant to you on Tuesday morning early. He will take with him a supply of the mosquitos which are to be fed.
3. During the day of Tuesday he will examine the blood of all inoculated patients and will select the cases whose blood contains parasites suitable for the enquiry.
4. The feeding bottles containing the mosquitoes [sic] will be applied between 6 and 7 in the evening and will remain on the patients throughout the night. They will be fixed by means of long strips of adhesive plaster.
5. My assistant will remain in the ward throughout the night in order to see that no mishap to the bottles, etc. occurs.
6. In the morning he will remove the bottles and will bring them to London by the first train. They will then be incubated in our laboratory here and will be examined a week later.
7. The procedure for feeding may have to be repeated in the same way later in the week.
Can you very kindly arrange that Shute should be cared for as regards meals, etc., during his stay at the hospital for this work?
In case any other details may be necessary I propose if it will be convenient to you to run down to see you on Monday, arriving at about 2 o’clock and returning by the 4.13 train. We can then discuss the matter more fully.
Yours very sincerely,
(Sgd.) S.P.J.’
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Sent toRobert Hunter Steen
17 Nov 1923
Description:‘Dear Steen,
I think Dr. Bond has sent you a copy of a letter I wrote him on 14th November, but in case he did not do so I enclose a copy herewith. The Board of Control approve the feeding experiments which I suggested and I informed them of your kind offer to give me facilities for carrying them out at Dartford. Dr. Bond asked me to proceed with them in co-operation with you. Therefore it now remains to tell you that I should wish to carry out the work in the following ways:-
1. No inoculated case should receive quinine treatment during the week in which the feeding will be done. Therefore on receipt of this letter will you kindly arrange to stop quinine treatment of these patients?
2. I am sending my laboratory assistant to you on Tuesday morning early. He will take with him a supply of the mosquitos which are to be fed.
3. During the day of Tuesday he will examine the blood of all inoculated patients and will select the cases whose blood contains parasites suitable for the enquiry.
4. The feeding bottles containing the mosquitoes [sic] will be applied between 6 and 7 in the evening and will remain on the patients throughout the night. They will be fixed by means of long strips of adhesive plaster.
5. My assistant will remain in the ward throughout the night in order to see that no mishap to the bottles, etc. occurs.
6. In the morning he will remove the bottles and will bring them to London by the first train. They will then be incubated in our laboratory here and will be examined a week later.
7. The procedure for feeding may have to be repeated in the same way later in the week.
Can you very kindly arrange that Shute should be cared for as regards meals, etc., during his stay at the hospital for this work?
In case any other details may be necessary I propose if it will be convenient to you to run down to see you on Monday, arriving at about 2 o’clock and returning by the 4.13 train. We can then discuss the matter more fully.
Yours very sincerely,
(Sgd.) S.P.J.’
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