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have incidentally brought to light the wide-spread existence in Uganda of actual or potential causes of disease in animals, domestic and other, and, indeed, in man, in the form of parasitic organisms. Diseases due to such organisms are, like Sleep- ing Sickness itself, liable to assume at times alarming proportions, and an exact knowledge of their causes and nature (for this alone can supply a sound basis for remedial or preventive measures) seems to be urgently demanded. Such a knowledge is called for not only in Uganda and in the Protectorate administered by the Foreign Office, but also in various parts of the Colonies; and in the interests of the Empire it seems most desirable that a well-organized and adequate investigation of these diseases should be undertaken.
The Superintendent of African Protectorates,
Foreign Office.
I have, &c.,
M. FOSTER, Secretary, Royal Society.
Enclosure 2 in No. 126A.
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Enclosure in No. 127.
RESIDENT-GENERAL to HIGH COMMISSIONER.
(No. R. G. 8262/1903.)
SIR,
Resident-General's Office, Selangor, November 10, 1903. IN connection with papers noted in the margin on the subject of the un- healthy condition of the neighbourhood of Port Swettenham, I have the honour to enclose six copies of a paper by the State Surgeon, Selangor, Dr. Travers, published in the number of the Journal of Tropical Medicine for 15th September, 1903, giving an account of the successful anti-malarial work carried out by Government in the Klang District.
2. Dr. Daniels, the Director of the Institute for Medical Research, has called my attention to the success of the operations, and to the small outlay incurred, as compared with similar work in some other countries, and Your Excellency may deem it worth while to bring the paper to the notice of the Secretary of State.
I have, &c.,
W. H. TREACHER,
Resident-General, Federated Malay States.
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
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SIR,
FOREIGN OFFICE to ROYAL SOCIETY.
Foreign Office, December 11, 1903. WITH reference to your letter of the 30th ultimo respecting the further investi- gation of the causes, &c., of Sleeping Sickness in the Uganda Protectorate, I am directed by the Marquess of Lansdowne to inform you that he has requested Mr. Secretary Arnold-Forster to select an officer of the Roval Army Medical Corps to › proceed to Uganda in order to assist Captain Greig in his labours.
The Secretary
to the Royal Society.
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No. 127.
I am, &c.,
His Excellency
The Acting High Commissioner,
Federated Malay States, Singapore.
AN ACCOUNT of Anti-Malarial work carried out with success in Selangor, one of the Federated States of the Malay Peninsula.
By E. A. O. TRAVERS, State Surgeon, Selangor.
The following brief history of a severe outbreak of malignant malarial fever in
a malarial district, with a short account of the measures taken to deal with it, will, it is hoped, be of some value as an instance in which systematic efforts, made with a view to the destruction of the breeding grounds of the mosquito, have been attended with immediate and marked success.
The district of Klang, in the State of Selangor, one of the Federated Malay States, has for several years been recognised as distinctly malarial.
The following figures, giving the number of cases treated at the Government hospital, will show the steady increase of malarial fever among the inhabitants of the district.
CASES OF MALARIA TREATED at the District HOSPITAL, KLANG.
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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
SIR,
FEDERATED MALAY STATES.
ACTING HIGH COMMISSIONER TAYLOR to MR. LYTTELTON. (Received December 14, 1903.)
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[Acknowledged December 18, 1903, No. 446: 44761; not printed.]
(No. 621.)
Government House, Singapore, November 14, 1903.
I HAVE the honour to enclose, for your information, copy of a letter from the Resident-General, No. 8262/1903, of the 10th of November current, enclosing copies of a paper by Dr. E. A. O. Travers, State Surgeon, Selangor, giving an account of anti-malarial work performed by Government in the Federated Malay States.
2. This is the work referred to by Dr. Daniels in the paper by that officer on the education of medical officers in the treatment of tropical diseases, which formed one of the enclosures in Sir Frank Swettenham's despatch, No. 492, of the 12th of September last.*
• No. 104.
I bave, &c.,
W. T. TAYLOR.
1899
1900
1901
Year.
In-patiente.
Out-patients.
Total,
251
668
919
467
737
1,204
807
965
*1,772
GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF KLANG TOWN AND PORT SWETTENHAM.
The town of Klang is situated on swampy ground, lying between the Klang River, from which it takes its name, and a semicircle of low hills.
Until September, 1901, Klang was the terminus of the Government railway and the port of the State.
Navigation of the river being attended with many serious difficulties, and the accommodation at the port being insufficient for the rapidly increasing needs of the State, it was resolved to make a new port near the mouth of the river.
The anchorage selected was a good one, but about half a mile of mangrove swamp intervened between the shore and a wide extent of flat, 'peaty land, partly cultivated by Chinese agriculturists.
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