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SIR,

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No. 28.

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

MEDICINE.

[Copy to Commissioner, April 26, 1907. No. 120. L.F.]

Downing Street, April 26, 1907.

I AM directed by the Earl of Elgin to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 23rd instant,* notifying the date on which the Sleeping Sickness Expedition to Central Africa will leave England, and to convey to you his Lordship's good wishes for the success of the expedition.

The Officer Administering the Government of the British Central Africa Protectorate will be asked to make arrangements to forward to Kalomo any mail which may be awaiting the expedition at Zomba.

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(No. 52.) MY LORD,

No. 29.

GAMBIA.

I am, &c.,

H. W. JUST.

THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received May 14, 1907.)

Government House, Bathurst, Gambia, April 23, 1907. WITH reference to your Lordship's despatch, No. 33, of the 8th ultimo, † I have the honour to forward a report by the Senior Medical Officer on a case of sleeping sickness which has been under atoxyl treatment in the Colonial Hospital.

2. Later on I hope to furnish a similar report on Police Constable Savage, who is now in hospital suffering from the same disease.

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encouraging, and although it is not dealing with the cause of this disease, viz., the tsetse fly, a much more difficult matter, yet it is likely to be productive of much good if only the patients can be located early and action taken.

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No. 30.

BRITISHI CENTRAL AFRICA PROTECTORATE.

T. H.

THE LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE to COLONIAL OFFICE.

SIR,

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(Received May 15, 1907.)

[Answered by No. 32.]

B 10, Exchange Buildings, Liverpool, May 14, 1907. Sleeping Sickness Expedition of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.

I HAVE the honour to enclose, for your information a rough outline of the proposed itinerary of the above-named expedition, which left England on May 4th, that they have sent to me. On arrival, Dr. Kinghorn will proceed in one direction and Mr. Montgomery in another, but they have arranged to meet at various stations for the purpose of comparing notes. The itinerary, however, is subject to alteration. With regard to the subsistence allowance to be made to the members of the expedition I should be glad to know how it is usual for such grants to be paid, when the address of the recipients is uncertain. If necessary, the allowance could be paid into the banking accounts in England of the members of the expedition and drawn against the same in Africa.

I am, &c.,

A. H. MILNE,

Secretary.

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

Reference :-

C.O.885

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I have, &c.,

GEORGE C. DENTON,

Governor.

Enclosure in No. 29.

REPORT BY THE SENIOR Medical Officer.

HONOURABLE COLONIAL SECRETARY,

April 12, 1907. THE treatment indicated by Sir l'atrick Manson is already in vogue in this Colony and one case that has been in hospital since December 28th, a boy named Momodu Jobati, sent in by Dr. Hopkinson from the Protectorate, appears to have derived considerable benefit from atoxyl. He was nearly always sleeping on admis- sion and trypanosomes were found in the peripheral blood; at the present time he is lively and apparently in normal health and no trypanosomes can be found in his blood, but it is desirable to keep him under observation for some time longer. I should mention too that one cannot now palpate his cervical glands.

2. On the 11th instant Police. Constable Savage was admitted to hospital suspected to be suffering from trypanosomiasis-he is always sleeping and his cer- vical glands are enlarged-this morning I examined the gland piece and found abundance of trypanosomes under the microscope but failed to find them in the ' peripheral blood.

He is now under atoxyl treatment and careful notes will be kept of his progress or otherwise.

3. The natives in the Protectorate and elsewhere should be induced to report all cases of sleeping sickness and all those persons with hard shotty glands in the neck-a symptom they are cognizant with-in order that assistance may be rendered.

4. The atoxyl treatment has taken hold of the profession and is certainly

† L.F. transmitting copy of No. 12,

• No. 27.

Enclosure in No. 30.

Sleeping Sickness Expedition of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.

Dr. A. Kinghorn.

First Stage:-

Kalomo. Mwomboshi.

Mkushi.

Petanke.

Serenje.

Sakontwi.

Up River Luapula. Madona.

Second Stage:-

Madona. Luena. Chicaka.

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Imporokoso. Chimpili Hills.

Kasama. Fife.

Third Stage:-

Fife. Nyala. Mirongo. Katumbi.

Fort Jameson.

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Mr. R. E. Montgomery.

First Stage:-

Kalomo. Broken Hill. Kansanshi. River Lufira. Madona.

Second Stage : -

Madona. River Luapula. Lake Mweru. Kalungwisi.

Imporokoso. Katwe. Abercorn.

Fife.

Third Stage:-

Fife.

Nyala.

Karonga.

Lake Nyassa; British Central Africa

Protectorate.

Across British Central Africa.

Fort Jameson.

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