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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
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B.
REPORT ON Horses in Ada District for the Year Ended 31st December, 1906.
I have the honour to inform you that during the past year there have been six horses and one donkey in the district, and they have all kept well. They are not used for working, and are well fed and watered. Their food is grass and guinea
J. C. MCDOUALL,
Medical Officer.
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C.
REPORT ON Horses in Tarkwa District for the Year Ended 31st December, 1906. There are two horses and two mules in this district. The horses are one from the Gambia and the other from Gambaga, and the two mules from the Canary Islands. All four keep in good condition.
One mule died this year in Tarkwa from sleeping sickness believed to have been contracted at Prestea.
D.
H. CARLAW,
Medical Officer.
REPORT ON Horses in Keta District, for the Year Ended 31st December, 1906.
I have been able to obtain the following information:-
Number of horses in Keta
Cape St. Paul
Jella Kofi
Danoe
Agbosome
8 2
1
1
1
13
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G.
REPORT On Horses in Kumasi District for the Year Ended 31st December, 1906.
On the 1st January, 1906, there were four horses in Kumasi; they were taken on manœuvres, and when they returned three of them died. Between March and December, 29 more were brought into Kumasi of which 14 died. Thus, the balance at the end of the year is 16.
I made blood examinations of, 18 horses during the half year that I was in Kumasi, and found trypanosomiasis in 15, the other three cases were fit and healthy horses, and I did not expect to find any in them; of the 15 cases where I found the The four that are blood infected, four of them are still alive, the rest have died. infected and are at present alive are gradually becoming weaker, and I have no doubt that if they are not dead before the next rains, that they will then die.
The great mortality in the horses was due to their being brought into Kumasi in a very weak condition, many of them being advanced cases of trypanosomiasis. and a number were brought down during the wet season of the year which is, I am convinced, a mistake.
Of the 16 ponies now in hand, eight are at present quite fit and well, four have trypanosomiasis, and four are rather weak, and while not having trypanosomiasis, are not at present fit for hard work.
All fit ponies play polo twice a week, and I find that when the officers are playing polo regularly there is less sickness amongst them (the officers), so for this reason alone I hope the attempt to keep ponies in Kumasi will be persevered in, and I think by the end of this year there will be quite a number of healthy ponies in Kumasi,
H. B. S. MONTGOMERY,
Medical Officer.
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There have been no deaths and no sickness. Horses are taken from Atoko near the Volta to Lome, and beyond without fear of contracting horse sickness.
E.
F. BERINGER,
Medical Officer.
REPORT ON Horses in Obuassi District, for the Year Ended 31st December, 1906. As it is the general belief that horses do not live for any length of time in this town, none have been kept by the European residents here.
Two ponies have, however, been kept by a Hausa man, and as far as can be made out, they have lived here for nearly three years.
I have the word of the owner for it, that neither of the horses has been seriously ill during the period, but I cannot say I am inclined to believe this story.
F.
P. M. TOBIT,
Medical Officer.
REPORT on Horses in Mampon District, for the Year Ended 31st December, 1906.
Total number of horses
during above period.
in the station
1
Total number which died.
Length of time passed in this station.
Number in station at present time.
Transferred
to other districts.
Nil
Two months
Nil
1
(Kumasi),
Remarks. The above horse was in good condition during the whole time passed here,
W. S. WEBB,
Medical Officer.
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REPORT On Ilorses in Wa District, Northern Territories, for the Year Ended 31st December, 1906.
Having only been in the Northern Territories for a very short time, and having had very few opportunities during that time of investigating the subject, my report must necessarily be very incomplete, and of comparatively little value. I have confined my attention almost exclusively to the ticks in their relation to animal sickness, and find that in almost every case in which a particular species is present in considerable numbers, there is concurrent sickness which rapidly improves up to a certain point on removal of the ticks; the tick in question belongs to the Rhipece- phalina, but does not tally with any of the species of which I have a description, but I have sent specimens home for identification. They are found both on cattle and horses, and the blood of each case has been examined microscopically, but although in one ox I found pyroplasmosis, I have not yet sufficient data to express any definite opinion, but when I have investigated a larger number of cases I hope As far as I can discover tsetse fly are to have something definite to report. unknown here, and I consider it a point of great interest that in two oxen which have never been outside Wa I have found trypanosomes in the blood at the time of death. Of course, I realize that on such insufficient data it is absurd to express any definite opinion, but unless I can find any certain evidence of the unsuspected presence here of tsetse fly, one is forced to the conclusion that some agency other person- than tsetse fly is instrumental in conveying trypanosomyasis to cattle, and ally I consider that it is well worth while to turn one's attention to the ticks and tabanidae. A tremendous number of cases must be examined before anything can be positively stated, and I regret that, Wa not being a large cattle centre, I myself shall not have enough material to work with satisfactorily, but when I have collected sufficient cases to work statistics to form a working basis, I will forward them for your opinion.
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Yaws" in horses is apparently fairly common here, and I hope shortly to commence investigating the disease systematically, especially with regard to any connection it may have with a filariasis.
H. T. PALMER,
Medical Office:.