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Southern Rhodesia, and I hope soon to hear that you have found one at home, who should go by Broken Hill to the Luapula direct.

Dr. Spillane leaves in a fortnight for Madona and will examine the whole of the Luapula and Mweru districts for any cases of sleeping sickness, and will meet Dr. Kinghorn there. Should they report the necessity, I will cable home for another medical man,

who must have training in sleeping sickness. In your letter of 30th March you stated that you might cable at an early date about legislation necessary to enable us to deal with the unauthorized entrance into this territory of persons reasonably believed to be infected with sleeping sickness. The few regulations submitted by Mr. Codrington to His Majesty's Commissioner have been sent home for the approval of the Secretary of State. They were really needed for immediate use and for a specific purpose. For the complete control of the movements of natives, much more comprehensive regulations will be needed; these will now be drafted and, unless I hear from you, will be submitted for approval.

There is some traffic from the north of Nyasa through Kasama to the Congo, principally, if not entirely, from Kambove. By closing the ferries on the Luapula and allowing no carriers to cross into the Congo, this traffic will have to be taken on by Congo natives from the west side of the river, and orders have been given that the landing-places be cleared of all jungle for a radius of 200 yards. As a further precautionary_measure, I have instructed Magistrates and Native Commis- sioners on the route, Nyasa to Luapula, that no Luapula natives are to be sent further than Kasama for loads; from Nyasa to Kasama they must be carried by men from the eastern districts. Kasama is half-way on the route on high and dry land, where none of the conditions exist for infection. Direct communication between the Congo State and Nyasa will in this manner be broken both at the Luapula and at Kasama. It is not known that conditions favourable to the disease

exist on Nyasa, but if the search there should reveal a single imported case, it might be made sensational.

Without regulations empowering us to enforce the necessary restrictions on the movement of natives, we have to rely on the influence of Native Commissioners and on help from transport agents. As far as our own natives are concerned this may be sufficient for the present, but in the case of Protectorate natives sent through from Nyasa with loads for Kambove, the regulations submitted by Mr. Codrington were necessary in order to prevent them crossing the Luapula into infected areas.

I am, &c.,

L. A. WALLACE,

Acting Administrator.

The Secretary,

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The British South Africa Company,

2, London Wall Buildings, London, E.C.

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the fly which has been found to be sent home (addressed to the London School of Tropical Medicine, Victoria and Albert Dock), in order that it may be ascertained beyond dispute whether it is Glossina palpalis.

27453

SIR,

No. 41.

UGANDA.

TREASURY to COLONIAL OFFICE.

(Received August 2, 1907.)

I have, &c.,

ELGIN.

[Copy to Acting Commissioner, August 16, 1907. No. 208. L.F.] ·

[Answered by 27453 (24 August): not printed.]

Treasury Chambers, July 31, 1907. IN reply to Mr. Antrobus's letter (24568/1907) of the 19th instant,* further respecting the sleeping sickness in Uganda, I am to request you to inform the Earl of Elgin that the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury give their sanction to the expenditure on the proposed segregation, &c., services of the sum of £10,870 included the Protectorate Estimates for the current year under the heading "Medical Department Special Expenditure." They will be glad to learn that the Egyptian Government will continue for 1907/8 its contribution of £1,000, with a view to checking the spread of the disease from the Nile Provinces.

The

It would be of interest to their Lordships to receive copies of any further general reports from the Commissioner on the subject of the segregation experi- ments, &c., in continuation of his despatch, No. 218, of 23rd November last.† experience gained in 1907 may be expected to indicate, before the Uganda Estimates for 1908/9 are settled, how far it is desirable to proceed with the segregation measures after 1907/8.

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No. 42.

I am, &c.,

G. H. MURRAY.

NORTH-EASTERN RHODESIA.

COLONIAL OFFICE to THE BRITISH SOUTH AFRICA COMPANY.

SIR,

Downing Street, July 31, 1907. I AM directed by the Earl of Elgin to acknowledge the receipt of your

letter of the 26th instant, and to transmit to you, as requested, a copy of the North- Eastern Rhodesia Movements of Natives Restricting Regulations, 1907,§ which have been approved by the Secretary of State.

NORTHERN NIGERIA.

THE SECRETARY OF STATE to THE HIGH COMMISSIONER. [Copy to London School of Tropical Medicine, 30 July, 1907. L.F.]

(Confidential.)

[Answered by No. 46.]

SIR,

Downing Street, July 26, 1907. I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Mr. Wallace's confidential despatch of the 12th of March,* from which I have learned with great regret that he believes that the fly which transmits the disease of sleeping sickness has been discovered at and near Zungeru.

2. The despatch was referred to the Sub-Committee of the Advisory Committee for the Tropical Diseases Research Fund. In accordance with their recommenda- tion I have to transmit to you a copy of a despatch from the Commissioner of Uganda on the subject of sleeping sickness in that Protectorate, and a copy of the Sub-Committee's report on the despatch. I should be glad if you would consider whether any of the measures recommended for the repression of the disease in Uganda are applicable to Northern Nigeria, and if you would cause specimens of

No. 16 in Miscellaneous No. 202.

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† No. 100 in Miscellaneous No. 178.

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UGANDA.

I am, &c.,

H. W. JUST.

THE SECRETARY OF STATE to THE ACTING COMMISSIONER. (Sent 11.20 a.m., August 15, 1907.)

TELEGRAM.

August 15. Referring to my telegram of 4 July, full scheme for camps sanc- tioned. ELGIN.

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† No. 100 in Miscellaneous No. 178. No. 39.

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