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These maps were distributed to the district medical officers.
Eight maps remaining were issued on 12th February to Principal Medical Officer for issue to district medical officers.
6. The Acting Intelligence Officer has been instructed to send them out as soon as possible. The preparation of these maps takes a considerable amount of time, but from the way in which the work is being done I have every confidence that very valuable information will be obtained.
W. EGERTON
19 February, 1910.
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No. 11.
SIERRA LEONE.
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No. 13.
SOUTH AFRICA (RHODESIA).
THE HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR SOUTH AFRICA to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received 26 March, 1910.)
(No. 146.)
High Commissioner's Office, Johannesburg,
MY LORD,
March 7th, 1910. WITH reference to previous correspondence, I have the honour to enclose for your information a copy of the undermentioned documents on the subject of sleeping sickness in Rhodesia.
I have, &c.,
SELBORNE,
High Commissioner.
(No. 67.)
MY LORD,
THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received 12 March, 1910.)
Government House, Freetown, Sierra Leone,
25th February, 1910. WITH reference to your despatch, No. 16, of the 11th of January,* relative to the preparation of maps illustrating the distribution of tsetse flies, I regret to inform you that the information asked for cannot be supplied at present.
2. The Intelligence Department have prepared a new map of Sierra Leone, and in June last it was understood that copies of the new map would be received in Sierra Leone in August at the latest. The existing maps of the districts and of Sierra Leone have become out of date, and it was thought that the information asked for in your despatch, No. 208, of the 1st of June, 1909,† could be more satisfactorily supplied by using the new maps than by attempting to work upon the old issue. Unfortunately the issue of the new Intelligence maps has been delayed, and conse- quently the Medical Department were unable to commence obtaining information until the 4th of October, 1909, on which date they were supplied with copies of the district maps (old issue) which had had to be obtained from the War Office because the Colonial Government had no copies in store. —
I have, &c.,
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(No. 89.)
MY LORD,
No. 12.
EAST AFRICA PROTECTORATE.
L. PROBYN,
Governor.
THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received 14 March, 1910.)
[Enclosure in original to Treasury, 5 April, 1910. L.F.] [Answered by No. 14.]
Government House, Nairobi, British East Africa,
19 February, 1910.
In reply to your Lordship's despatch, No. 26, of the 13th ultimo, I have the honour to transmit herewith a copy of the " Agricultural Journal for January, containing a full report of the Sleeping Sickness Conference held in April last
year.
2. The preparation and printing of the report have taken a considerable time, and delay has thus been occasioned in submitting to your Lordship.
November 23rd, 1909. December 1st, 1909. February 14th, 1910.
SCHEDULE OF ENCLOSURES.
Despatch, No. 247, from Administrator, Southern Rhodesia. Telegram, No. 626, from Administrator, Southern Rhodesia. Despatch, No. 35, from Administrator, Southern Rhodesia.
Enclosure 1 in No. 13.
The ADMINISTRATOR, Southern Rhodesia, to the HIGH COMMISSIONER. (No. 247.)
MY LORD,
Administrator's Office, Salisbury, 23rd November, 1909. YOUR Lordship has been, no doubt, informed from time to time of the steps which have been taken in North-Eastern and North-Western Rhodesia to check the spread of sleeping sickness, to obtain information as to the districts infested by Glossina palpalis (the known intermediate host of the disease), and to ascertain whether any other biting fly could be suspected of being either a host or mechanical carrier of the disease.
Until the middle of the present year the only portion of North-Eastern Rhodesia in which cases of sleeping sickness had occurred was that district bordering on Ger- man East Africa and the Congo Free State. This area was strictly defined, and no direct communication between it and adjacent districts was permitted. In addition to this precaution, a further area, termed the " guard area," extending between the sleeping sickness area and other parts of North-Eastern Rhodesia, was kept under close supervision. The expression "sleeping sickness" area was used in an adminis trative sense only, and the name did not necessarily imply the presence of infection through every part of it; but within the area mentioned were all the cases of sleeping sickness so far found in North-Eastern Rhodesia, and some 360 to 380 miles of country in which the Glossina palpalis was known to exist. On the rivers and lakes outside this area the fly had not been found.
Within the last few weeks, however, cases have occurred which seem to point to the existence of flies capable of transmitting the disease at a point or points con- siderably to the south of what had previously been regarded as the sleeping sickness limit, and the possibility of the disease being imported from the Congo basin to that of the Zambesi has forced itself upon the consideration of the Governments of the three Rhodesias.
I have, &c.,
E. P. C. GIROUARD,
Governor.
• 16962: Reminder. ↑ No. 33 in Miscellaneous No. 228.
↑ No. 3. § Not reprinted.
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(a) In September I received a report that a European was suffering from sleeping sickness at Broken Hill. This man originally crossed the Zambezi from Salisbury on his way to Chiromo, Nyasaland, vià Meromeu, on the Zambesi, in Portuguese East Africa. In June, 1908, he proceeded from Chiromo to Chimbwe, on the Zambesi, and from there to Chinde, returning viâ Meromeu to Nyasaland. From Nyasa- land he proceeded to Fort Jameson and thence by the mail route to Broken Hill, where he was found to be suffering from sleeping sickness.
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