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No. 18.
FOREIGN OFFICE to COLONIAL OFFICE.
(Received June 10, 1905.)
[Answered by No. 20.]
The Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs presents his compliments to the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, and, with reference to the letter from the Colonial Office of the 6th instant respecting sleeping sickness in East Africa, is directed by the Marquess of Lansdowne to state that a telegram has been received from His Majesty's Agent and Consul-General at Cairo in which he states that the Egyptian Government are prepared to help in the matter, but that the Royal Society are probably not aware that everything that they require is already being done by the Sudan Government on its own account. Lord Cromer is bringing the papers on the subject home with him and will deal with the question on arrival in London.
Foreign Office,
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June 10, 1905.
No. 19.
UGANDA.
COMMISSIONER SADLER to MR. LYTTELTON.
(Received 7.50 p.m., June 15, 1905.)
TELEGRAM.
[Answered by No. 23.]
No. 16. Proposal to carry out recommendations of Royal Society contained in my despatch, No. 65, yesterday's post.† Expenditure during present financial year estimated at £6,950, of which £1,900 is non-recurring. Suggest this be met from savings on last year; there will be little, if any, savings on this year's sleeping- sickness vote.
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SIR,
No. 20.
COLONIAL OFFICE to FOREIGN OFFICE.
Downing Street, June 22, 1905. I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Lyttelton to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 10th of June, ‡ from which it appears that the Egyptian Government are prepared to help in carrying out the extended programme for the investigation of sleeping sickness in Uganda, and that the Sudan Government have already taken steps to carry out the recommendations contained in Section III. of the Royal Society's letter of the 3rd of April (a copy of which was sent to you in the letter from this Department of the 8th of Mays), with regard to watching the progress of the disease in the Nile Valley, and devising such measures as may seem practicable to limit the passage of infected individuals into tracts of the fly-belt, where the disease has not yet appeared.
2. It is stated in your letter that Lord Cromer is bringing the papers on the subject home with him, and will deal with the question on his arrival in London, and I am to suggest, for the consideration of the Marquess of Lansdowne, that, as his Lordship is now in this country, he should be approached with a view to its being ascertained what contribution the Egyptian Government would be willing to make towards the cost of the extended programme of investigation, in accordance with the proposal made in the letter from this Department of the 8th of May.§
§ No. 8.
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3. The Foreign Office will, no doubt, be able to supply Lord Cromer, if neces- sary, with a copy of the correspondence which has passed between the two Depart- ments on this subject from the 8th of May onwards, and I am to suggest that the accompanying copy of a telegram from the Commissioner of the Uganda Protec- torate should also be communicated to his Lordship. This Department will be glad to furnish him with any further details which he may require.
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(No. 65.)
No. 21. UGANDA.
I am, &c.,
C. P. LUCAS
COMMISSIONER SADLER to MR. LYTTELTON. (Received July 17, 1905.)
SIR,
Entebbe, Uganda, June 13, 1905. WITH reference to your telegram of the 30th ultimo and in continuation of my telegram, No. 14, of the 1st instant, I have the honour to submit the following report and recommendations.
2. On receipt of your despatch, No. 88, of the 28th April,§ I asked Dr. Moffat to formulate his proposals for giving effect to the recommendations of the Royal Society, and at the same time to give me a probable estimate of the cost that would be involved.
3. I have since received your despatch, No. 93, of the 8th ultimo, and have been carefully considering how the proposals could best be carried out in consultation with the Principal Medical Officer, Major Will, Dr. Moffat, the Treasurer and the Superintendent of Public Works.
4. With regard to the experiments on other Tsetse fly referred to in para- graph 2 of the Royal Society's letter, Major Will tells me that the investigations by Dr. Ross on different Tsetse fly were never abandoned, but that the results have been delayed on account of the difficulty of obtaining healthy monkeys for experiment. These experiments are still in progress, and Dr. Ross's report on the results obtained up to date was submitted with my despatch, No. 11, of the 26th April last.¶
5. With regard to paragraphs 3 and 4 of the Royal Society's letter of the 3rd April,** all the long term prisoners in Entebbe have been examined and several are now under observation at the laboratory. This system will be extended when the central jail is completed.
6. In the earlier stages of the epidemic much assistance in the investigation into the conditions of the disease in the various districts was afforded by the officers of the Administration, the missionaries, and the chiefs; this is still being done and renewed instructions are being issued. The information received from these sources however, though valuable in itself, is not sufficiently comprehensive; of necessity it is confined to the parts visited by individuals generally in the course of their tours; the reports of the chiefs and natives are too often vague and untrustworthy, and difficulty is experienced in determining the particular localities to which they refer; more particularly has this been found to be the case with the flies sent in when the names of the places given in which they are said to have been found cannot always be accurately located. Every possible assistance will be given towards the investiga- tion of the disease by the officers of the Administration, and I feel I can speak with equal certainty on behalf of the members of the missionary societies, but our officers are too busily engaged with their own duties to give the time necessary to determine with accuracy the complete distribution of the fly in their districts; to do this with often only one officer available in a district comprising several counties would mean the entire dislocation of the ordinary work of the collectorates. I do not consider that with this agency alone, useful as it will be to help in the general investigation, it will be possible to obtain any more definite results than have already been secured. For a thoroughly systematic investigation into the locality of the fly, both in the Lake regions and the interior, it will be necessary to put the researches over fixed areas in charge of special officers. For instance, there should be one officer for the Entebbe District and Northern Uganda, one for Buddu, one each for Busoga, Ankole and Toro,
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• No. 19. † No. 14.
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