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facilities readily given, and more particularly to the two first-named, who willingly offered their sick beasts that I might try the effect on them of the new Liverpool method of treatment by atoxyl and mercury.
These experiments have been conducted within the past three weeks, and I may state that the method offers more hopes of success than any hitherto experienced. No previous observations having been made on cattle, it was necessary to use both These the drugs employed with care, in order to ascertain the therapeutic doses. are obtained, and I now propose to find out the most suitable and convenient combi- nations for practical purposes that the treatment may be adopted universally, and if necessary be employed by any stockowner.
You, Sir, will appreciate what the mediate or immediate results to this territory would be if a reliable method for the treatment of "fly disease" could be laid down. Stock-raising would be relieved of its worst enemy, and, by the utilisation of trans- port stock, the most imminent danger of sleeping sickness introduction, as it would no longer be necessary to employ the vast number of native carriers at present engaged between the infected districts of the Congo Free State and this country.
Further, as already indicated, the treatment in the lower subject would only require minor alteration to apply to the human patient, and individual treatment of the disease would then form a line of defence behind that constituted by the pre- ventive measures, which must be adopted on economic grounds.
I cannot see that my time could be better spent than in working on this problem, and I propose staying in the locality for this object until the completion of the experiments-a period of about four weeks.
Actual treatment will be undertaken in eleven cases of the disease kindly placed at my disposal by Mr. J. F. F. Johnson, but in order to lay the observations on a thoroughly sound scientific and practical footing, I desire to control certain observa- tions on animals in which the duration of disease is definitely known. For this purpose healthy cattle will be required, and I would ask whether you could autho- rise me to expend in the purchase of these a sum not exceeding fifty pounds.
I have, &c.,
His Honour the Administrator,
P. E. MONTGOMERY.
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improving veterinary administration in Crown Colonies and Protectorates, I have the honour to transmit, herewith, a copy of a memorandum which the Premier of this State has addressed to me on the subject.
I have, &c.,
FRED. G. D. BEDFORD,
Governor.
Enclosure in No. 179.
PREMIER to GOVERNOR.
With reference to Your Excellency's letter of the 17th April last, covering a despatch from the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies, dated 22nd March, on the subject of improving veterinary administration in Crown Colonies and Protectorates, I have the honour to inform you that the despatch has received earnest consideration by my colleague, the Honourable Minister for Agri- culture, but it is not considered practicable to generally adopt the arrangements so far as this State is concerned.
My Government, at the same time, recognise that the rendering of assistance in connection with the selection of suitable candidates for the positions referred to is one which might be availed of when the opportunity arises.
The necessity for taking every possible step for the prevention of the spread of disease is one of the greatest importance, and, I may assure Your Excellency, receives every attention by the Agricultural Department.
August 30, 1907.
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N. J. MOORE,
Premier.
North-Western Rhodesia, Kalomo.
August 16, 1907.
SIR,
I AM directed to acknowledge the receipt of your report, dated Broken Hill, the 25th of July, to His Honour the Administrator, and to thank you for the same. With regard to the first of your suggestions, viz., that you should remain for a time in the locality of Broken Hill to pursue your investigations, His Honour has no comments to offer.
As to the second, the purchase of oxen for the purpose of experiments in treat- ment of trypanosomiasis, am to inform you that the Northern Copper Company have offered to bear half such a total expenditure up to £50, and that you are authorised to spend this sum (£50) as you suggest.
SOUTHERN NIGERIA.
ACTING GOVERNOR THORBURN to THE EARL OF ELGIN. (Received October 4, 1907.)
[Copy of Enclosure to the Society for the Preservation of the Wild Fauna of the Empire.
(No. 534.)
October 11, 1907. L.F.] [Order sanctioned, October 11, 1907, No. 875. L.F.]
September 14, 1907.
Government House, Lagos, Southern Nigeria,
[Published as No. 33 in [Cd. 4472], January, 1909.]
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
Reference :-
C.O. 885
20 PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC- COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH-NOT TO
Dr. Montgomery,
Sleeping Sickness Commission,
I have, &c.,
E. H. C., Private Secretary.
Broken Hill, North-Western Rhodesia.
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WESTERN AUSTRALIA.
GOVERNOR SIR F. G. D. BEDFORD to THE EARL OF ELGIN.
(No. 30.)
MY LORD,
(Received September 30, 1907.)
Government House, Perth, September 2, 1907. In reply to your circular despatch of the 22nd March last,* with reference to
• No. 106.
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SIR,
No. 181.
UGANDA.
MR. H. HESKETH BELL to COLONIAL OFFICE. (Received October 5, 1907.)
Paris, October 4, 1907. I HAVE had the advantage of a conversation with Mr. Stockman, of the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, touching the importation of Angora goats and Mysore cattle into Uganda. I believe that he agrees with me in thinking that, by taking reasonable precautions, the animals might be introduced without much Mr. Stockman was kind risk of bringing new diseases into the Protectorate. enough to promise me his kind offices in this matter, and I beg to suggest that he be asked to procure from Asia Minor, for the Government of Uganda, two rams and four ewes of good Angora breed. The animals need not be of particularly high-class strain, but it is essential that they should be thoroughly healthy. Wher