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persons are nominated to the councils, they are 

 always in a minority, and are liable at any time 

 to find that their advice is disregarded. 



But, before proceeding to consider how the 

 Government at home or in these colonies is 

 carrying out its duties, it is expedient to mention 

 the action of certain societies. The London and 

 Liverpool Schools of Tropical Medicine have done 

 a most useful educational work among those whose 

 lives are to be passed in the tropics, and they have 

 equipped expeditions for the study of tropical 

 diseases on the spot. In various ways, also, the 

 Medical Schools of the United Kingdom, the 

 Royal Society, and the General Medical Council, 

 are seeking to extend the knowledge of tropical 

 medicine and hygiene, and the Colonial Nursing 

 Association has systematised the supply of trained 

 nurses to hospitals in the tropics. The writer 

 will not, however, enlarge upon this category of 

 activities as it has been described in a recent 

 address by Sir Charles Bruce. 1 



The British Cotton-growing Association was 

 formed in 1902 in view of the danger to manu- 

 facturers of cotton of dependence upon a single 

 source for their supplies. It secured at once the 

 co-operation of the Government, which now pro- 

 vides free transport for cotton grown by the 

 Association over the railways of West Africa ; and 

 small grants are made to the Association by the 

 Governments of Sierra Leone, Lagos, and Southern 



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 pp. 224-27. 



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