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negroes possessing them to the nearest post of inspection. Each person residing or travelling in uninfected areas must be made personally responsible for the presence of persons with enlarged glands in his following.
9. It is believed that the difficulties of applying these measures will not be as great as might be anticipated.
Natives will soon learn and appreciate the danger of enlarged glands. They have long recognised their significance in Sierra Leone and Uganda.
It will admittedly be impossible to altogether control the movements of indi- -viduals, but it is not from single persons, as a rule travelling only a few miles, that danger is to be apprehended. It is the organised transport of groups of negroes which is dangerous.
10. For particulars of the observations and arguments on which this draft is based, see Memoir XVIII., Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.
May 2, 1906.
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No. 53.
COLONIAL OFFICE to THE ROYAL SOCIETY and LOCAL GOVERNMENT
SIR,
BOARD.
[Answered by Nos. 56 and 61.]
Downing Street, May 12, 1906.
I AM directed by the Earl of Elgin to transmit to you, to be laid before the Royal Society,
the accompanying copy of a letter* which has been the Local Government Board, received from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine enclosing the draft of a report on the prevention of the spread of sleeping sickness.
2. Lord Elgin will be glad to receive any observations which the Tropical Diseases Committee of the Royal Society Principal Medical Officer to the Local Government Board may have to offer on this report.
3.
A similar letter has been addressed to
the Local Government Board. the Royal Society.
[4. (To Local Government Board only) I am to ask that the map which accom- panies the report may be returned.]
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No. 54.
I am, &c.,
R. L. ANTROBUS.
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No. 55.
BRITISH CENTRAL AFRICA.
THE EARL OF ELGIN to COMMISSIONER SIR A. SHARPE.
(No. 114.)
[Answered by Nos, 57 and 71.]
Downing Street, May 18, 1906.
SIR,
I HAVE the honour to transmit to you a copy of a memorandum* which has been drawn up by the staff of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine on the subject of the danger of the spread of sleeping sickness in tropical Africa. Special reference is made, as you will observe, in this memorandum, to the probable spread of the disease to the British Central Africa Protectorate.
2.
You will remember that your attention was called to this matter whilst you were on leave of absence last year, but that at that time you did not see your way to accepting a suggestion that one of the medical staff of the British Central Africa Protectorate should be sent to Uganda to study the question of sleeping sickness.
3. I observe from the enclosures to your despatch, No. 58, of the 15th of March, that you appear satisfied that the Principal Medical Officer and his staff will be able to protect the country as far as that may be possible from the approach of sleeping sickness; but I shall be glad if you will take the memorandum prepared by the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine into your consideration, and report to me whether you now think that any special preventive measures should be taken against this disease.
4. The matter has attracted attention more than once in Parliament during the present session, and it is very important that no precaution should be omitted which could prevent the arrival or spread of the disease in the British Central Africa Protectorate.
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No. 56.
I have, &c.,
ELGIN.
THE ROYAL SOCIETY to COLONIAL OFFICE. (Received June 1, 1906.)
SIR,
Burlington House, London, W., May 30, 1906. THE Tropical Diseases Committee had before them, at their meeting yester- day, your letter of the 12th instant, enclosing a draft of a report on the prevention of the spread of sleeping sickness, drawn up by the staff of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. The suggestions contained in the report, however, being, in the main, concerned with administrative measures, the Committee did not feel themselves in a position to offer any observations upon them.
I am, &c..
ARCH. GEIKIE,
COLONIAL OFFICE to THE LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL
MEDICINE.
Downing Street, May 12, 1906.
SIR,
I AM directed by the Earl of Elgin to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 2nd of May* enclosing the draft of a report on the prevention of the spread of sleeping sickness, especially in Equatorial Africa, and to inform you that the matter is receiving his Lordship's consideration and that a further letter will be sent to you in due course.
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• No. 52.
I am,
&c.,
R. L. ANTROBUS.
Secretary, Royal Society.
No. 57.
BRITISH CENTRAL AFRICA.
COMMISSIONER SIR ALFRED SHARPE to THE EARL OF ELGIN. (Received 3.10 p.m., June 30, 1906.)
TELEGRAM.
[Answered by No. 66.]
June 30. No. 28. Referring to your despatch, No. 114, 18th of May,§ can
• Enclosure in No. 52.
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