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pathogenic protozoa. In temperate climates relapsing fever and syphilis are caused by parasites of this type, and it is highly probable that some of the infectious diseases are also due to them. It is obviously extremely important to the Home Government that every assistance should be given to any research which has such a direct bearing as has the work of the Liverpool Research Laboratories on this important group of diseases.
&c.,
H. J. Read, Esq.
26708
No. 51.
I am,
J. L. TODD.
THE LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE to COLONIAL
OFFICE.
(Received July 27, 1907.)
[Answered by No. 57.]
B 10, Exchange Buildings, Liverpool, July 25, 1907. [Printed as Appendix II. to [Cd. 3992], March, 1908.]·
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No. 52.
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arrived at, and I beg leave to forward them for the information of the Commissioner of Uganda:-
Although the Committee are still of opinion that the etiology and pathology of sleeping sickness have been established, yet several problems of considerable difficulty require further elucidation, more especially in the light of the possible spread of the disease into other regions of Africa, e.g., whether the introduction of sleeping sickness into regions where Glossina palpalis is absent but Glossina morsitans is present would be likely to be followed by the spread of the malady.
"The Committee are therefore of opinion that the following researches are desirable:-
(1) Examination of wild and domestic animals to determine whether any such animals act as a reservoir for the trypanosome of sleeping sickness.
(2) Whether species of Glossina other than palpalis are capable of transmitting this trypanosome.
(3) Whether Glossina acts mechanically or whether there is any developmental cycle of the trypanosome in the interior of the fly.
(4) During what period does the fly remain infective? (5) and (6) The biology of Glossina and its reproduction, especially the study of whether any practical means could be devised for destroying Glossina by means of some natural enemy of the fly.
(7) Whether other diptera are capable of transmitting the virus of sleeping sickness."
This programme of research would require the services of two different kinds of investigators. A thoroughly trained entomologist would investigate problems 5 and 6, while the other questions are such as would require an investigator fully trained in modern laboratory methods.
•
THE ROYAL SOCIETY to COLONIAL OFFICE. (Received July 29, 1907.)
[Copy to Acting Commissioner, August 2, 1907. No. 188. L.F.] MY LORD,
Burlington House, London, W., July 26, 1907. In reply to Mr. Antrobus's letter of the 19th instant (24568/1907),* I beg to inform you that the Royal Society is of opinion that scientific investigations may now be resumed at the Laboratory at Entebbe. The subject is under the considera- tion of a Committee, and as soon as their recommendations are ready they will be communicated to your Lordship.
I may add that since the work at the Entebbe Laboratory was arrested by the illness and death of Lieutenant Tulloch, the Royal Society has been actively engaged in carrying on a series of experiments in this country with the view of discovering a drug which might prove effective in dealing with trypanosomiasis, and that the most recent results obtained in this enquiry encourage the hope that, at least in regard to the diseases of nagana and surra, a successful mode of treatment has been found,
26708
No. 54.
I am, &c.,
ARCH. GEIKIE,
Secretary-
COLONIAL OFFICE to TREASURY. [Answered by No. 55.]
SIR,
Downing Street, August 20, 1907. I AM directed by the Earl of Elgin to transmit to you, to be laid before the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, the accompanying copies of two letters* from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, asking that the present annual grant of £500 from the Tropical Diseases Research Fund may be increased to £1,000.
2. The revenue of the fund is approximately £3,000 a year, made up as follows:-
I have, &c.,
ARCH. GEIKIE,
Secretary.
29622
SIR,
No. 53.
THE ROYAL SOCIETY to COLONIAL OFFICE.
(Received August 19, 1907.)
[Answered by Nos. 56 and 71.]
Burlington House, London, W., August 16, 1907. WITH reference to the letter from Mr. Antrobus of 19th July, 1907, and 'my reply thereto, dated 26th July, I now have to inform you that the Committee referred to in my letter has held a meeting at which the following conclusions were
• No. 49.
† Nos. 49 and 52.
Contribution from the Imperial Government
£500
Contribution from the Government of India Contribution from the funds at the disposal of the
Rhodes Trustees ... Contributions from Colonial Governments
500
200
1,800
Total
£3,000
3. The annual expenditure consists, at present, of grants as follows:-
£1,300 a year to the London School of Tropical Medicine.
750 a year to London University.
500 a year to the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. 100 a year to Cambridge University.
-
Total
£2,650
• No. 50 and Appendix II. to [Cd. 3992], March, 1908.
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