SIR,
(Africa. No. 52.)
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Enclosure in No. 24.
Brussels, April 8, 1907. I HAVE the honour to transmit herewith, with reference to your despatch, No. 136, Africa, of the 18th of December last, a copy of a note from the Congo Government in reply to the note which I addressed to it on receipt of that despatch respecting the existence of sleeping sickness on the frontier between Rhodesia and the Independent State.
Sir E. Grey, Bart., M.P., &c., &c., &c.
MONSIEUR LE MINISTRE,
I have, &c.,
ARTHUR H. HARDINGE,
Bruxelles, le 5 Avril, 1907. J'AI l'honneur de restituer sous ce pli à Votre Excellence le rapport* de Monsieur le Dr. Noble, qu'elle a bien voulu me communiquer, relativement à l'apparition de la maladie du sommeil constatée à la frontière nord-ouest de la North- Eastern Rhodesia.
La lettre de Monsieur Robert Codrington, Administrateur de la North-Eastern Rhodesia, à Monsieur le Secrétaire de la British South Africa Company, qui accom- pagnait ce rapport, signale que ce fonctionnairc avait écrit au Représentant du Comité Spécial du Katanga & Lukonzolwa pour attirer son attention sur l'utilité d'une collaboration entre les deux Administrations, en vue d'enrayer la propagation de la maladie ainsi que sur les causes qui, à son avis, ont amené l'apparition dans la région du lac Moero et du Haut Luapula. Le Représentant du Comité a effective- ment reçu à ce sujet une lettre de Monsieur Robert Codrington à laquelle il a répondu par sa dépêche du 2 Novembre, 1906, que je crois devoir joindre ici en copie pour l'information de Votre Excellence.
J'ajouterai, Monsieur le Ministre, que le Comité Spécial du Katanga avait déjà antérieurement pris des mesures pour lutter contre la maladie du sommeil. Il a été decidé de créer trois lazarets où seront traitées les maladies des régions infestées et où seront soumises à la visite médicale les personnes se rendant dans les parties indemnes. De plus, un médecin sera chargé spécialement de visiter les régions con- sidérées comme indemnes et de diriger ceux qui présenteraient des symptômes de la maladie sur les lazarets établis dans les régions infestées.
Sir Arthur Hardinge, K.C.B.,
Je saisis, &c.,
CHEVALIER DE CUVELIER.
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I at once caused instructions to be issued to the Principal Medical Officer to detail a medical officer to proceed to Loko in that province, to investigate and report; and Dr. MacGahey, the officer selected for this duty, has already reported that he has found trypanosome in one case.
3. Advice as to precautions to be taken to stop the spread of this deadly disease will be gladly received.
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WM. WALLACE,
I have, &c.,
Acting High Commissioner.
No. 26.
SIERRA LEONE.
THE ACTING GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
(Received April 20, 1907.)
(No. 107.) MY LORD,
Government House, Freetown, Sierra Leone, April 4, 1907. REFERRING to your despatch, No. 104, of the 8th of March, transmitting papers relating to the use of atoxyl in the treatment of sleeping sickness, the Principal Medical Officer informs me that he is requisitioning from the Crown Agents for atoxyl, with which he proposes to start the regular treatment of any case of sleeping sickness which may occur.
2. Dr. Forde states that just before leaving the Gambia he had under his care a case of sleeping sickness for which he was using this drug, that after one month's treatment there was a marked improvement, and that, from the latest account he has received, the improvement has continued under such treatment.
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I have, &c.,
G. B. HADDON SMITH,
Acting Governor.
No. 27.
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No. 25.
NORTHERN NIGERIA.
THE ACTING HIGH COMMISSIONER to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received April 20, 1907.)
[Copy to London School of Tropical Medicine, July 30, 1907. LF.} [Answered by No. 40.]
(Confidential.)
MY LORD, Government House, Zungeru, Northern Nigeria, March 12, 1907.
I HAVE the honour to acknowledge with deep regret the receipt of your despatch, confidential, of the 28th January, 1907,† and in this connection it is my unpleasant duty to convey to your Lordship the information that I have discovered Glossina palpalis in the Government House grounds, and have since learnt that this species of tsetse fly is to be found all along the Dago River—which runs through this cantonment.
2. As reported to your Lordship in my despatch, No. 613, of the 19th December last acting on information received from the Resident, Nassarawa Province, with reference to several supposed cases of sleeping sickness at Loko, on the Benue River,
• Sub-enclosure in No. 11.
† 1914: not printed. (Stating that Mr. Eiliott was suffering from trypanosomiasis.)
‡ No. 4
BRITISH CENTRAL AFRICA PROTECTORATE.
THE LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE to COLONIAL
SIR,
OFFICE.
(Received April 24, 1907.)
[Copy to Commissioner, April 26, 1907. No. 120. L.F.]
[Answered by No. 28.]
B 10, Exchange Buildings, Liverpool, April 23, 1907.
I AM directed to inform you that the Sleeping Sickness Expedition of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, consisting of Dr. A. Kinghorn and Mr. Montgomery, will leave England on the 4th May by the S.S. "Kenilworth Castle," and will proceed direct to Kalomo in North-Western Rhodesia.
When the itinerary of the expedition is settled, 1 hope to be able to notify you of the same.
I am respectfully to ask whether His Majesty's Representative at Zomba may be instructed to forward any mail that may be awaiting the expedition at that place to Kalomo.
LF. transmitting copy of No. 12.
I am, &c.,
A. H. MILNE.