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3. In view of the special circumstances which have arisen in Uganda, owing to the outbreak of war, I approve of the proposal made in your despatch of the 9th of February that no action should be taken in respect of systematic game destruction during the continuance of hostilities.

4. I enclose six copies of Appendix Dt to the Report of the Interdepartmental Committee on Sleeping Sickness, as requested by you, for the use of the Principal Medical Officer.

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No. 14.

WEST AFRICA.

COLONIAL OFFICE to THE TROPICAL DISEASES BUREAU AND THE IMPERIAL BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY.

SIR,

[Answered by No. 15.]

Downing Street, 20th May, 1915. WITH reference to the letter from this Department of the 10th of June, 1914 I am directed by the Secretary of State for the Colonies to transmit to you, for any observations that you may have to offer, the accompanying copies of the replies which have been received from the Governors of the West African Colonies and Protectorates to the Secretary of State's despatches (copies of which are also enclosed for convenience of reference) on the subject of the Report of the Inter- departmental Committee on Sleeping Sickness.

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No. 15.

WEST AFRICA.

TROPICAL DISEASES BUREAU to COLONIAL OFFICE.

(Received 10th June, 1915.)

Tropical Diseases Bureau, Imperial Institute,

London, S.W., 9th June, 1915.

I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of 20th May (1911/15), on the subject of the Report of the Interdepartmental Committee on Sleeping Sickness, with copies of replies to the Secretary of State's despatches from the Gambia, Gold Coast, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone.

2. In Sierra Leone and the Gold Coast, while clearing round villages, settle ments, and river crossings is approved of, clearing on each side of main roads is deemed impracticable, owing to cost and other reasons. I am ready to admit that clearing along main roads to the extent named in the report is quite impracticable owing to the cost, but, in the interests of a true conception of what clearing should signify, would point out that three of the objections raised by the Governor of Sierra Leone do not necessarily apply-I refer to the destruction of oil palms, the sacrifice of land needed for cultivation, and the loss of shade. Oil palms would not be removed unless it were shown that they harboured fly; ground cleared is ground which has undergone the essential preliminary to cultivation: shade is not lost unless the larger trees are felled, and experience elsewhere-not on the West Coast, I admit-shows that such felling is unnecessary provided that branches near the ground are removed. Probably a resting place among leaves near the ground is as essential to tsetse as shade.

* No. 9.

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