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is not only the quicker route, but will also place us immediately in the district which is most threatened. From the enclosed sketch map you will see that probable cases of sleeping sickness have been reported at Mwomboshi, just a short distance from the present terminus of the railway at Broken Hill Mine. I am not in a position to say yet whether both men should go in by this route, as our information is not yet complete, but, as I have said, one man should probably go in this way. In this connection I may point out that as the Blackwater Fever Expedition will probably be going in by the way of Chinde, they might be able to gather some information as to the occurrence of tsetse flies in the southern part of British Central Africa.
Will you write to the officials of Portuguese East and West Africa, Congo Free State, and German East Africa, that expeditions are being sent out from this School and that these may find it necessary to go into their territories? We would, there- fore, like them to extend to us the usual courtesies and also furnish us with licences to shoot birds, animals, &c., for scientific purposes. It will also be necessary to obtain from the Colonial Office and from the British South Africa Company gun These licences licences and shooting licences for the territories under their control. would have to be more extensive than the ordinary ones, as it will probably be neces- sary to examine large numbers of many different species of birds and animals to ascertain the presence of parasites, &c.
We should also like to have general letters of introduction signed by the authorities of the School and the Secretary of State for the Colonies, if possible, stating who the members of the expedition are and the objects of same and asking the officials of the various countries to assist us as far as it lies in their power.
Arrangements will also have to be made with the various trading companies in Northern Rhodesia and British Central Africa, for example, the African Lakes.... Corporation and the Tanganyika Concessions, to honour our notes for, say, £200. If this is done, it will enable us to buy goods and provisions at the various stores throughout the country and thus mean a reduction in the cost of carriers.
Will you also write to the Colonial and War Offices, asking them to furnish us with copies of all the maps, local routes, plans, and charts they have of the various I under- dependencies in Central Africa between 50 and 20° $. and 20° and 37° E. stand that they promised to let us have these.
I think that it would be advisable for me to go to London towards the end of March and would like you to write to the Colonial Office and the British South Africa Company to this effect. It is important for me to meet as many men as possible who have any knowledge of the northern part of Rhodesia and of British Central Africa, as valuable information may be obtained from them.
I may perhaps point out that the Blackwater Fever Expedition will also require gun and shooting licences and letters of introduction.
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No. 71.
COLONIAL OFFICE to THE LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE.
[Copy to Commissioners, East Africa and Uganda Protectorates, March 22, 1907, Nos. 158 and 75. L.F.]
[Answered by No. 23.]
Downing Street, March 20, 1907. I AM directed by the Earl of Elgin to acknowledge the receipt of your letters of the 8th and 11th of March* regarding the arrangements for the despatch of the expeditions to Central Africa which are to investigate sleeping sickness and black- water fever.
Lord Elgin recognizes that it is to the interest of all the territories in Central Africa under British control that the sleeping sickness expedition should commence its investigations in the locality where experience has proved that they are most urgently required. His Lordship, therefore, agrees that one or both of the two doctors employed on the sleeping sickness expedition should proceed to North- Eastern Rhodesia via Cape Town, and he will sanction the expenditure of a sum not exceeding £100 from the funds of the British Central Africa Protectorate towards the cost of their journey.
With regard to the grant of special facilities for shooting purposes, &c., the Secretary of State will ask the Commissioner of the British Central Africa Protec- torate to furnish the doctors employed both on the Sleeping Sickness and Blackwater Fever Expeditions with the special licences provision for the grant of which is made in the Game Regulations of the Protectorate. His Lordship is communicating with the British South Africa Company as to the grant of similar facilities in the terri- tories under their control.
Lord Elgin does not think it necessary that he should furnish the doctors engaged on the expeditions with formal letters of introduction to the Commissioner or officers of the British Central Africa Protectorate. Sir A. Sharpe has been, and will be, kept fully informed of the arrangements for the expeditions, and will be requested to afford the doctors employed upon them every possible facility.
I am to add that the Intelligence Division of the War Office is being asked to furnish this Department with copies of the latest and best maps of the territories which the expeditions will visit. These maps will be forwarded to you in due
I am, &c.,
course.
II. W. JUST.
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No. 70.
COLONIAL OFFICE to THE DIRECTOR OF MILITARY OPERATIONS.
Downing Street, March 20, 1907.
The Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies presents his compliments to the Director of Military Operations and begs to inform him that the authorities of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, who are now organizing two expeditions to Central Africa to study sleeping sickness and blackwater fever, have asked to be provided with copies of maps, local route plans, and charts of the various depen- dencies in Central Africa between 5° and 20o S. and 20° and 37° E.
Sir F. Hopwood would be much obliged if Major-General Ewart would furnish him with copies of the latest and best maps, &c., of these localities for the use of the two expeditions; they have been arranged by the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, in consultation with the Colonial Office, and a considerable proportion of their cost, will be borne by the Governments of the East Africa, Uganda, and British Central Africa Protectorates, and by the British South Africa Company.
COLONIAL OFFICE to THE BRITISH SOUTH AFRICA COMPANY. [Copy to High Commissioner for South Africa, March 21, 1907, No. 167, L.F.; and to Commissioners, East Africa and Uganda Protectorates, March 22, 1907, Nos. 158 and 75, L.F.]
[Answered by No. 21.]
Downing Street, March 20, 1907.
SIR,
WITH reference to the letter from this Department of the 5th instant, I am directed by the Earl of Elgin to transmit to you, to be laid before the Directors of the British South Africa Company, copies of two letters which have been received from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine regarding the arrangements for the despatch of the expedition which is to study sleeping sickness in Central Africa, together with a copy of his Lordship's reply.§ I am to explain that the references in these letters to the Blackwater Fever Expedition are to an expedition now being organized to study this subject, which will work in the British Central Africa Pro- tectorate, acting to some extent in conjunction with the Sleeping Sickness Expedi- tion. Part of its cost will be paid from the funds of the East Africa, Uganda, and British Central Africa Protectorates.
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