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Africa. Sleeping sickness may be present in a district for a consider- able period without its nature being recognised.
C. The bionomics of the tsetse fly, with special reference to means for its
destruction.
The School consider that medical experts, specially detailed to make these investigations, should be stationed in districts where they would have the best facilities for reporting definitely on the three points named in the preceding paragraph.
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3. I am to request that the map which accompanied Sir A. Sharpe's despatch
of the 30th of June* may be returned when done with.
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I am, &c.,
FRED. GRAHAM.
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
Reference :-
C.O. 885/
9PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC-
COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH-NOT TO
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SIR,
No. 78.
MEDICINE.
I am, &c.,
A. H. MILNE.
COLONIAL OFFICE to THE LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL
Downing Street, October 9, 1906.
I AM directed by the Earl of Elgin to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 2nd instant* on the subject of the measures which should be taken with a view to preventing the spead of sleeping sickness into the British Central Africa Protectorate.
2. Lord Elgin has now received a telegramt in reply to his despatch of August 23rd,‡ recommending the acceptance of the offer of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine to send out two experts to the country in order to study the local conditions and suggest precautionary measures.
3. His Lordship therefore wishes me to say that if, as he understands, the School are ready to pay the salaries of the two gentlemen selected, he will at once recommend to the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, whom it is necessary to consult, that free passages to and from, and free transport in, the Protectorate should be provided for them from Government funds, and that free quarters and a subsistence allowance not exceeding 10s. a day should be defrayed from the same
source.
4. Lord Elgin desires to take this opportunity of expressing his thanks to the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine for their generosity in making the offer referred to.
5. It is presumed that the two officers selected will not start for the British Central Africa Protectorate until the middle or end of January, 1907, otherwise they would arrive before the conclusion of the rains.
I am, &c.,
FRED. GRAHAM.
No. 80.
UGANDA.
COMMISSIONER H. HESKETH BELL to THE EARL OF ELGIN. (Received 7.50 p.m., October 11, 1906.)
TELEGRAM.
[Answered by No. 84.]
No. 55. Referring to your despatch, No. 243, 25th August,† Medical Board, composed of Principal Medical Officer and six other medical officers, report strongly in favour of retention of Entebbe headquarters of administration, Kampala con- sidered unsuitable. In their opinion, risk of sleeping sickness Europeans extremely small and material decrease natives. With this view I concur.
All my chief officers agree unanimously. temporarily interrupted; contractors losing by delay.
Please telegraph instructions proceed with public works
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No. 81.
BRITISH CENTRAL AFRICA PROTECTORATE: NORTH-EASTERN
RHODESIA.
ACTING COMMISSIONER PEARCE to THE EARL OF ELGIN.
(No. 239.)
MY LORD,
(Received October 16, 1906.)
Government Offices, Zomba,
British Central Africa, August 27, 1906.
I HAVE the honour to transmit, for your Lordship's information, a memoran- dum on sleeping sickness in North-Eastern Rhodesia, with a sketch-map which has been received from the Administrator of that territory.
I have, &c.,
F. B. PEARCE,
Deputy Commissioner.
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SIR,
No. 79.
COLONIAL OFFICE to THE ROYAL SOCIETY.
Downing Street, October 10, 1906.
I AM directed by the Earl of Elgin to transmit to you copies of corre- spondences with His Majesty's Commissioner
Sir A. Sharpe, June 30.
To Sir A. Sharpe, August 23. Major Pearce, Telegram 35, September 29.
for the British Central Africa Protectorate on the subject of the measures which should be taken in order to prevent the spread of sleeping sickness into that territory, together with the map enclosed in Sir A. Sharpe's despatch of the 30th of June.||
2. Lord Elgin thinks that this correspondence may be of interest to the Royal Society.
SIR,
Enclosure 1 in No. 81.
ADMINISTRATOR OF NORTH-EASTERN RHODESIA to COMMISSIONER.
Fort Jameson, August 18, 1906.
I HAVE the honour to forward herewith copy of a report on sleeping sickness
on the borders of North-Eastern Rhodesia for your information.
I have, &c.,
ROBERT CODRINGTON,
Administrator.
MEMORANDUM ON SLEEPING SICKNESS.
It has now been definitely ascertained that there is no sleeping sickness in North-Eastern Rhodesia. During observations extending over a period of three months, during which time the entire Anglo-Congolese border has been investigated, not only has no case of the disease been found in North-Eastern Rhodesia, but no
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