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No. 93.

UGANDA.

THE ACTING COMMISSIONER to THE SECRETARY OF STATE.

(Received 2.52 p.m., July 8, 1907.)

TELEGRAM.

[Copy to Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, July 10, 1907. L.F.] No. 31. Referring to your telegram* to British East Africa Protectorate, blackwater cases for the year ending 31st December, 1906, as follows: Europeans 21, deaths 3; Asiatics 39, deaths 2.—WILSON.

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anxious, if possible, to obtain free passages for the members of the expedition over that Railway, as far as it goes. Similar facilities were kindly granted by the Cape Government Railway management to the Sleeping Sickness Expedition.

The expedition would also be glad to know whether they could have the use of any laboratory or suitable building in Blantyre for experimental work.

They would also be obliged if they might have permits granted to them gratis to shoot animals, in pursuit of their researches solely, and not for purposes of sport.

I am, &c.,

A. H. MILNE,

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No. 97.

SIERRA LEONE.

Secretary.

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

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No. 94.

SIERRA LEONE.

THE SECRETARY OF STATE to THE GOVERNOR. (Sent 10.10 a.m., July 12, 1907.) TELEGRAM.

[Answered by Nos, 95 and 97.]

Referring to my despatch, Separate, April 27th. Do you agree to proposed annual contribution from Sierra Leone? Other Governments concerned agree. ELGIN.

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No. 95.

SIERRA LEONE.

THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received 11.15 p.m., July 17, 1907.)

TELEGRAM.

[Answered by No. 101.]

Referring to your telegram of 12th July, I will arrange for contributions should you decide that the Sierra Leone contributions are indispensable to scheme. Consider that expenditure on lines of proposal referred to in Secretary of State's despatch, November 16, 1905,§ would result in more immediate advantage to Sierra Leone. I'ROBYN.

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No. 96.

BRITISH CENTRAL AFRICA PROTECTORATE. THE LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE to COLONIAL OFFICE.

SIR,

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(Received July 31, 1907.)

[Answered by No. 98.]

B 10, Exchange Buildings, Liverpool, July 30, 1907. Blackwater Fever Expedition of the School.

I AM directed to inform you that, as at present arranged, the above-named expedition of the School, consisting of Dr. Barratt and Dr. Yorke, will sail for Chinde by the Deutsche Ost-Afrika-Linie on the 14th August from Dover.

I should be glad to know whether the Manager of the British Central African Railway, or a responsible official of that railway, is in England. The School is

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(No. 285.) MY LORD,

THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE.

(Received August 3, 1907.)

[Answered by No. 103.]

Government House, Freetown, Sierra Leone, July 18, 1907. I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch," Separate," of the 27th of April,* respecting the establishment of a medical research institute for all the British Administrations in West Africa. In reply to your telegram of the 12th of Julyt I sent a telegram of the 17th of July in the following terms:-

"Referring to your telegram of 12th July, I will arrange for contribu- tions should you decide that the Sierra Leone contributions are indispensable to scheme. Consider that expenditure on lines of proposal referred to in Secretary of State's despatch, No. 326, of 16th November, 1905(a), would result in more immediate advantage to Sierra Leone."

(a) The date 16th November, 1905, was communicated by a correcting cablegram on 19th July.

2. Before explaining the reason why a reply was not sent to your despatch* at an earlier date, I propose amplifying the first part of my telegraphic reply.

There are certain schemes which cannot be carried through without the co- operation of all the Colonies on the coast, for example, the scheme for the improve- ment of agriculture under the direction of the Imperial Institute. Whenever any such scheme is considered by you to require the co-operation of all the Colonies, I am convinced that the Legislative Council of this Colony will sanction the expendi- ture required in connection with the Sierra Leone contribution. In the present case, therefore, I can easily arrange that the amounts required from this Govern- ment shall be paid and will do so immediately after receiving your instructions in the matter.

3. The delay is the result of action taken as notified in Mr. Lyttelton's despatch, No. 326, of the 16th of November, 1905§: that despatch is the one referred to in the latter part of my telegram. In paragraph 3 of that despatch it is stated that enquiry would be made whether the Army Council will be prepared to instruct the Medical Officer engaged on research work under the War Department in Freetown, to furnish the Colonial Government with copies of his scientific reports. As a result of this enquiry, the War Department in Freetown received a copy of a letter, dated 21st December, 1905, from Sir E. D. Ward to the Under-Secretary of State, Colonial Office, copy enclosed, stating that the Senior Medical Officer had been instructed to furnish the Colonial Government with the reports mentioned. Subsequently, the Specialist Sanitary Officer in Freetown wrote a letter to the Senior Medical Officer, dated the 18th of March, 1907, copy enclosed, in which he suggested that not only should the proposal (dealt with in Mr. Lyttelton's despatch) be again brought forward, but also that the field of work should be extended.

General Trotter, before going on leave, wrote:-

"The despatches are written by Mr. Probyn and, therefore, should be re-submitted on Mr. Probyn's return.

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