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3. The Secretary of State will be glad to learn in due course the arrangements proposed for the two expeditions.
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I am, &c.,
H. W. JUST.
THE LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE to COLONIAL OFFICE.
(Received March 9, 1907.)
[Copy to Commissioners, British Central Africa, East Africa, and Uganda_Protectorates, March 21, 1907, No. 101; March 22, 1907, Nos. 158 and 75. L.F.]
SIR,
[Answered by No. 71.]
The Incorporated Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine,
B 10, Exchange Buildings, Liverpool, March 8, 1907.
I HAVE to acknowledge, with thanks, receipt of your letter of 5th March (7154/1907),* advising the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine that the Crown Agents for the Colonies have been instructed to pay the sum of £500 on account of the Blackwater Fever Expedition of the School, and that a further sum of £250 will be paid by the Crown Agents after the 1st of April next. The sum of £500 in question has duly been received by the School from the Crown Agents, and I am directed by the Committee to take this opportunity again of cordially thanking His Majesty's Government for their valuable contribution towards the expenses of the expedition.
With regard to the last paragraph in your letter, I have to inform you that arrangements for the two expeditions are progressing very satisfactorily.
The Blackwater Fever Expedition. It has been decided that this expedition should consist of three members, viz., Dr. Breinl (in charge), Dr. York, and Mr. Perrin. The actual date of departure has not yet been settled, as this must depend upon the completion of some important researches bearing on the subject, on which members of the expedition are at present engaged at the Research Laboratories of the School. Dr. Breinl, who has charge of the expedition, informs me that they hope to be able to leave England early in May.
The Sleeping Sickness Expedition-This expedition will consist of Dr. King- horn (in charge) and Mr. Montgomery, the latter joining the expedition from India. Arrangements are being made for the despatch of this expedition as soon as possible. In this connection, I am to enclose copy of a letter from the British South Africa Company, who have promised the same facilities to the expedition, whilst in their territory, as have been offered by the British Government, viz., free quarters, free transport, and 10s. per day per man subsistence allowance. I am to ask whether, in the event of it being thought desirable for the expedition to commence work in Rhodesia, as suggested by the Company, before proceeding to the British Colonies, the offer of the Government to pay passages of the members would permit of the expedition going to Rhodesia direct.
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My directors are of opinion that these two cases, in the event of their being proved to be sleeping sickness, may be the precursors of an inroad of the disease from infected territory into the northern provinces of Rhodesia.
Under these circumstances, and in view of the practical interest taken by the Company in the expedition organized by the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, I am to ask whether it could be arranged that the expedition might commence work in that portion of Rhodesia contiguous to the border of the Congo Free State, where it is urgently required.
I am to point out that, having in mind the fact that the railway is now open to Broken IIill Mine, a point but some hundred and fifty miles from the Congo border, over which distance the doctors attached to the expedition would be entitled to the special facilities mentioned in my letter of the 15th ultimo, it would appear that the district mentioned presents a most favourable ground for a commencement of the work which the expedition has in view.
The Secretary,
The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine,
B 10, Exchange Buildings, Liverpool.
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Yours, &c.,
D. E. BRODIE,
Secretary.
THE LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE to COLONIAL OFFICE.
(Received March 12, 1907.)
[Copy to High Commissioner for South Africa, March 21, 1907, No. 167. L.F.; and to Commissioners, East Africa Protectorate and Uganda, March 22, 1907, Nos. 158 and 75. L.F.]
SIR,
[Answered by No. 71.]
B 10, Exchange Buildings, Liverpool, March 11, Sleeping Sickness Expedition.
1907.
WITH further reference to my letter of March the 8th,* I enclose an extract from a letter from Dr. Kinghorn, who has charge of the arrangements for the Sleeping Sickness Expedition of the School.
The School would be much obliged if you could grant the requests contained
in paragraphs 3, 4, and 6, as far as they relate to the Colonial Office,
I may point out that paragraph 1 of Dr. Kinghorn's letter has reference to the last paragraph of my letter dated 8th March.*
I am, &c.,
A. H. MILNE.
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DEAR SIR,
Enclosure in No. 68.
I am,
A. H. MILNE,
Secretary.
2, London Wall Buildings, London, E.C., February 5, 1907.
I AM directed to inform you that a cable has been received from the Adminis trator of North-Western Rhodesia to the effect that two cases of what is believed to be sleeping sickness are reported from Ndola and Mwomboshi, two stations in that territory within measurable distance of the boundary between Rhodesia and the Congo Free State.
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Enclosure in No. 69.
The Incorporated Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine,
B 10, Exchange Buildings, Liverpool.
With regard to the letter which you propose to send to the Colonial Office, I think that you might perhaps lay more emphasis on the fact that British Central Africa is threatened by sleeping sickness only through North-Eastern Rhodesia since the only transport route from the south end of Lake Tanganyika to Lake Nyass runs through Rhodesia. (There is one through German territory.)
I think that it would be very advisable for one of the members of the Sleeping Sickness Expedition-if not both-to go in by way of the Cape and railway. This
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