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Case 24. (November 25th, 1907.)
Mwandika, male, æet. about 19, of Lake Nyasa, Atonga. Has been at Sumbu for one year, settled on lake shore; fishing. Has visited many villages on the lake shore, including 'Moliro (Congo Free State); strong, healthy-looking boy. Com- Glands + trypano- plains of nothing. Temperature normal. Tongue clean. somes found.
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Case 25. (November 25th, 1907.) Mwanalukanda, male, æt. about 33, of Chinkula's village, 5 miles south of Sumbu. At present working at Sumbu as a builder. Has visited many villages on lake shore and northern border. Has had headaches (fever), but complains of Well nourished and strong. nothing now. Temperature normal. Tongue furred. Glands
trypanosomes found.
1+
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Case 26. (November 28th, 1907.) Kasomo, male, æt. about 30. For many years employed at Kasakalawe, on south shore of Lake Tanganyika as Capitao in the Tanganyika Concessions, Limited. His home is at Mporokoso. Has been at Kasakalawe for 3 years. Constantly on the lake shore, where he is frequently bitten by fly (Palpalis). Has never left the neighbourhood of his station. Glands trypanosomes found. Complains of nothing. Looks strong, well nourished, and healthy, and still doing his work. Tongue clean. Temperature normal. No symptoms.
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TABLE I.
Showing Percentage of Enlarged Cervical Glands among the Natives of North- Eastern Rhodesia living on or near the Anglo-Congolese Border.
District.
Total Number Examined.
'+
10 10 500 4*
Punctured.
+
found Infected.
Punctured, found not Infected.
Glandular Index.
8:4
Luapula
River (infected
1,119
1
10
109
*1
11
10.7
portion).
Luapulu River (uninfected
3,870
4
282
5
7:3
portion).
Mansa River
703
2
92
2
10
14.
Kilwa Island
188
40
3
23.
Kalungwisi River
1,393
112
4
Lake Mweru
3,301
433
10
27
14.
2,504
203
8:5
2,991
282
13
11.
1,014
89
3
9.
17,083
23
81
1,012
27
80
10:2
† Imported case.
Northern border
Lake Tanganyika
Abercorn district
Total
10942
SIR,
• Found by Dr Kinghorn of the Liverpool School Expedition.
No. 10.
NORTH EASTERN RHODESIA.
THE BRITISH SOUTH AFRICA COMPANY to COLONIAL OFFICE.
(Received 28 March, 1908.)
2, London Wall Buildings, London, E.C., 26 March, 1908.
I AM directed to forward, for the information of the Secretary of State, the enclosed copy of the minutes* of a meeting of my Directors, held on the 19th instant, together with the documentst relating thereto.
I am,
&c.,
A. P. MILLAR,
Assistant Secretary.
• Not printed.
† Annexure 8 only printed.
SIR,
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Enclosure in No. 10.
(Annexure No. 8.)
Administrator's Office, Fort Jameson, 1 February, 1908.
As promised in my letter of 20th January, I herewith send you a copy of the rules which I propose to put into force for the prevention of the spread of sleeping sickness. Before publishing them I have sent them to His Excellency the Acting Governor of Nyasaland, in case he should have any suggestions to make for their improvement.
In publishing them I shall declare the Congo Free State and German East Africa to be sleeping sickness area with Madona, on the Luapula, and Abercorn the only entry places.
An area extending to 10 miles from the Luapula, Lake Mweru, the Anglo- Congolese border, and Lake Tanganyika will be declared a sleeping sickness area in North-Eastern Rhodesia, and the guard area will be the country between this sleeping sickness area and a line drawn along the road from Abercorn through Kasama to Luena and thence down Bangweulu and the Luapula.
In order to prevent the chance of infection being carried from the sleeping sickness area into the guard area, all communication between the two areas will, as far as possible, be controlled, and villages within the sleeping sickness area will be removed to places free from fly or, with their watering places, will be cleared of all bush and jungle.
The guard area cuts off from the rest of North-Eastern Rhodesia about one- fourth of its whole extent, and, but for the possibility of imported cases might be considered clean arca.. Owing to the general high position of its eastern boundary and its distance from the sleeping sickness area the danger of infection by short inter-village communication across it is very slight and any such communica- tion with the known foci of infection is extremely improbable. The prevention of all other movement of natives across this boundary should keep the eastern and southern portions of North-Eastern Rhodesia free from infection, and natives from these portions can be recruited for work in Southern and North-Western Rhodesia. Medical examination of the recruits would render all such enlistment safe, for at such a distance newly-infected and unrecognizable cases could hardly present them- selves for enlistment.
If in Southern and North-Western Rhodesia the employment of natives from North-Eastern Rhodesia were prohibited unless such natives were provided with passes from this country, the independent movement of labour would stop. No passes would be given to natives from a sleeping sickness or guard area and no passes need be given to any but those properly recruited by a recognized recruiting agent. The transport route between Broken Hill and Fort Jameson in quite clean country should be kept open, but it may become advisable on this route that natives engaged in transport should be provided with passes.
There is still the inducement held out by the Katanga Mines for our natives The stoppage in the guard and sleeping sickness to move into the Congo State. area of all recruiting or movement to the east and south will add to the induce- ment to go west in search of work. The influence of Native Commissioners and the power given them by the regulations will prevent the movement from being very great, but as recruiting is carried on in the Congo Free State quite near our borders, especially in the tongue of land lying between North-Western Rhodesia and the Luapula, I feel sure that labourers will get away in some numbers to the mines there, and this could only be effectively stopped by the refusal of the Katanga authorities to receive them.
The mines in the endemic area of Katanga have all been closed down and no work whatever is being done there. The Kambove and Ruwe Mines at which work is going on are separated by more than 100 miles of high unpopulated country from the Congo endemic area, and there would be no danger in our natives working in them, but there is danger in their passing to the mines or returning from them through places where sleeping sickness and palpalis exist, as those may do who surreptitiously pass into or return from the Congo,
No
Dr. Kinghorn has sent me a copy of his letters to Mr. Milne, so that I am aware that he recommends that the Luapula should be absolutely closed. commercial considerations stand in the way of this being done, but questions of practical administration do. To absolutely prevent any crossing of Anglo-Congo- lese border would need a large number of stations occupied by white men, with
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