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TELEGRAMS.

From STACK, Cairo, to GOVERNOR-GENERAL, Khartoum.

15 April, 1908. 5851. Following telegram received by Consul-General from the Foreign Office :-

"Subject to concurrence of Sudan Government is Mr. Balfour of Wellcome Laboratory desirous of being considered with others for appointment as Director of Sleeping Sickness Bureau which it is proposed to establish in London? Appointment for four or five years. Salary five hundred pounds."

From GOVERNOR-GENERAL, Khartoum, to STACK, Cairo.

17 April, 1908. 50-5851. Balfour regrets he cannot consider proposal if he must decide immediately. Glad to consider if time afforded to learn details and receive answer to letter of enquiry to be sent by next mail. To whom at Foreign Office ought such letter to be addressed?

From STACK, Cairo, to GOVERNOR-GENERAL, Khartoum.

19 April, 1908. 5855-59-Noted. Have informed Agency. Letter should be addressed to Under-Secretary of State, Foreign Office.

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SIR,

No. 33.

COLONIAL OFFICE to FOREIGN OFFICE.

Downing Street, 7 May, 1908.

I AM directed by the Earl of Crewe to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 16th of April last,* and to request that Secretary Sir E. Grey will cause the following observations to be communicated to the Soudan Government, respecting the proposals in connection with the study of the disease of sleeping sickness con- tained in the despatch from His Majesty's Agent and Consul-General at Cairo of the 31st of March last, a copy of which accompanied your letter above mentioned.

2. The arrangements sanctioned by His Majesty's Government with the object in question provide for the despatch of Colonel D. Bruce, C.B., F.R.S., and two other officers of the Royal Army Medical Corps, to Uganda in July next, where they will carry out extended researches for a period of some six months.

3. There will be no objection, so far as this Department is concerned, to a Soudan Medical Officer being attached, at the expense of the Soudan Government, to Colonel Bruce's expedition in order that he may study the disease and report the result of his enquiries to that Government.

4. It is possible that Colonel Bruce may return by the Nile route, and in the event of a medical officer being detailed by the Soudan Government to join his expedition, I am to suggest, in view of the considerations stated in the second para- graph of Sir Eldon Gorst's despatch above mentioned, that it might be desirable that the officer in question should be qualified to report and advise the Soudan authorities as to the administrative measures which it may, appear necessary to adopt for the control of the disease in that region.

I am, &c.,

R. L. ANTROBUS.

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MY LORD,

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No. 34. UGANDA.

THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE.

(Received 8 May, 1908.)

[Answered by No. 48.]

Government House, Uganda, 13 April, 1903. Ir has come to my knowledge that those who are charged with the adminis- tration of the medical measures for dealing with sleeping sickness in this Protec- torate are being very inadequately supplied with the latest information as to the progress of medical research on the same subject elsewhere. It has been under- stood that the International Conference would suggest the formation of a General Bureau for the dissemination of literature on this subject, but I am not aware that any progress has yet been made in that direction.

2. In a letter on this subject, the Principal Medical Officer, Colonel Will, writes "What would be desirable would be if some central authority with the requisite knowledge (such as the Advisory Committee of the Tropical Research.. Fund or one of the Tropical Schools) would undertake the task of editing extracts from the various papers bearing on the subject in view, as would help the actual workers in the Colonies. Such a scheme, if taken up, could be largely extended to include notes on most of the tropical diseases, which could be published as a monthly or quarterly pamphlet. The expenses of such a scheme could be met by contribu- tions from the Colonies and Protectorates participating."

3. The Senior Medical Officer agrees with the Principal Medical Officer's suggestions, and I attach a copy of his memorandum on the subject.

4. It is desirable, I think, that the main point under consideration, namely, the dissemination of the latest knowledge about sleeping sickness among medical officers in Uganda, should not be swamped by any elaborate proposals for the publi- cation of information respecting tropical diseases generally throughout the Colonies and Protectorates. I hope, therefore, that your Lordship's medical advisers in London may be able to suggest some simple means by which the latest papers on sleeping sickness, not only British but also foreign, may be procured and expediti- ously transmitted to the officer in charge of Sleeping Sickness Investigations in Uganda.

5. The suggestions made by Colonel Will and Dr. Hodges as regards a Colonial Review of Tropical Diseases appear to me to be worthy of careful consideration.

6. The Crown Agents have been instructed to supply the various medical journals recommended by the Senior Medical Officer.

I have, &c.,

H. HESKETH BELL,

Governor.

Enclosure in No. 34.

MEMORANDUM from the SENIOR MEDICAL OFFICER to the DEPUTY COMMISSIONER. 25 March, 1908.

I agree entirely with the Principal Medical Officer as to the need for circula- tion of the latest information and reports on experiments and enquiries into tropical diseases in general, and, in the case of the Uganda Protectorate, into sleeping sickness in particular.

2. The journals have access to anything that is published at home or abroad, and, as a rule, promptly publish any information of an important or striking nature, translated when necessary.

3. What is difficult to get is information. relating to experiments and enquiries still in progress and conducted either by private persons or commissions or at schools Information of this kind belongs of or at institutes such as the Pasteur Institute.

right to the parties collecting it until they consider it sufficiently complete, and are ready to publish. Meantime it could be circulated only by mutual agreement among institutes, schools, Governments, &c.

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