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the natives, and assist the medical officers in their work of tracing natives who were trying to evade the medical authority. All natives leaving the Luapula, Luena, Kasama, Mweru, Tanganyika and Luangwa Districts to work outside North- Eastern Rhodesia must be first examined by a medical officer. All natives with enlarged neck glands must be detained and kept under medical supervision. Employers of labour, missions, and trading companies must allow the administra- tion medical officers free access to the natives in their employ at all times. While much difficulty will be experienced at first with these measures, and however thoroughly carried out, [they] are not expected to realise perfect results, they will certainly delay the approach of the disease, perhaps until such time when curative or other more certain measures can be adopted. The co-operation of the more respon- sible section of the natives must be largely relied upon for much of its success.

The estimated cost of maintaining these precautionary measures is about £2,500 a year made up as follows:

Medical Officer in Charge Medical Officer

Two extra Native Commis-

sioners

40 extra constabulary at £7

per annum

Native staff

A.-Establishments.

£500 "Expert."

400 To relieve Dr. Noble.

600 Two at £300.

280

Pay, uniform, rations.

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enquired fully into this, and find that a boy was left behind sick, but has since completely recovered.

3. Cases reported from Ndola and Bwana Mkubwa mine.-Rumours uncon- firmed. Reports by the Medical Orderly Elmes gave some colour to the suspicion, but subsequent travellers through the District gave it no confirmation.

4. Case reported from Kasempa-unconfirmed. This appears to have been a case of goitre.

5. Case reported at Mongu, Barotse Valley, in February last. This case was then under the observation of a medical missionary. As no confirmation or even any further report on the case had been received from him it is probably not a case of sleeping sickness.

There is, so far, no evidence that any case of sleeping sickness has ever occurred in North-Western Rhodesia, with the possible exception of the case reported at Livingstone in 1905, which can have no present significance.

I am, &c.,

British South Africa Company,

The Secretary,

2, London Wall Buildings, E.C.

26713

No. 39.

ROBERT CODRINGTON.

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

Stores and upkeep

70 Capitao, interpreters, and orderlies.

£1,850

B.-Contingent.

£150 £50 for books and instruments to be

purchased in London.

200 Two medical officers. Travelling expenses of extra Native Commission- ers would be defrayed from Native Affairs Vote.

Travelling on appointment ...

Travelling on duty Temporary buildings...

200 100

£50 each.

£650

Total of Vote ...

£2,500.

Of this £512 would be defrayed from the ordinary Medical Vote for 1907-8, leaving total estimated extra expenditure at £2,000.

J. C. SPILLANE, Principal Medical Officer.

SIR,

NORTH-EASTERN RHODESIA.

THE BRITISH SOUTH AFRICA COMPANY to COLONIAL OFFICE.

(Received July 27, 1907.)

[Copy to Royal Society, October 4, 1907. L.F.] [Answered by No. 42.]

2, London Wall Buildings, London, E.C., July 26, 1907.

I AM directed to refer to my letter of the 23rd instant,* regarding the pre- vention of the introduction of sleeping sickness into Northern Rhodesia, and to transmit, for the information of the Secretary of State, a copy of a letter of the 12th ultimo from the Acting Administrator of North Eastern Rhodesia upon the same subject.

With regard to the third paragraph of this letter, my Directors note that regulations dealing with the unauthorised entrance into North-Eastern Rhodesia of persons reasonably believed to be infected with sleeping sickness have been forwarded for the approval of the Secretary of State. Copies of these regulations have not yet reached this office from the Acting Administrator, and I am to say that the Directors would be much obliged if you would be so good as to forward a copy for their information.

I am, &c.,

D. E. BRODIE,

Secretary.

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SIR,

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Enclosure 3 in No. 38.

Kalomo, North-Western Rhodesia, June 5, 1907. WITH reference to previous correspondence on the subject of sleeping sickness, I have the honour to inform you that none of the reports of the existence of cases of sleeping sickness in North-Western Rhodesia have been in any way confirmed.

1. The case reported from Mwomboshi-I made enquiries into this on my way from Fort Jameson, and found no confirmation whatever. A native was taken seriously ill and died, but there was no evidence that he was not suffering from any serious complaint which might induce a lethargic condition, and the history of his movements during the past year or so showed that he had not been exposed to any risk of infection.

2. The case reported from Feira.—A cattle trader reported that he had left a boy at Serenje whom he supposed to be suffering from sleeping sickness. I have

SIR,

(A. and C.)

Enclosure in No. 39.

Administrator's Office, Fort Jameson, June 12, 1907.

Sleeping Sickness.

I CABLED last week that a medical officer to replace Dr. Noble was urgently required; and after receipt of your answer that you were endeavouring to find two, I, on Dr. Spillane's advice, cabled that only one was at present needed. The appointment of a second medical officer can await the reports from Dr. Spillane and Dr. Kinghorn, as you informed Mr. Codrington the Board had decided in your letter of 30th March. For work in the Luapula district a man with experience in tropical diseases is necessary; it is not probable that we shall get such a one from

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