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Conclusion.
I think the most lamentable feature of whole tour was the extraordinary number of young children, from two years old upwards, that either showed well- marked symptoms of sleeping sickness or had enlargement of the cervical_glands, varying in size from small shot to broad-beans, all as described by Mr. Grey (in Vol. VII., Royal Society's Reports on Sleeping Sickness).
Some 40 gland, smears* were taken from all the localitics and reserved for examination.
Karungu was left on the afternoon of February 24th, and Kisumu on the 25th.
I have &c.,
A. D. MILNE.
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No. 14.
SIR,
EAST AFRICA PROTECTORATĖ. COLONIAL OFFICE to TREASURY.
[Answered, sanctioning, by 23926: not printed.]
Downing Street, 23 June, 1908.
I AM directed by the Earl of Crewe to transmit to you, to be laid before the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, a copy of a despatcht from the Governor of the East Africa Protectorate, in which he reports the measures which are being necessitated by the prevalence of sleeping sickness in Kavirondo, and asks sanction
to the expenditure involved, estimated at £2,000, which would be met from general savings on the current financial year.
Lord Crewe fears that there can be no doubt of the necessity for this expendi- ture, and I am to ask for their Lordship's sanction to it.
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No. 15.
I am, &c.,
R. L. ANTROBUS.
NYASALAND PROTECTORATE.
THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received 3 August, 1908.)
(Confidential.)
MY LORD,
Government House, Zomba, Nyasaland Protectorate,
17 June, 1908.
I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Lordship's confidential despatch of the 28th of April, 1908, transmitting to me Annex 10 to the report of the meeting of the British South Africa Company of the 12th of March.
2. I have read with great interest the report made by Dr. Spillane, Principal Medical Officer in North-Eastern Rhodesia, on the investigations made by him in connection with sleeping sickness.
3. I have been much struck by the sensible nature of the recommendations made by Dr. Spillane. It so often happens in cases such as this that recommenda- tions made by experts are practically impossible to carry out with any chance of success. Dr. Spillane's proposals are common-sense ones, and although undoubtedly difficulties will be experienced by the Administration of North-Eastern Rhodesia in carrying some of them out, they are practicable.
4. So far as Nyasaland is concerned, the Protectorate is, fortunately, in a much better position for keeping out sleeping sickness than North-Eastern Rhodesia, as the country is bulwarked off from any district where this disease can obtain a Moreover, hold by high-lying country free from any description of tsetse fly. throughout the Protectorate there is not a large amount of fly. Up to the present Glossina palpalis has not been found in Nyasaland, though G. Morsitans and one or two other varieties exist in certain localities.
35 smears were examined in the laboratory, 20 showed trypanosomiasis, and in the remaining 15 none were detected.-A.D.M.
L.F. transmitting copy of No. 9.
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