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No. 3.

PRECIS PREPARED BY THE TROPICAL DISEASES BUREAU.

(Received in Colonial Office, 12 April, 1913.)

(No. 1.)

FROM THE SECRETARY OF THE NORTH-EASTERN RHODESIA AGRICULTURAL AND COM- MERCIAL ASSOCIATION TO THE ADMINISTRATOR OF NORTHERN RHODESIA, LIVINGSTONE.

February 20th, 1912.

States that a meeting of the above Association had been held to protest against the Administration opening that part of the country (East Luangwa District) for the recruiting of labour for Southern Rhodesia, and urges the Administration to take active measures to prevent the spread of tsetse fly. Encloses copies of various reso- lutions passed unanimously. The Association, which consists of farmers and planters, views with alarm the apparent apathy of the Administration as regards the agricultural interests of the district. The outflow of labour appears to have had an adverse influence on cultivation, and they suggest that the passage of natives through the district is bound to spread fly and sleeping sickness. The natives left behind are ill-suited to the requirements of the farmer.

The resolutions are given. The Association objects to the recruiting of labour within the area on the above grounds. They note that labour cannot be recruited in Nyasaland. They suggest that the permanent development of the East Luangwa District is being sacrificed for a temporary benefit to the mines. They urge free shooting of all game, clearing of all roads, and concentration of native villages.

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recruited from actually infected districts during the past year. The recruits are detained at a camp near the Zambesi River for examination for a fortnight, but between Fort Jameson and the medical camp there is a line of fly-belts along the main road for nearly 100 miles. The writer doubts whether a fortnight's detention and observation at a medical camp form an absolute test as to whether a person has the germ of sleeping sickness in him. Suggests that sleeping sickness will be thus transmitted to fly areas south of the Zambesi. It is noted also that owing to the deficit of labourers the Association has been compelled to curtail the acreage under cultivation. Viscount Gladstone is asked to investigate the matter.

(No. 4.)

FROM THE IMPERIAL SECRETARY, HIGH COMMISSIONER'S Office, Cape Town, to the SECRETARY, AGRICULTURAL AND COMMERCIAL ASSOCIATION, NORTH-EASTERN RHODESIA.

December 31st, 1912.

Acknowledges the above letter, No. 3. Expresses the opinion that no useful purpose would be served by Lord Gladstone's instituting an independent enquiry. He will keep himself fully informed of any fresh developments which may affect the movements of native labourers.

(No. 5.)

FROM THE HIGH COMMISSIONER, Cape Town, TO THE RESIDENT COMMISSIONER, SALISBURY.

January 4th, 1913.

Forwards copy of letter No. 3, and requests full information.

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(No. 2.)

FROM THE ADMINISTRATOR, NORTHERN RHODESIA, TO THE SECRETARY OF THE NORTH- EASTERN RHODESIA AGRICULTURAL AND COMMERCIAL ASSOCIATION.

May 31st, 1912.

Acknowledges No. 1. Points out that, owing to the inducement of high wages, the Administration cannot prevent natives going south. By agreement with Southern Rhodesia the movement is being controlled so that the danger of the spread of sleeping sickness is minimised. The number of natives moving is less than it was before this agreement. It is only to certain fly-free mines that recruits from the Luangwa District can be sent. It is impossible to prevent natives moving from village to village; such movements are not increased by recruiting, but rather diminished. At present these natives cannot obtain work at a fair wage near their homes. The spread of tsetse fly cannot be prevented. Free shooting would not have any effect. The clearing of roads would have no effect where the population is sparse.

(No. 3.)

FROM THE SECRETARY OF THE NORTH-EASTERN RHODESIA AGRICULTURAL AND COMMERCIAL ASSOCIATION TO THE HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR SOUTH AFRICA.

November 27th, 1912.

Refers to sleeping sickness in the Luangwa Valley, North-Eastern Rhodesia, and to the fact that the disease is carried by Glossina morsitans, the common tsetse fly of Rhodesia, Nyasaland, Portuguese East Africa, and Zululand. The Luangwa Valley has been declared a sleeping-sickness area, and the movements of natives from it to the southern mines have been stopped by regulations; nevertheless, permission has been granted to the agents of the Southern Rhodesia Labour Bureau to recruit labourers in the Valley for work in the southern mines. 4,000 men have thus been

(No. 6.)

FROM THE ADMINISTRATOR, NORTHERN RHODESIA, TO THE HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR SOUTH AFRICA.

February 7th, 1913. Refers to No. 3 (from the North-Eastern Rhodesia Agricultural Association). Forwards letter from the Dutch Reformed Mission on the same subject and copy of reply (Nos. 7 and 8). Forwards copy of Dr. May's last Report on the Luangwa sleeping-sickness area. Points out that the fact that the disease has actually diminished during the last four years tends to show that the infection is casual.

(No. 7.)

FROM SEVEN MEMBERS OF THE DUTCH REFORMED CHURCH, MPANGWE DISTRICT, TO THE ADMINISTRATOR FOR NORTHERN RHODESIA.

December, 1912.

Quotes the conclusions reached by the Luangwa Valley Sleeping Sickness Com- mission. Points out that labour-recruiting agents are very active in the Luangwa Valley, and that all natives, recruited proceed southward through a large fly-belt, leaving a risk of infection on the road. States that one recruit found at the detention camp to be infected was sent back along the same road. Draws attention to the danger to the Zambesi District and Southern Rhodesia if an infected native escapes detention. Requests that all movements of natives along all fly-infested roads be absolutely forbidden.

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