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In addition, Departmental instructions have been issued to all medical officers to investigate their districts closely for biting-flies and ticks; apart from this there is a general awakening of interest amongst laymen throughout the country, which has already led to a considerable expansion in our knowledge of the range of the various flies.
Recommendation No. 4.
Effect is being given to this.
Recommendation No. 5.
It is not proposed to take any immediate action on this heading until it is seen what success follows the re-opening of the sleeping sickness camp. A large fly-free area on the mainland has been surveyed in preparation for any exodus which may take place from the shores of the lake, and a portion of this surveyed land has been reserved for the islands.
Recommendation No. 6.
No special expenditure has been incurred.
Recommendation No. 7.
The condition of the finances of the country hardly justifies this proposal being brought forward at the present moment; but there is no intention of losing sight of it, should subsequent circumstances warrant it.
Recommendation No. 8.
This is dealt with in paragraph 3 of your Lordship's despatch.
2. The remaining recommendations, 9-17, deal with diseases affecting stock, and will form the subject of a separate communication.
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I have, &c.,
E. P. C. GIROUARD,
Governor.
No. 28.
UGANDA.
THE ACTING GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received 12.10 p.m., 28th June, 1910.)
TELEGRAM.
No. 43. Your telegram of 27th June.* Arrangements proposed in my despatch of 21st June, No. 218,† have been cancelled. Proposals made in your telegram being carried out. Fraser's leave due August; would be willing to remain until April with six months' leave from that date provided arrangements can be made with War Office.--TOMKINS.
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at present there, in order that there may be no lack of continuity in the work which is being done.
I assume that it is not necessary to appoint other officers in the place of Drs. Van Someren and Fraser, but I should be glad to have definite information upon this point.
4. The Committee recommended, and I approve, that the doctors detailed for work at the Laboratory should not be utilised for any other duty without my previous consent, and that they should be treated, as regards their work, as being a continua- tion of the expedition which carried out research work under Sir David Bruce.
I have, &c.,
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DEAR MR. READ,
No. 30. UGANDA.
DR. A. D. HODGES to COLONIAL OFFICE. (Received 5 July, 1910.)
Cotelands, White Knowle, Buxton,
CREWE.
July 3rd, 1910.
ON going through the papers relating to the subject in your office I noted that Dr. van Someran and Lieutenant Fraser have been selected to carry on the work of Sir David Bruce's Commission at Mpama Laboratory.
I see that in my minute on the memorandum by the Director of the Sleeping Sickness Bureau, dated, I think, the day before I left Uganda, my recommendation of the above officers in the last paragraph appears to read only in connection with paragraph 7 preceding it. My recommendation was, however, intended to refer generally to the lines of research proposed in the memorandum of the Director, Sleeping Sickness Bureau, which included travelling investigation, a good deal of which is still required.
I should like it to be understood that I consider Dr. van Someran specially fitted, by his local knowledge and experience, for the above class of investigation, and also for clinical and therapeutical investigation, and I recommend, therefore, that he should be detailed as far as possible for this kind of work.
I consider that Lieutenant Fraser, who has experience in laboratory research and in the methods of Sir D. Bruce, is specially fitted to carry on the work at Mpama Laboratory, and that he might do so in conjunction with Dr. Carpenter, who has probably by now reached Uganda, and with Dr. Duke, who, I understand, will shortly follow him there.
I think that the general lines of research to be followed should be those recom- mended by the Advisory Committee and the Director, Sleeping Sickness Bureau. Any important variation or extension of these which might be originated either through the Uganda Medical Department or by the investigators themselves would of course be notified to the Advisory Committee through the Sleeping Sickness Bureau.
Yours, &c.,
AUBREY D. P. HODGES.
No. 31.
UGANDA.
ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC- COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH-NOT TO
SIR,
COLONIAL OFFICE to WAR OFFICE. [Answered, agreeing, by 22953 : not printed.]
Downing Street, 6 July, 1910.
WITH reference to your letter of the 29th of November, 1907,† relating to the selection of Lieutenant D. A. Fraser, Royal Army Medical Corps, for service as a
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THE SECRETARY OF STATE to THE ACTING GOVERNOR.
[Answered by No. 34.]
Downing Street, 30 June, 1910.
(No. 258.) SIR,
In continuation of my telegram of the 27th of June, I have the honour to inform you that I consulted the Managing Committee of the Sleeping Sickness Bureau at their meeting of the 17th June, with regard to the proposals as to carrying on of research into sleeping sickness in Uganda.
2. The Committee recommended that Drs. Van Someren and Fraser should be appointed to work in connection with the Sleeping Sickness Laboratory, and that they should take up their work two or three weeks before the departure of the officers
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Enclosure in No. 25.
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