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C.O.885

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No estimate for work of this nature can be accurate in its detail, but a certain (certainly small) latitude has been allowed for contingencies. The cost of main- tenance should be lessened year by year as villages are moved and other conditions improved. Every item has been carefully considered with a view to effecting the strictest economy.

Madona Station:-

Buildings Maintenance

Mweru Station:-

Buildings Maintenance

Sumbu Station:-

Buildings

Maintenance

Expenditure till March 31st, 1908.

Total

Yearly Expenditure.

Madona Station: --

Establishment Contingent

Mweru Station:-

Establishment Contingent

Sumbu Station:-

Establishment Contingent

Total, £3,025.

VII. Regulations.

The following regulations are recommended:

£100

140

£240

£50

100

150

£50

100

150

540

£750

275

£1,025

£700 325

£1,025

£700

275

£975

(1) Restrictions regulating the movements of natives into and out of the

sleeping sickness areas.

(2) Restrictions regulating the movements of Europeans into and out of

sleeping sickness areas.

(3) Regulations as to transport.

(4) The adoption of a pass law and registration of natives throughout the

country.

(5) Prohibition of the recruiting of labour within certain areas.

(6) Suspension of all trading licences within the sleeping sickness areas. Under the present regulations natives are free to go where they like with or without a pass. Not only does this apply to the limits of North-Eastern Rhodesia itself, but to the territories outside it, such as the Congo Free State, the Nyasaland Protectorate, North-Western and Southern Rhodesia. The population over which it is most necessary to exercise the strictest control is the class of working "boy"

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Most of the cases of who travels long distances, often into neighbouring territories, seeking employ- ment at the markets offering the most remunerative wage. sleeping sickness in North-Eastern Rhodesia occur among this class, and having acquired the intection, bring it into the country, and then disseminate it in neigh bouring districts and provinces. I must call attention here, in support of this state. ment, to Case 5 in the Appendix of this report. Here is an instance of a case of sleeping sickness in a man working on the railway in North-Western Rhodesia. He had returned only a week telore I saw him, and was apparently in perfect health. There is no reason why a case like this, with the facility of the railway, should not have travelled even farther afield than this, which, with the presence of Glossina morsitans in Southern Rhodesia, and the possibility of its Leing a factor concerned in the spread of sleeping sickness, at once involves that country in one of the gravest of problems. It is, therefore, imperative that a pass and registration law be introduced into North-Eastern Rhodesia at once, since, by no other means is it any use attempting to control the movements of natives. The control of these wider movements must be absolute, and must apply with equal rigour to natives in the uninfected parts of North-Eastern Rhodesia, and to those in the areas infected with sleeping sickness. It is, therefore, easier, under the existing regulations, to prevent natives entering and leaving the sleeping sickness areas from the Congo than it is to prevent them from entering and leaving them from other parts of North-Eastern Rhodesia; on the one hand, we have a definite Lorder which can be watched and patrolled, while on the other hand we have no definite line at all. It is, therefore, necessary to have a more definite division between the infected and uninfected parts of North-Eastern Rhodesia than the limits of the sleeping sickness area itself. This division should include a sufficiently large area outside the sleep ing sickness areas as to form a buffer between the infected and uninfected, and The advantages of such an area would be which I shall designate "guard area." (1) perfect delineation; (2) additional safeguard; and (3) to enable the sleeping sickness areas to expand or contract according to exigencies without involving changes in the rules regulating the movements of natives to and from the sleeping sickness areas. The line I would suggest would start at the German border, near the Saisi River, and follow the trunk road (already constructed) to Abercorn and Kasama Stations; from there along another road (already constructed) to Luena Station, and thence to the north end of Lake Bangweolo. The Chongolo crossing on the Luapula, left open temporarily for communication with the Luapula District without going round the north end of Bangweolo, should now be closed, leaving the only ferry open on the Luapula at Madona. The three stations- Aber- corn, Kasama, and Luena-may be considered as being outside this area, and designated guard stations.

2. Europeans wishing to proceed beyond the guard stations into the guard area would first report the fact to the Native Commissioner at one of the guard stations stating (1) his destination; (2) reasons for entering the area; (3) the route he intends to take; (4) length of time he will be in the area; (5) the number of natives he requires: (6) the purpose for which such natives are to be employed. No European should proceed beyond a guard station without first obtaining per- mission from the Native Commissioner. All carriers should be changed at the guard stations, and carriers to be used in the guard areas should be recruited from guard areas and vice versa.

3. No transport to enter the guard or sleeping sickness areas except through a guard station. Here the carriers must be changed and taken on only by carriers from the guard or sleeping sickness areas. Europeans living in the guard area may send their own carriers as far as the guard stations. In connection with this arrangement it should be pointed out that the sleeping sickness areas have been delineated so as to include every condition, as far as we have ascertained, concerned in the spread of sleeping sickness. Glossina morsitans, for reasons already stated. has not been considered as a factor at all. Therefore, if a case of sleeping sickness were sent through the guard area no harm could result as long as the conditions necessary for infection did not exist there. The only safeguard necessary in such a case would be to insure the return case to the sleeping sickness area, so as to keep the guard area free from every possible source of infection.

4. Every native of North-Eastern Rhodesia should be registered, and not leave the district or division in which he resides without a pass signed by a Govern- ment Officer.