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the Royal Society on the subject of the spread of the sleeping sickness in Central and Eastern Africa has been forwarded to me through the Foreign Office and Lord Cromer.
In your letter of May 8th* to the Foreign Office, you suggest that the Govern- ment of Egypt should be asked to contribute towards the cost of combating the evil and otherwise co-operate with the Colonial authorities.
As you will see from the inclosed correspondence† (Inclosures 1 and 2) the danger is one that does not appear at present directly to menace Egypt, while for some time past it has formed the object of the anxious attention of the Government of the Soudan, which has devoted considerable sums to the work of investigation.
The Khedivial Government recognises, however, that in question of public health, the interests of the inhabitants of the whole valley of the Nile are identical, and is therefore willing to bear a share of expenses and to contribute £1,000 (one thousand pounds sterling) towards the cost of the extended programme proposed by the Royal Society, and, should the funds at the disposal of the Government admit, the contribution will be continued in 1906 and 1907.
I have given instructions that the first sum of £1,000 shall be forwarded direct from the Ministry of Finance at Cairo to the Crown Agents for the Colonies as soon as the requisite formalities for granting it have been fulfilled.
I enclose, for your information and that of the Royal Society, correspondence and other papers bearing on this subject.
I have, &c.,
VINCENT CORBETT, Financial Adviser to Egyptian Government.
LIST OF PAPERS INCLOSED.
(1.) Sir Horace Pinching to Lord Cromer. May 22, 1905.
(2.)
Mr. J. Currie to Sir R. Wingate. May 30, 1905.
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Dr. Balfour to Sir R. Wingate. May 31, 1905.
(4.) Major Dansey Browning to Sir R. Wingate. June 1, 1905. (5.) Enclosure in preceding.
(7.)
Colonel Phipps to Sir R. Wingate. June 18, 1905.
(8.) Papers sent to "British Medical Journal."
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2. With regard to Mr. Currie's letter of the 30th of May, which formed the second enclosure in your letter, Mr. Lyttelton regrets that from want of information he was not aware of the good work which had been done by the Egyptian Govern- ment in the investigation of sleeping sickness, and he desires to take this opportunity of gratefully acknowledging it.
I am, &c.,
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No. 25.
C. P. LUCAS.
COLONIAL OFFICE to THE ROYAL SOCIETY. [Answered by No. 45.]
I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Lyttelton to transmit to you, with reference
Downing Street, August 9, 1905. to your letter of the 3rd of April,* the accompanying copies of correspondencet relating to sleeping sickness in Uganda, and to state that he would be glad to receive any observations which the Royal Society may be good enough to offer upon these
papers.
2. The report by Dr. Ross, to which Colonel Hayes Sadler refers in the 4th paragraph of his despatch, has been already sent to the Royal Society.
3. With regard to the 9th paragraph of that despatch, it will be seen from the enclosure in Šir Vincent Corbett's letter of the 27th of July that the Egyptian Government are unable to depute any medical officers from the Egyptian Service to study sleeping sickness in Uganda. The Commissioner of the British Central Africa Protectorate will be consulted as the possibility of deputing two of the medical officers of that Protectorate for the purpose.
4. It is understood that the Royal Society consider that there are objections to the proposal to remove the laboratory from Entebbe, and the total amount to be provided for the extended programme of work will depend upon the decision which is taken in the matter; but in the meantime Mr. Lyttelton is asking the Treasury to sanction the appointment of the six additional medical officers who will be required in any case.
I am, &c.,
C. P. LUCAS.
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No. 23.
UGANDA.
MR. LYTTELTON to COMMISSIONER SADLER. (Sent 5.48 p.m., August 8, 1905.) TELEGRAM.
[Answered by No. 27.]
Referring to your telegram, No. 16, what is amount of savings actually avail- able for extended programme of investigation? Is any portion of £1,000 provided for epidemics estimates for current year earmarked for any diseases other than sleeping sickness?
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No. 24.
COLONIAL OFFICE to SIR V. E. H. CORBETT.
Downing Street, August 8, 1905.
I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Lyttelton to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 27th of July,§ with enclosures, and to request you to be good enough to convey to the Egyptian Government his appreciation of their action in so readily contributing towards the expenses of the sleeping sickness investigation in Uganda.
‡ No. 19.
§ No. 22.
• No. 8.
† Not printed.
SCHEDULE OF ENCLOSURES.
Colonial Office to Commissioner. 88. April 28. Colonial Office to Commissioner. 93. May 8. Telegram from Colonial Office. May 30.
Telegram from Commissioner. June 1.
Commissioner to Colonial Office. 65. June 13.
Sir Vincent Corbett to Colonial Office (with enclosures in original). July 27. Colonial Office to Sir Vincent Corbett. August 8.
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No. 28.
CROWN AGENTS to COLONIAL OFFICE.
(Received August 12, 1905.)
Whitehall Gardens, London, S.W., August 11, 1905.
UGANDA.
I HAVE the honour to enclose, for the information of the Secretary of State,
a copy of a letter which we have received from the Financial Adviser of the Egyptian
• No. I.
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† Nos. 4, 9, 14, 16, 21, 22 and 24.
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