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SIR

No. 19.

NYASALAND.

THE SECRETARY OF STATE to THE GOVERNOR. (Miscellaneous (2).)

Downing Street, 21st September, 1915. I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No. 133, of the 12th of July last,* reporting on the measures put into execution in Nyasaland with a view to the investigation and prevention of sleeping sickness and trypanosomiasis; and to inform you that concur generally in the views expressed in your despatch and approve the steps that have been taken.

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Enclosure 2 in No. 20.

RETURN OF GAME KILLED UNDER LICENCE in the UganDA PROTECTORATE FOR THE YEAR ENDED 318T DECEMBER, 1914.

Province.

Bagands. Eastern. Western.

Northern,

Rudolf.

Name of Animal.

Box.

Totals.

M

33

3

9

Buffalo...

F

8

1

M

78

29

Bushbuck

7

5

7

Colobus Monkey

I have, &c.,

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Dik-dik

Duiker...

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SIR,

No. 20.

UGANDA.

THE ACTING GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received 29th September, 1915.)

(No. 240.)

Government House, Uganda, 20th August, 1915. IN continuation of my despatch No. 262, of the 9th June, 1914, I have the honour to transmit:-

(a) A return of the game licences which have been issued in the Protec-

torate between the 1st January and 31st December, 1914, together with (b) A summary of game shot under licences during the period named.

2. Twenty-eight prosecutions were undertaken during the year for breaches of the game laws, in which four convictions were obtained against natives for possess- ing female and immature ivory, one for abetting the illegal killing of an elephant, and four against Europeans for shooting elephants with immature tusks. remaining cases dealt with minor or technical breaches of the Ordinance.

have, &c.,

H. R. WALLIS,

Governor's Deputy.

م

Elephant

Hartebeestu

Hippopotamus

Impala

Marabout Stork

Roedbuck

Eland ...

* No. 17.

No. 84 in Miscellaneous No. 287.

Not printed.

M

Rhinoceros

F

M

150

14

5

3

14

Situtunga

F

2

M

24

106

Thomas's Kob

9

11

The

M

36

54

Topi

F

委

5

15

28

Wart Hog

4

4

M

75

19

41

Waterbuck

F

Oribi

Oryx

M

150

11

57

5

2

9

Zebra ...

F

M

Gazelle

F

Roan Antelope

M

F

M

Lesser Kudu

F

Kavirondo Crane

| | | | | |

1

F

Totals ...

519

216

232

177

29

1,173

Tel.86|| ! Talasal

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47

7

163

14

13

2

9

2

22

7

17

69

86

11

14

5

11

2

16

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SIR,

No. 21.

THE SECRETARY OF STATE to THE GOVERNORS AND GOVERNOR-

(Gambia. No. 192.)

GENERAL.

[Answered, Nigeria, by 8761.]

(Sierra Leone. No. 385.)

(Gold Coast. No. 655.) (Nigeria No. 1414.)

Downing Street, 5th October, 1915. WITH reference to [Mr. Cameron's despatch No. 179, of the 4th of August, 1914,*] [Sir Edward Merewether's despatch No. 165, of the 10th of April last,*] (Sir Hugh Clifford's despatch No. 690, of the 8th of September, 1914,*] [your despatch No. 945, of the 12th of October, 1914,*] on the subject of the recommenda- tions of the Interdepartmental Committee on Sleeping Sickness, I have the honour to enclose, for your information, printed copies of the replies received from the Governors of the West African dependencies to the despatches in which my pre- decessor forwarded copies of the Committee's report and invited their observations. Copies of the despatch‡ referred to above are also enclosed for convenience of

reference.

2. I caused these replies to be referred to the Tropical Diseases Bureau and the Imperial Bureau of Entomology in the letters of which copies are enclosed. I understand that Copies of Dr. Bagshawe's reply are also forwarded herewith. the Director of the Imperial Bureau of Entomology does not wish to make any

observations.

3. In the present financial situation expenditure on the lines suggested by the Committee and by Dr. Bagshawe cannot be undertaken by the West African Adminis- trations. No doubt the period which must elapse before the question can be reconsidered will enable a more decided opinion to be pronounced as to the probable importance of the work and the value of any results likely to be attained in com- parison with research into, and prophylactic measures against, other diseases prevalent in tropical Africa.

[4. (To Nigeria only); I should be glad if, in due course, I could be furnished with Dr. Hood's comments on paragraph 5 of Dr. Bagshawe's letter.]

I have, &c.,

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* Nos. [90], [91], and [94] in Miscellaneous No. 287 and No. 11 in this volume.

No. 79 in Miscellaneous No. 287.

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