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action, to survey these rivers as the demand on their time permitted them, and draw up a list of:
(a) Such ferries and crossings as it may be advisable to clear, so as to render
the approaches fly-free;
(b) Such watering places connected with villages impossible to remove, but which, sufficiently cleared, might guarantee a certain amount of safety to the inhabitants;
(c) Of all weirs and fishing grounds with the intent of destroying the former,
and closing down of latter.
I think it would be advisable if definite instructions were issued to Mr. North- cote to proceed with this matter at once, paying compensation if necessary. would appear to be a tendency amongst the natives themselves to forgo fishing in There these waters owing to the danger of infection.
5. Mr. O'Meara, the surveyor, began his work of mapping out the settlement area marked D and C on Dr. Wiggins's map on the 10th. It is hoped later on that this district may be utilized for the infected coastal clans lying between Karungu . and Kisumu and for the islands lying off Kisingiri Mountain.
I returned to Kisumu, viá Kongo Bay, on the 12th.
Nairobi, 19th January, 1909.
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A. D. MILNE,
Acting Principal Medical Officer.
No. 8.
NYASALAND,
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SIR,
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No. 9.
EAST AFRICA.
THE ROYAL SOCIETY to COLONIAL OFFICE. (Received May 5, 1909.)
[Copy to Governor, East Africa Protectorate, No. 245, and to Governor, Uganda, No. 133, 7 May, 1909. L.F. See No. 23.]
[Answered by L.F. transmitting copy of No. 10 and by No. 12.] The Royal Society, Burlington House,
London, W., May 4th, 1909.
THE attention of the Royal Society has been recently called to the incidence of sleeping sickness and other trypanosome diseases in British East Africa as well as in Uganda, and on consideration of the whole subject has come to the conclusion that great assistance in devising means of preventing the spread of those diseases might be derived from a conference of local medical officers and Administrators, Having regard to the very grave effect of trypanosome diseases, both in men and in animals, upon the development of the country, it seems to the Royal Society that such a conference, composed of medical (including veterinary) officers in British East Africa and Uganda, together with representatives of the Adminis- tration of those Protectorates, with power to collect evidence as regards both human and animal trypanosomiasis, and to make recommendations to the Government, might be of great service in guiding the Government as to both preventive and remedial measures. The Royal Society therefore venture to urge upon His Majesty's Secretary of State the desirability of organising such a Conference with as little delay as possible, and whilst the Society's Commission, under Sir David Bruce, still is in Uganda.
I am, &c.,
JOHN ROSE BRADFORD,
Secretary, Royal Society.
THE SECRETARY OF STATE to THE GOVERNOR.
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(No. 49.) SIR,
Downing Street, 12 March, 1909.
I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatches, No. 310, of the 27th of November, No. 325, of the 11th of December, and No. 336, of the 16th of December,* on the subject of the measures taken to prevent the spread of sleeping sickness in the Nyasaland Protectorate.
2. I have communicated copies of your despatches and their enclosures to the Managing Committee of the Sleeping Sickness Bureau, and they concur with me in appreciating highly the pains which have been taken in the investigation of the disease and in drafting rules to minimise the possibility of the entrance of sleeping sickness into Nyasaland. They have also observed with much satisfaction that the evidence appears to show that sleeping sickness is not likely to become endemic in the Protectorate.
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3. The Managing Committee have drawn my attention to the wording of the Entry Pass set out in Schedule 4 of the Rules enclosed in your despatch, No. 336.† In that pass it is stated that so-and-so " has been medically examined for trypano- somiasis and has been found free from infection. He is hereby permitted to enter district." The Committee point out that the diagnosis of sleeping sickness in the early stages of the disease is one of extreme difficulty and doubt, and that, therefore, there is some risk of misunderstanding if the certificate states that the native has been found free from infection. They suggest that it should be altered by the omission of the words " and has been found free from infection "; it will then be understood that a native who is permitted to enter does not show clear traces of trypanosomiasis, while at the same time no certificate of doubtful accuracy will be given.
I have, &c.,
Nos. 2, 5, and 6.
† No. 6.
No. 10. UGANDA.
THE SECRETARY OF STATE to THE GOVERNOR.
(Sent 11.55 a.m., 6 May, 1909.)
TELEGRAM.
[Copy to the Royal Society, 7 May, 1909. L.F.]
[Answered by No. 11.]
Royal Society are of opinion that great assistance in devising means of prevent- ing the spread of trypanosome diseases in Uganda and the East Africa Protec- torate might be derived from a conference of local Administrators and medical and veterinary officers. The East Africa Protectorate authorities have, I understand, communicated with you on the subject, and you should arrange conference with them as soon as possible. Sir D. Bruce and his colleagues should, of course, be included in the conference.-CREWE.
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No. 11. UGANDA.
THE ACTING GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received June 12, 1909.)
[Answered 2 April, 1910; (7668) in Miscellaneous No. 254.]
CREWE.
(No. 101.)
MY LORD,
Government House, Uganda, 8th May, 1909.
I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Lordship's telegram
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