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experiment, their keep, and so forth, and he suggested that a grant from the Tropical Diseases Research Fund would be appropriate as indicating the interest taken by the Committee in the matter and their sense of its importance.
After further discussion, the Committee unanimously agreed to make the follow- ing recommendations to the Secretary of State :-
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(i.) That a further Commission be appointed to investigate Mediterranean
fever.
(ii) That its researches should be carried,on in Malta in the first instance, and later should be extended to other places in the Mediterranean basin.
(iii) That the Commission should include Dr. Zammit and the Veterinary Officer of the Maltese Government, and that the War Office and Admiralty should be asked to appoint representatives on the Commis- sion, the Committee expressing their satisfaction at the willingness of the Admiralty and War Office to bear the cost of the pay of their representatives; the Commission should contain in any event an experienced bacteriologist.
(iv.) That the Commission should be recommended to consider in particular the following points which were suggested by Sir Patrick Manson and concurred in by the rest of the Committee :--
(a) The question of the breed of goats affected by the disease.
(b) The duration of the infectivity of the goats.
c) The possibility of the immunisation of the goats.
(d) Isolation experiments with a view to ascertaining the medium
of infection.
(e) The infectivity of butter, cheese, and other dairy produce from
infected goats.
() The conveyance of the disease froni goat to goat by the milker
or the kid.
(r.) That a grant of £100 should be made from the Tropical Diseases Research Fund towards the expenses of the Commission as a recogni- tion by the Advisory Committee of the importance of the investigation. (vi.) That contributions should be invited, if possible, from such of the Colonics and Protectorates in which the disease was known to occur, as could, on financial grounds, properly be invited to contribute. (vii.) That the investigation should be conducted under the supervision of the Royal Society; Sir John Rose Bradford undertook to obtain the favour- able consideration of the Royal Society for the proposal, if the Secre- tary of State decided that the money could be raised. (viii) That the Government of India should be informed of the steps taken and invited to contribute if possible, and in any case to consider whether any co-operation could be given in research work on the subject; Sir Thomas Holderness and Sir Arthur Branfoot explained that though the disease was not very prevalent in India, there were a number of cases, and some research work was being carried out at Kasauli, but in view of the existence of other more important diseases they did not consider it likely that the Government of India could spare a research worker to form part of the Commission.
(No. 206.)
SIR,
No. 25.
UGANDA.
THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
(Received July 5, 1912.)
Government House, Uganda, 29th May, 1912. In accordance with the directions contained in paragraph 3 of your circular despatch, dated 20th December, 1910,* I have the honour to transmit the return of
• No. 11 in Appendix I. to [Cd. 5514] February, 1911.
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the statistics on the subject of the prevention of mosquito-borne diseases for the year ending the 31st December, 1911.
I have, &c.,
H. R. WALLIS,
Chief Secretary to the Government.
(In the absence of the Governor.)
Enclosure in No. 25.
1911.
UGANDA PROTECTORATE.
THE PREVENTION OF MOSQUITO-BORNE DISEASES.
RETURN called for in SECRETARY OF STATE's Circulars, dated 20th December, 1910, and 6th January, 1911.
1. Name of Colony :-
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Uganda Protectorate.
2. Total Area:—
117,681 square miles (taken from Census Returns, April, 1911.)
3. Estimated Population :—
4.
Europeans
Asiatics Natives
Total
Births:-
28,363 approximately.
5. Deaths:-
27,262 approximately.
Attributed to fever-
Europeans Others
Total
Attributed to blackwater fever-
Europeans
Others
Total
Attributed to yellow fever. None.
6. Government Hospitals
(a) Number. 16.
(b) Admissions---
Europeans
----
Asiatics and Natives
Total
(c) Malarial fevers, admissions--
Europeans
น
Asiatics and Natives Malarial fevers, deaths-
Europeans
Asiatics and Natives
(d) Blackwater fever, admissions-
Europeans, nil,
Asiatics and Natives, 4. Blackwater fever, deaths
Europeans, nil.
Asiatics and natives, nil.
:
:
:
:
640 2,216 2,840,469
2,843,325
2 3,738
3,740
2
3
28 1,933
1,961
7
305
12
2
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