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same time I shall be able to inform you what steps will be taken to arrange for the direction of laboratory and research work on trypanosomiasis generally through- out the tropical African possessions.
10. When the general lines have been laid down for the future conduct of the two main departments into which the investigation naturally falls, viz., the entomo- logical and the medical, time will be necessary for testing the efficiency of the arrangements made; but I trust that it will be possible within a reasonable period to extend the range of the enquiry and to organise a scientific campaign against the trypanosome diseases in which all the British possessions interested will join forces.
I have, &c.,
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specially for work on the bionomics of Glossina in the East African Protectorates, and it is doubtful whether under present conditions more can be done in East Africa in this direction; but in West Africa there is only one officer, so far as I am aware, detailed for this work, viz., Dr. J. J. Simpson, the Travelling Entomo- logist of the Imperial Bureau of Entomology, now carrying on investigations in the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast, and I have to request that you will consider the advisability of provision being made by the combined West African Govern- ments for the employment of another entomologist, who could devote his time to the study of the bionomics of the tsetse flies. In normal circumstances I should have considered the possibility of arranging for one of the officers of the West African Medical Staff to be seconded for this work, but in the existing state of the supply of candidates for the staff such a suggestion would be quite impracticable.
4. When the general lines on which the medical and entomological sides of this investigation are to be conducted in future have been laid down, time will be required to test the efficacy of the arrangements made; but I trust that it will be possible at no very distant date to extend the range of the enquiry, and to organise à scientific campaign against the trypanosome diseases in which all the British possessions interested will participate.
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(No. 151.) SIR,
No. 78. NYASALAND.
THE SECRETARY OF STATE to THE GOVERNOR.
Downing Street, 4th June, 1914.
I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch, No. 111, of the 16th of April,* transmitting copies of correspondence which has passed between the Government of Nyasaland and the Blantyre Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture on the subject of free shooting of game.
2. I have to refer you in this connexion to paragraph 7 of my despatch of even date.t enclosing copies of the report of the Interdepartmental Committee on Sleep- ing Sickness. I think that it was unfortunate that the experiment in the Ngara Sub-District was not allowed to continue and that the area was closed on the 31st December, 1913.
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SIR,
No. 79.
I have, &c.,
L. HARCOURT.
THE SECRETARY OF STATE to THE GOVERNORS. [Answered by Nos. 90, 91, and 94.]
(Nigeria. No. 881.) (Gold Coast. No. 348.)
(Sierra Leone. No. 261.)
(Gambia. No. 128.)
Downing Street, 4th June, 1914.
I HAVE the honour to transmit to you two copies of the report of the Inter- departmental Committee on Sleeping Sickness which was appointed last year to enquire into certain questions connected with trypanosomiasis, including the relationship between wild animals and the maintenance or spread of trypanosome diseases in man and stock. Copies of the minutes of evidence will be forwarded to you as soon as they are available.
2. The report is primarily concerned with trypanosome diseases in the East African Protectorates, but it contains much which is of general interest and applica- tion to the whole of the tropical African possessions. In particular, I would invite your attention to the remarks on clearing in the neighbourhood of settlements and roads, to which the Committee attach much importance, and I should be glad to receive your observations as to the desirability and possibility of taking further action in Nigeria] [the Gold Coast] [Sierra Leone] [the Gambia] on the lines indicated in the report.
3. There are also the questions of extended medical and entomological research. I have now under consideration the question of the arrangements that can be made for securing continuity in the investigation of trypanosome diseases, and I hope to be able to address a further despatch to you on the subject shortly. As regards the entomological side of the work, there are at present three officers detailed
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I have, &c..
L. HARCOURT.
UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA.
THE SECRETARY OF STATE to THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL. (No. 252.)
MY LORD,
Downing Street, 4th June, 1914.
I HAVE the honour to transmit to Your Excellency, for the information of your Ministers, copies of the report* of the Interdepartmental Committee on Sleeping Sickness which I appointed last year to enquire into certain questions connected with trypanosomiasis, including the relationship between wild animals and the maintenance or spread of trypanosomiasis in man and stock. Copies of the minutes of evidence, &c., will be forwarded to you as soon as they are available.
2. The report will doubtless be of interest to your Ministers, and I enclose also for their information copies of a despatcht which I am addressing to the Governor of Nyasaland. This despatch indicates, so far as is now possible, the lines on which action will be taken. I should, however, say that I hope that action will not be confined to the Colonies and Protectorates in tropical Africa for which the Secretary of State is directly responsible, but that the Government of the Sudan and the British South Africa Company will co-operate; and I look forward to a time not very distant when it will be possible to extend widely the entomological and medical investigation of trypanosome diseases and to organise a scientific campaign in which all the British possessions interested will join forces.
I have, &c.,
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No. 81.
L. HARCOURT.
COLONIAL OFFICE to THE BRITISH SOUTH AFRICA COMPANY AND FOREIGN OFFICE. [Answered by No. 85.]
SIR,
Downing Street, 5th June, 1914. I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Harcourt to transmit to you [for the infor- mation of the British South Africa Company] [for communication to the Govern- ment of the Sudan], copies of the report of the Interdepartmental Committee on Sleeping Sickness, which was appointed last year to enquire into-certain questions connected with trypanosomiasis, including the relationship between wild animals
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