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to the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, and, by direction of the Secretary of State, transmits herewith copy of the under-mentioned paper.
Foreign Office,
November 17, 1906.
REFERENCE TO PREVIOUS LETTER:
Colonial Office Reference No. 40701/06 of November 9.*
DESCRIPTION OF ENCLOSURE.
Name aud Date.
Subject.
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Foreign Office, November 17, to His Majesty's Wild animals' preservation in Africa,
Representatives at Brussels, Berlin, Rome, Lisbon, Madrid.
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proposed veterinary survey of Northern Nigeria and, in reply, I am to state, for the information of the Secretary of State, that the Board would be glad to place at the disposal of His Lordship the services of Mr. James Brand, F.R.C.V.S., one of their non-established Assistant Veterinary Inspectors, for the purpose in question. Mr. Brand has been employed in the laboratory of the Board for some months past, under the direction of their Chief Veterinary Officer, on experiments connected with certain tropical diseases of animals, and the Board believe that he would be willing to undertake the work in question if suitable terms can be arranged.
With regard to the second paragraph of the letter under reply, I am to say that the Board think that it would be necessary to employ the officer selected for a period of six months, and that authority should be obtained to extend that period to a year, if the reports received from him are deemed to render such a course desirable. Mr. Brand is at the present time in receipt of a salary of £250 per annum, with travelling and subsistence allowances, and I am to suggest that while employed by the Secretary of State he should continue to be paid the same remuneration, and that he should, in-addition, be given an honorarium, which, the Board think, might fairly be fixed at £200 for each six months of his engagement. The rates of subsistence and travelling allowances applicable to Mr. Brand in Great Britain are shown in the enclosed Memorandum, A. ̃95/A. of March, 1901.
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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
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(No.
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you
Enclosure in No. 61.
Foreign Office, November 17, 1908.
I HAVE to inform
that the French Chargé d'Affaires has Your Excellency communicated to me the desire of the French Government to ratify the Agreement relative to the preservation of wild animals in Africa which was signed on the 19th of May, 1900.
The ratification of the Agreement has been delayed pending the accession of Liberia and Abyssinia. Liberia having now accepted the Agreement, the French Government propose to ratify without waiting any longer for King Menelek's of the Congo Free to which you are
assent.
you should inform the Government
[To Brussels]: Your Excellency State of the willingness of the French Government to ratify, and enquire
accredited
whether they also would be willing to ratify.
Sir A. Hardinge,
Count de Salis,
Sir E. Egerton,
Sir F. Villiers, Sir M. de Bunsen,
&c., &c.,
43405*
&c.
No. 62.
I am, &c.,
For the Secretary of State,
E. BARRINGTON.
NORTHERN NIGERIA.
BOARD OF AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES to COLONIAL OFFICE.
SIR,
(Received November 26, 1906.)
[Copy to High Commissioner, January 15, 1907, No. 24. L.F.]
[Answered by No. 75.]
4, Whitehall Place, London, S. W., November 24, 1906.
I AM directed by the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries to advert to Mr. Antrobus's letter of the 17th ultimo (No. 35092/1906),† with reference to the
(A. 95/A.)
1 am, &c.,
T. H. ELLIOTT,
Secretary.
Enclosure in No. 62.
MEMORANDUM of the Conditions on which Temporary Veterinary Inspectors for the purposes of the Diseases of Animals Acts, 1894 and 1896, are engaged by the Board of Agriculture.
1. The cngagement may be terminated upon one calendar month's notice being given on either side, and any Certificate of Appointment, which may be forwarded by the Board to the Veterinary Inspector, is to be returned to the Board on the termination of the engagement.
2. The salary will be at the rate of £250 a year.
3. The salary will be paid monthly.
4. The Veterinary Inspector will be stationed in such town or place as the Board may from time to time direct. The Veterinary Inspector is to return to his station every evening except when his official duties prevent him from doing so.
5. Subsistence allowance will be allowed at the rate of 15s. for each night on which the Veterinary Inspector may be absent on duty from his station, or from his home. When the Veterinary Inspector is ordered to London on duty no travelling expenses between the Offices of the Board and the place at which the Veterinary Where the Inspector may stay in London or its neighbourhood will be allowed. Veterinary Inspector is ordered to change his station, subsistence allowance at the above rate will be allowed for a period not exceeding seven nights.
6. The actual expenses of locomotion will be allowed, but in any case where a conveyance is necessary the journey should be made, where practicable, by means of public conveyances. The Inspector is to travel second class on railways, except where there is no second class accommodation in the particular train in which he is travelling, and where waiting for a train with second class accommodation would cause inconvenience to the public service. A form for making a return of these expenses will be supplied to the Veterinary Inspector.
7. The Veterinary Inspector is to have no claim to superannuation allowance
or any gratuity or compensation whatever on retirement or discharge.
8.
The services of the Veterinary Inspector are to be considered to be at all times at the disposal of the Board, and he is not to engage in private practice of any kind at any time during his engagement.
T. H. ELLIOTT,
Board of Agriculture,
March, 1901.
Secretary.
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† No. 54.
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No. 63.
NORTHERN NIGERIA.
ACTING HIGH COMMISSIONER WALLACE to THE EARL OF ELGIN.
(No. 505.)
MY LORD,
(Received November 30, 1906.)
[See No. 75.]
Government House, Zungeru, October 30, 1906. I HAVE the honour to transmit to you herewith copies of reports I have received from time to time in regard to cattle disease in Northern Nigeria.
2. I should be much obliged if your Lordship could submit these reports to experts and obtain from them advice as to the best means of dealing with future outbreaks among the cattle in the Protectorate.
3. I may add that the cattle plague passed over the Hausa States in 1892-3 and practically annihilated the cattle, not sparing game.
I have, &c.,
WM. WALLACE,
Acting High Commissioner.
Enclosure 1 in No. 63.
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Enclosure 3 in No. 63.
REPORT on the Munshi Cattle.
Mr. Gewera entrusted me with four herds of cattle from the Munshi country last February, to find out whether they are, as they are according to native report, immune from trypanosome.
Of these only three now remain, one having died on April 20th. I was able to obtain conclusive proof that trypanosome was the cause of death by the examina- tion of the blood from the peripheral circulation, liver and spleen; in all three examinations I found the blood swarming with the trypanosome. The external symptoms of death were a falling off in condition, bad coat, these in spite of a good appetite up to the time of death, running at the nose and eyes.
Two out of the remaining three are now infected, and will be kept to see the symptoms.
I may say that at Amar I have obtained numerous specimens of tsetse fly (Glossina Tachinoides) every month during my residence (September, 1905, to June, 1906), so it proves that at no time of the year is the station free from the fly.
During the wet season fly abound and even invade the European bungalows. No horses or cattle are able to live at Amar during the rainy season.
In the dry season the fly keep to the river bank; so I recommend officers not to send their horses to water, but to have water brought up.
On September, 1905, my English dog died from trypanosome, no doubt con- tracting the disease here.
Amar,
June 5, 1906.
H. GORDON LEWER,
Medical Officer, Muri.
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
Reference :-
TTILL C.O. 885
20 PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC- COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH-NOT TO
THE CHIEF TRANSPORT OFFICER,
Zungeru,
Damgeri, January 6, 1906. DURING my visit to the Mounted Infantry Company stationed here, Mr. Paul, D.S.O., has brought to my notice the heavy mortalities amongst transport animals here at present in his charge. I have taken the opportunity of investigating cause of mortality and find it to be due to contagious pleuro-pneumonia (known also as Jung sickness, South Africa; lung plague, Northern States, &c.). As far as I can gather from native sources, the disease would appear to be widespread in this district.
As to method to be employed in lessening mortality, preventive inoculation, it is unnecessary for me here to do further than mention it, bearing in mind that. Lieutenant Porteous, Army Veterinary Department, is a member of your staff.
F. H. CARR, Captain,
Army Veterinary Department,
Veterinary Officer,
The Mounted Infantry,
Northern Nigeria Regiment.
Enclosure 2 in No. 63.
EXTRACT from Medical Officer, Katsena, December Sanitary Report.
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The last rain of the rainy season fell on October 9th. A slight shower fell on the 16th December. This, the natives say, has not occurred for about 15 years; it was followed by extreme cold. During that cold season also the cattle suffered severely from some epidemic which started at Katagum and spread through Kano and Damagaram to Katsena and Maradi and then to Gober and Sokoto. Whole herds of 50 and 100 were wiped out. They trace the infection of the Katsena cattle to a bullock that came with produce from Damagaram to the market here; it died the day after its arrival, and the day following its death two or three Katsena cattle commenced to sicken and the infection spread rapidly through the whole district. Horses, donkeys, goats, and sheep escaped."
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Enclosure 4 in No. 63.
MEDICAL OFFICER. East Bornu, Northern Nigeria, to the PRINCIPAL MEDICAL OFFICER,
SIR
Zungeru.
I HAVE the honour to enclose, in this outgoing mail, a bottle containing two nosteris of lung (preserved in methylated spirit) taken from the carcase of an ox which died recently at Maifoni.
Since December, 1905, a large number of Bornu oxen have been ailing and dying from some disease characterised by:---
(1) Wasting and loss of appetite.
(2) Cough.
(3) Purulent discharge from nose.
It is evidently pulmonary in origin. I could find no microscopical trace of tubercle, and all the other organs except the lungs appeared to be sound in those I examined post mortem. The greater portion of the lungs of the ox (from which I cut out portions of tissue) was replaced by a pathological tissue yellowish in colour and coarsely resicular. It had somewhat the appearance of hydatids, and sections placed in water usually sank. A horse and also a pet gazelle died apparently from the same cause and another ox died yesterday.
I send you the specimens of tissue in case you are interested and, meanwhile, to make sections, though I fear the spirit has hardened the tissue a good deal.
I have, &c.,
Maifoni,
June 23, 1906.
THE ACTING RESIDENT,
Sokoto Province,
ALLAN C. PARSONS,
West African Medical Staff,
Medical Officer, East Bornu.
Enclosure 5 in No. 63.
I HAVE the honour to forward you, in compliance with your request, a copy
of notes made by me from information supplied by the various headmen of the