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the blood is closely connected with a disease in Europeans which bad not been previously recognised. The parasite resembles a minute worm, and is very similar to the blood parasites which is the cause of the devastating discases prevalent among cattle, horses, &c., in Africa, India, and other tropical countries, known as the 'Tsetse fly disease, Nagana, and Surra.' In the case of animals it has been proved that these diseases are communicated through the agency of certain biting insects such as the Tsetse fly. The expedition discovered the Trypanosoma parasite in the blood of a native child. Since the return of the Expedition a special study of the question has been made at the laboratories of the Liverpool School, and the Committee of the School have now resolved to despatch a new Expedition to the Gambia and to Senegambia to further study the disease.
"The new Expedition, which will start in a month, will, as at present organised, consist of Dr. J. Everett Dutton (Walter Myers Fellow in the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine) and .Dr. J. L. Todd, of McGill University, Montreal, who has been working for a long time in connection with the School. Its principal object will be to investigate the conditions under which the disease occurs in both Europeans and natives and its distribution, and also to ascertain how it is conveyed from man to man, whether by a biting insect or by other means, In addition, the Expedition will continue to prosecute the researches into malaria which have been carried on by the School since its opening. Passages for the members of the Expedition have kindly been placed at the disposal of the School by the Chairman, Sir Alfred Jones.”
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COLONIAL OFFICE to THE LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE.
SIR,
Downing Street, July 11, 1902. I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Chamberlain to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 16th of June,* and to inform you that the Officer Administering the Government of the Gambia has been asked to render any assistance in his power to the scientific expedition which is being sent out in August by the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, and to communicate with you direct upon the question of pro- curing suitable quarters for its members.
2. Mr. Chamberlain is also asking the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to inform the French Government that the expedition proposes to visit Senegal, with a view to securing the co-operation of the Governor of that Colony while the expedition is carrying out its investigations there.
3. I am to take this opportunity of transmitting to you an extract from a report by His Majesty's Consul for French West Africa, containing information as to the sanitary condition of Konakry, and to enquire whether any members of the expe- ditions sent out to West Africa by the School have visited Konakry, and have reported upon its healthiness and the causes of it.
I am, &c.,
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A well planned hospital for forty native and twenty European beds has just been completed, on a healthy and airy site, at a convenient distance from the town, and thoroughly equipped with the latest scientific appliances.
To show the healthiness of the town, the doctor in charge of the hospital told me that he had only had two cases since the opening of the hospital.
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(No. 83.)
No. 89.
GAMBIA
MR. CHAMBERLAIN to Acting-Governor GRIFFITH.
I HAVE the honour to transmit to you a copy of correspondence* with the Liver-
Downing Street, July 12, 1902. pool School of Tropical Medicine on the subject of a scientific expedition which it is proposed to send out in August to study Trypanosoma, Filariasis, and Malaria, in the Gambia and Senegal.
2. I shall be glad if you will render any assistance in your power to the expedition and I have to request that you will communicate direct with Mr. Milne on the sub- ject of procuring quarters for its members.
I have, &c.,
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No. 89A. GAMBIA.
J. CHAMBERLAIN.
COLONIAL OFFICE to FOREIGN OFFICE. [Ansivered July 17, 1902, 29315 : not printed.].
Downing Street, July 12, 1902. I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Chamberlain to transmit to you, to be laid before the Marquess of Lansdowne, a copy of a letterf which has been received from the Secretary of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, on the subject of a scientific expedition which the School proposes to send out to the Gambia and Senegal in August next, and a copy of the lettert which has been sent in reply.
2. Mr. Chamberlain would be glad if Lord Lansdowne would inform the French Government that the expedition proposes to visit Senegal with a view to securing the co-operation of the Governor of that Colony while the expedition is carrying out its investigations there.
(Extract.) (No. 19.)
Mr. Consul CROMIE to the MARQUESS OF LANSDOWNE.
British Consulate, Dakar, Senegal, May 12, 1902. Conakry promises to become one of the model settlements on the West Coast, having been laid out with much intelligence and foresight by the late Monsieur Ballay.
The regulations governing the erection of new buildings appear to be excellently conceived for the best interests both of the town and private individuals. The sanitation is well looked after, with the result that there is little sickness, and Conakry is the only town on the West Coast of Africa where mosquito curtains are unnecessary.
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A system of waterworks is in course of construction, and when completed abundant and pure water will be brought into the town from a distance of 45 kilometres, and laid on to all the houses.
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No. 90.
I am, &c.,
R. L. ANTROBUS.
DR. MACALISTER, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY (SPECIAL BOARD FOR MEDICINE) to COLONIAL OFFICE.
(Received November 14, 1902.)
[Answered by No. 90n.]
St. John's College, Cambridge, November 12, 1902.
It has been suggested to the Special Board for Medicine of this University that it would serve a useful public purpose were the University to institute a special
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