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Trypanosomes are usually found in the blood and this may be the cause of the symptoms. Arsenic has been used as a curative agent, but not with uniform success.

Kintampo, January 14, 1906.

Enclosure 6 in No. 13.

W. H. JAMISON,

Medical Officer.

REPORT on Horses in the North-Western District Ashanti, for the year ended December 31, 1905.

The number of horses in this district since I arrived here in June last has been The six, of which two are dead-one in this station and the other at Wanchi. death of the one here was due to abscesses of the kidneys, brought about probably by a parasite. The other one, as far as can be made out by reports from native sources, died from tsetse-fly disease. One of the horses at present is suffering from the symptoms of the last-named disease, but the other two horses are as fit as can be anywhere. The "doob" grass sown here for the purpose is in great demand, and

the horses seem to thrive well on it.

Odumasi, December 31, 1905.

P. M. TOBIT,

Medical Officer.

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Enclosure 9 in No. 13.

REPORT On Horses in Ada District for the year ended December 31, 1905.

I have the honour to inform you that during the past year there has been one donkey and two horses in the district; they have kept quite fit and well; they do no work, and get a sufficient supply of food and water; one of the horses has been here for the past three years and has never been ill.

H. B. S. MONTGOMERY,

Medical Officer.

Ada, January 8, 1906.

Enclosure 10 in No. 13.

REPORT On Horses in Kwitta District for the year ended December 31, 1905.

Number of horses at Kwitta, 4; Danoe, 2; Anyako, 1; total number in the district, 7.

All the horses in Kwitta are in good condition. Food and water is abundant. The horses at Anyako and Danoe are said to be in good condition. No horse has died here during the year.

Kwitta, January 18, 1906.

Enclosure 11 in No. 13.

D. COWIN,

Medical Officer.

REPORT On Horses in Tarkwa District for the year ended December 31, 1905.

In this district there are one horse and one mule. They are both in good condition. No horses and mules have died in this district during the year.

W. F. L. A. HOLCROFT,

Medical Officer.

Enclosure 7 in No. 13.

REPORT on Horses in Kumasi for the year ended December 31, 1905. Number of horses in Kumasi during the year—15.

Donkey-1.

Number of deaths-12.

Causes of deaths :--

Nephritis-1.

Abscess of liver-1. Trypanosome-10.

Tarkwa, January 12, 1906.

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G. J. RUTHERFORD,

Acting Senior Medical Officer.

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Enclosure 8 in No. 13.

REPORT on Horses in Accra for the year ended December 31, 1905. The total number of "beasts of burden" in Accra during the year ended December 31, 1905, is as follows:-

Horses

Mares

Colts

Mules

...

81

9

3

13

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No. 14.

GAMBIA.

GOVERNOR SIR G. C. DENTON to THE EARL OF ELGIN.

(Received March 23, 1906.) ́ ́

[Copy of Enclosures 2 and 3 to Captain Todd, March 23, 1906. L.F.] (No. 34.)

MY LORD,

Government House, Bathurst, Gambia, March 7, 1906. In continuation of my despatch, No. 5, of the 4th January last,* I have the honour to transmit copies of reports by four of the Travelling Commissioners on the question of the prevalence of anthrax in their districts. The fifth Commis-

any

disease sioner, Mr. Sangster, has assured me, orally, that he has never heard of amongst cattle in the Protectorate which seemed to at all resemble anthrax.

2. The reports now forwarded have been referred to the Protectorate Medical Officer, who says that the disease described by Mr. Stanley may be anthrax, but this could only be settled, one way or the other, by the observation of another similar epidemic by an expert. Dr. Hopkinson adds that had it been anthrax he cannot but think that something would have been heard of it amongst the people themselves, especially the Foulahs, who may be said to live with their cattle.

I have, &c.,

Seven horses died during the

Accra, February 8, 1906.

year.

R. H. KENNAN,

Medical Officer.

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GEORGE C. DENTON,

Governor.

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