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5. Dr. Spillane's remarks on the habits of tsetse fly, the localities in which it is' found, and its relation to big game coincide with my own experience.
6. I presume that as soon as the investigations now being carried out by the Sleeping Sickness Commission which is working north of Lake Nyasa are completed I shall receive a full report, together with recommendations as to the precautions which the Commission may consider most advisable to take.
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SIR,
I have, &c.,
ALFRED SHARPE,
Governor.
No. 16.
RHODESIA.
THE BRITISH SOUTH AFRICA COMPANY to COLONIAL OFFICE.
(Received 22 August, 1908.)
[Answered by No. 17.]
2, London Wall Buildings, London, E.C., 21 August, 1908.
I AM directed to refer to my letter of the 7th April last,* and to previous correspondence regarding the measures taken to prevent the introduction of sleeping sickness into Northern Rhodesia, and to transmit, for the information of the Secretary of State, a copy of a letter from the Administrator of North-Western Rhodesia forwarding a copy of a letter from the Principal Medical Officer, North- Eastern Rhodesia, with reference to sleeping sickness on the northern borders of that territory.
I am respectfully to ask that the attention of the Secretary of State may be drawn to the opinion expressed by the Principal Medical Officer, namely, that were adequate regulations enforced by the German and Belgian Governments the disease ought never to exceed its present limits and should gradually die out, and to express the hope of my Directors that the Secretary of State may see fit to cause representa- tions on this point to be addressed to the Governments concerned.
I am, &c.,
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me.
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Tanganyika districts when they come to be properly organised. There have been no desertions from the camp, and there has been no tendency whatever for the natives living along the Luapula to desert to the Congo. All the villages comprising the focus of the infection on the Luapula near the Mansa have been moved right away, and now approach neither the river nor the fly. Movement towards Kambove on the part of the natives either for transport or labour is unpopular, and they will never go under existent conditions unless they are told to. The Medical Officer here is now leaving Madona and makes his headquarters at Fort Rosebery. So far no fly and no disease has been found away from the borders. Neave is now working on the guard area and Lake Bangweulu, and when mine and Kinghorn's work on the guard area is finished, that will be in a few months, will, I feel sure, prove it free from both fly and disease, in which event it may be thrown open again without restriction. Kinghorn is now nearing Abercorn, and he found only two cases on Mweru in addition to those found there last year. I have Brunton with He will be stationed there and work on the same lines as at Madona (
). From Mweru I am going to Mporokoso to palpate natives of the guard area, meeting Dr. Leech there, who comes with me to Sumbu, the centre of the Tanganyika focus, from Abercorn. I do the German border from Bismarkburg When we have established the fact that the area at present to Fife, thence home. known as the guard area is free both from disease and fly the problem of sleeping sickness in North-Eastern Rhodesia becomes a comparatively easy one, and with good medical officers' posts as at present the spread of the disease ought never to exceed its present limits, and with regulations capable of being kept up should If the guard area gradually die out or to the extent of an occasional odd case. had been infected we should have had to establish a central station at Mporokoso; this we might still have to do in the event of the guard area being found infected or the disease spreading beyond its present limits, but this I think unlikely. Beyond this there is, with good regulations, no need for any further action on our part. The Belgians and Germans must now do something or we may never be better off for all we do. Cases will always be drifting across from their infected borders. Treatment by atoxyl and mercury is not very encouraging on advanced cases, but in early cases some sort of cure, which may of course be only temporary, seems to have been effected in many cases. The new Kalungwisi is being put at Ngoma,
). near Kampanda, 20 miles from Kazembe (
Yours, &c.,
J. C. SPILLANE.
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Secretary.
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Enclosure in No. 16.
British South Africa Company, Administrator's Office,
Livingstone, 2nd July, 1908.
SIR,
I AM directed to forward, for the information of the Board, a copy of a letter received by His Honour from Dr. Spillane, Principal Medical Officer for North- Eastern Rhodesia, in reference to sleeping sickness on the northern borders of that territory.
The Secretary,
The British South Africa Company,
I am, &c.,
HENRY RANGELEY,
2, London Wall Buildings, London, E.C.
DEAR MR. CODRINGTON,
Secretary.
Madona, 7 June, 1908.
I HAVE received your letter of April 8th from Broken Hill, which came, of course, by way of Fort Jameson. There are a few more cases of sleeping sickness on the Luapula, but it is not serious, and another year will see it under complete control. There are at present only seven cases in hospital here under treatment. All the loads which were blocked at Madona (5,000) have gone to Kambove, and now the Luapula is finally closed until the policy of opening it again comes to be considered. The natives have proved to be most amenable to all the conditions that have been imposed upon them, and I hope the same will apply to Mweru and
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SIR,
No. 17. RHODESIA.
COLONIAL OFFICE to THE BRITISH SOUTH AFRICA COMPANY.
Downing Street, 5 September, 1908.
I AM directed by the Earl of Crewe to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 21st of August, in which your Directors express the hope that representations may be made to the German and Belgian Governments in favour of their adopting adequate regulations for the control of the sleeping sickness in the regions adjacent to North-Eastern Rhodesia, and to inform you that the matter will receive considera- tion.
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SIR,
No. 18.
NORTH-EASTERN RHODESIA.
I am, &c.,
C. P. LUCAS.
THE BRITISH SOUTH AFRICA COMPANY to COLONIAL OFFICE. (Received 8 December, 1908.)
2, London Wall Buildings, London, E.C.,
7 December, 1908.
I AM directed to enclose a copy of a letter, dated the 6th October last, from the Company's Fort Jameson Office, transmitting a copy of Report, No. 9, by Dr. J. C.
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