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any greater precautions or any more elaborate preventive measures than those I have suggested.

The weak point is obviously the fact that North-Eastern Rhodesia natives are allowed to enter the Congo at all, but this point has been taken into very careful consideration, and it is thought that any attempt to debar natives from going to work in the Tanganyika Concessions sphere or the adoption of any general quaran tine measures on their return is likely to fail as long as there is money to be earned in the Congo, and it is better that the usual free stream should pass our inspection posts than that a smaller forbidden one should evade them. We may rely upon the officials of the Tanganyika Concessions to keep us informed of the progress of the diseas in that country, to employ Rhodesian natives in uninfected areas only and to take special precautions in any case where any of them may be unavoidably or accidentally exposed to infection.

The sticani of labour passing across the Madona Ferry and through the southern part of the Congo towards the railway and mines in North-Western Rhodesia passes through an uninfected area and, for the present at any rate, may be considered perfectly safe. As regards the Congo boundary with North-Western Rhodesia my impression is that there is no movement of population on the border, certainly the endemic area in the Congo has not extended to anywhere near that region, and there seems at present no danger to be apprehended.

On such matters as these I expect we shall receive information and advice from Dr. Sheffield Neave and the medical officers of the Tanganyika Concessions, and this, with the experience and observation of our own medical officers on the Luapula and Lake Mweru, should enable us to decide, before it is two late, if any stricter preventive measures than those I am advising should be established. Fort Jameson,

SIR,

February 2, 1907.

Enclosure 2 in No. 21.

(Confidential.)

ROBERT CODRINGTON.

Administrator's Office, North-Eastern Rhodesia, WITH reference to my letter of this date on the subject of sleeping sickness,

Fort Jameson, February 1, 1907. I have to confirm my cablegram reading as follows:-

"Sleeping sickness. Expert doctor suggests he should be engaged two years in charge of operations. With remuneration of £100 to £500. Stoehr not suitable. Writing."

It is quite evident that a very great deal depends on the energy and intelligence of the medical officer who is to direct any preventive measures against sleeping sickness, and I wish to supersede Mr. Noble by placing in charge a man more recently from the Tropical Schools. I understand that Dr. Stochr is a candidate for any medical appointment in North-Eastern Rhodesia, and I should have no hesitation in accepting him for any subordinate post, but I do not consider him suitable to conduct and direct such investigations and preventive measures as are likely to become necessary.

I am, &c.,

The Secretary,

The British South Africa Company,

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No. 22. UGANDA.

ROBERT CODRINGTON.

THE SECRETARY OF STATE to THE COMMISSIONER.

(No. 83.)

SIR,

[Answered by No. 31.]

Downing Street, March 23, 1907.

I HAVE read with great interest your despatch, No. 218, of the 23rd of

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November, 1906, and I desire to express my appreciation of the careful and thorough manner in which, in conjunction with Lieutenant-Colonel Will and Dr. Hodges, you have worked out a scheme for coping with the epidemic of sleeping sickness in Uganda.

2. Some of your proposals, however, are of a far-reaching nature, and I am anxious that the whole maiter should be carefully discussed with my expert advisers in this country before I ask the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury to sanction the expenditure involved.

3. I am proceeding with the matter as rapidly as possible, and, in the mean- time. I approve of your having established the segregation camp for Busiro to which you refer in the 41st paragraph of your despatch.

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No. 23.

I have, &c.,

ELGIN.

BRITISH CENTRAL AFRICA PROTECTORATE: UGANDA. THE LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE to COLONIAL OFFICE.

SIR,

(Received April 15, 1907.)

[Answered by 13068 and 13068 (April 15 and 16): not printed.]

B 10, Exchange Buildings, Liverpool, April 13, 1907. Sleeping Sickness Expedition of the School.

REFERRING to your letter of the 20th of March,† I have to inform you that, as

at present arranged, the Sleeping Sickness Expedition of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, consisting of Dr. Alan Kinghorn and Mr. Montgomery, will sail for South Africa on the 4th or 11th of May.

I should be glad to know whether, in accordance with your letter above referred to, I may apply to the Crown Agents for the Colonics for the £100 towards the expenses of the expedition.

I am also to ask whether it would suit you to receive the two doctors of the expedition on the 17th or 18th instant at 3 p.m., as it is most desirable that they should explain, in the course of a conversation, the methods they propose to adopt in carrying on the work of the expedition. I should be much obliged if you could kindly telegraph your reply.

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I am, &c.,

A. H. MILNE.

FOREIGN OFFICE to COLONIAL OFFICE. (Received April 19, 1907.)

The Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs presents his compliments to

the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, and, by direction of the Secretary of State, transmits herewith copy of the under-mentioned paper.

Foreign Office,

April 18, 1907.

DESCRIPTION OF ENCLOSURE.

Name and Date,

Subject.

IIis Majesty's Minister at Brussels, No. 52, Africa, Sleeping sickness on frontier between Rhodesia

April 8.

* No. 100 in Miscellaneous No. 178.

and Congo Free State.

† No. 71.