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No. 22.
EAST AFRICA PROTECTORATE. COMMISSIONER SADLER to THE EARL OF ELGIN.
(Received April 6, 1906.)
Commissioner's Office, Nairobi, March 12, 1906. [Published as No. 220 in [Cd. 3189], November, 1906.]
No. 23.
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EAST AFRICA PROTECTORATE.
THE EARL OF ELGIN to COMMISSIONER SADLER. (Sent 1.25 p.m., April 6, 1906.) TELEGRAM.
April 6. Referring to your telegram of March 28,* fever, proposals approved.
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No. 24.
EAST AFRICA PROTECTORATE
THE EARL OF ELGIN to COMMISSIONER SADLER. (Sent 3.55 p.m., April 6, 1906.) TELEGRAM.
April 6. Referring to your despatch, No. 97. I approve of enactment.
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Transvaal Agricultural Department, 1903-4. Given a good knowledge of the areas infected, there is no doubt that the advance of the disease can be checked by fencing them in, but no animal of the bovine race which has pastured within the fenced area should be allowed to come out of it unless :-
(1) The animal has been stabled for a period of three weeks during which it has been fed on forage brought from a clean area (grass or hay from an infected area may be the means of conveying virulent ticks to animals in stabulation) and at the end of the observation period has been pronounced healthy.
(2) The animal is to proceed along a road (not over a pasture) to a near and convenient place for immediate slaughter. In this case it should be thoroughly sprayed with an arsenical or paraffin solution to destroy the ticks on its body before leaving the area, and its hide, after re- moval, should be again disinfected for safety.
It would be better that no animal should leave the infected area, but I men- tion the above rules under which exceptions might be made, knowing full well from experience how, in these countries, it is sometimes impossible to stick to a hard and fast rule without disorganizing something of almost equal importance.
In my minute of 30th December, 1905 (C.O. 41303) I point out that it is exceedingly likely that ground over which animals from an infected area have trekked will be infected in patches, and that it is often some months before one obtains the actual proof of infection by an animal dying of the disease. One must be prepared, then, to find out that, in the first instance, the whole extent of the infected ground has not been included in the fenced area, and should this turn out to be the case, one must also be prepared to continue the fencing in of other areas as they become known, otherwise the outlay in the first case will have been without avail. I assume that transport through the fenced area is necessary. In this case every precaution should be taken to keep the cattle off grass (the ticks are only on grassy parts) by burning broad strips on the roadsides or by fencing such roads. With these qualifications I can see no better way than fencing and consider that it would be well worth doing.
The most successful method of treating animals inside the fence is dealt with in the published papers which I understand have already been furnished.
S. STOCKMAN.
March 30, 1906.
No. 25.
EAST AFRICA PROTECTORATE.
THE EARL OF ELGIN to COMMISSIONER SADLER.
[Answered by No. 35.]
(No. 202.) SIR,
Downing Street, April 18, 1906. WITH reference to your telegram, No. 47,* and in continuation of my tele- graphic reply of the 6th instant, I have the honour to transmit to you, for your information and guidance, the accompanying copy of a further report by the Chief Veterinary Officer of the Board of Agriculture on the measures to be adopted in order to prevent the spread of African Coast fever.
2. shall be glad to be informed of the progress that has been made in checking this disease.
I have, &c.,
ELGIN.
(10851.)
Enclosure in No. 25.
It must be understood that before advising fencing in the Transvaal the Veterinary Department spent nearly a year in hunting down infected farms and roads. This was done by a process of deduction based on the pathology of the disease; a detailed account of the lines followed is given in the report of the
* No. 23.
• No. 17.
↑ No. 218 in [Cd. 3189].
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No. 26. UGANDA.
ACTING COMMISSIONER WILSON to THE EARL OF ELGIN. (Received April 30, 1906.)
(No. 60.)
Entebbe, Uganda, March 26, 1906.
[Published as No. 221 in [Cd. 3189], November, 1906.]
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No. 27. UGANDA.
ACTING COMMISSIONER WILSON to THE EARL OF ELGIN. (Received 30 April, 1906.)
Entebbe, Uganda, 4 April, 1906.
[Printed as No. 222 in [Cd. 3189], November, 1906.]
(No. 69.)
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