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No. 86.
MEDICINE.
COLONIAL OFFICE to THE LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL
Downing Street, June 18, 1907. SIR,
I AM directed by the Earl of Elgin to acknowledge the receipt of your tele- gram of the 14th inst., and to inform you that enquiry is being made by telegramt of the Officers Administering the Government of the British Central and East Africa and Uganda Protectorates as to the number of cases of blackwater fever in those Protectorates during the last twelve months.
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I am, &c.,
H. W. JUST.
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No. 90.
GAMBIA.
THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
(Received June 24, 1907.)
Government House, Bathurst, Gambia,
June 6, 1907.
MY LORD,
I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Lordship's despatch, Separate, of the 27th April last,* on the subject of the establishment of a medical research institute at Lagos.
2. The question of the Gambia supporting the scheme was brought by me before the Legislative Council, and I have much pleasure in informing your Lordship that it was unanimously agreed that this Colony should participate in it in the manner proposed.
I have, &c.,
GEORGE C. DENTON,
BRITISH CENTRAL AFRICA PROTECTORATE.
THE ACTING COMMISSIONER to THE SECRETARY OF STATE,
(Received 10.55 a.m., June 23, 1907.) TELEGRAM.
June 22. No. 16. In reply to enquiry‡ number of cases of blackwater fever for last twelve months is 25.--PEARCE.
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No. 88.
EAST AFRICA PROTECTORATE.
THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received 4.53 p.m., June 24, 1907.)
(No. 95.)
TELEGRAM.
Your Lordship's telegram of 15th June. In the course of last year there were five European cases of blackwater and one death; Africans and Asiatics, 17 cases and 6 deaths. Sadler.
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.No. 91.
Governor.
COLONIAL OFFICE to THE LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE.
Downing Street, June 27, 1907. WITH reference to the letter from this Department of the 18th instant, † I am directed by the Earl of Elgin to transmit to you copies of telegramst which have been received from the British Central Africa and East Africa Protectorates giving the number of cases of blackwater fever which have been dealt with during the last 12 months. A copy of the reply from Uganda will be sent to you as soon as it is received.
2. I am to enclose also a copy of a letter§ from Sir A. Sharpe, His Majesty's Commissioner for the British Central Africa Protectorate, who is now on leave of absence in this country with reference to the question raised in your letter of the 10th of June, i.e., what place in the Protectorate would be likely to be most suitable as headquarters of the Blackwater Fever Expedition.
I am, &c.,
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(No. 221.) MY LORD,
No. 89.
GOLD COAST.
THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
(Received June 24, 1907.)
[Answered by No. 104.]
Government House, Accra, May 31, 1907.
I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Lordship's Separate despatch of the 27th April last,§ with reference to the proposed establishment at Lagos of a medical research institute for all the British West African Administra- tions, and to express my full concurrence in this proposal.
2. The suggested annual contribution of this Colony will be submitted to the Legislative Council, at their next meeting, in connexion with the 1908 Estimates.
I have, &c.,
JOHN RODGER,
(No. 251.)
MY LORD,
No. 92.
GOLD COAST.
THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE,
(Received July 1, 1907.)
[Answered by No. 104.]
Government House, Accra, June 12, 1907.
IN continuation of my despatch, No. 221, of the 31st May last, and former correspondence on the subject of the proposed establishment at Lagos of a medical research institute for all the British West African Administrations, I have the honour to inform your Lordship that the suggested annual contribution of this Colony (£400) was agreed to at a meeting of the Legislative Council held on the
I have, &c.,
11th June current.
JOHN RODGER,
Governor.
Governor.
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