§ 12. Mr. H. WILLIAMSasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether any system exists for the exchange of knowledge on the problems of tropical diseases of man, animal, and plant between his Department and the corresponding departments of other countries with tropical possessions?
§ Mr. AMERYThe Imperial Bureau of Entomology, the Imperial Bureau of Mycology, and the Bureau of Hygiene and Tropical Diseases constantly receive information of the nature indicated in my hon. Friend's question from all parts of the Empire and foreign territories This information is summarised in the periodical monthly and quarterly reviews which are published by these Bureaux and distributed to subscribers, including the Governments of the oversea Dependencies. I should also refer, in connec- 785 tion with human tropical disease, to the valuable work of the health organisation or the League of Nations, through which knowledge of the progress made in that direction is widely distributed between the different Governments represented in the organisation.
§ Mr. WILLIAMSIs there any link with the Dutch Government in this matter?
§ Mr. AMERYI think so, as I have described, both through the League of Nations and through the use we make of the very excellent publications issued by their Department in Java.
§ Sir HENRY CRAIKIs it not the case that the medical profession, in all its branches, is always anxious to communicate with its confreres in other
§ A veterinary laboratory and stock farm have been built at Vom in Bauchi Province, and are now in full work. The cost was about £25,000.
786§ parts of the world, and to carry on research in company with them, without any outside agency?