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Dr. F. W. Mott signs this paper subject to the alteration of paragraph 3 as follows:-

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Experiments in Uganda and England have shown not only that animals inoculated with the blood or cerebro-spinal fluid obtained from cases of human sleeping sickness die as a result of the infection, but that in a monkey so inoculated morbid changes similar to the very characteristic lesions of human sleeping sickness have been found."

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SIR,

No. 6.

COLONIAL OFFICE to THE ROYAL SOCIETY.

Downing Street, May 6, 1905.

I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Lyttelton to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 3rd of April last,* and to inform you that he is in communication witu the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury and the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in regard to the recommendations of the Royal Society for the further inves- tigation of sleeping sickness, and that a further letter will be sent to you as soon as possible.

I am, &c.,

R. L. ANTROBUS.

PUBLIC RECORD

OFFICE

Reference :-

C.O. 885

9 PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON

No. 3.

UGANDA.

MR. LYTTELTON to COMMISSIONER SADLER. (Sent 3.40 p.m., April 25, 1905.)

TELEGRAM.

[Answered by No. 5.]

April 25. Royal Society have now submitted extended scheme for investigation of sleeping sickness. Most important recommendation from financial point of view is that Protectorate Medical Staff should be increased by six so as to liberate corresponding number of present members with necessary local knowledge, who might, it is suggested, be placed under Moffat. Do you consider expense justified? Hope to obtain co-operation of Egyptian Government.

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No. 4.

UGANDA.

MR. LYTTELTON to COMMISSIONER SADLER.

[Answered by No. 21.]

(No. 88.) SIR,

Downing Street, April 28, 1905. I HAVE the honour to transmit to you, with reference to my telegram of the 25th of April, the accompanying copy of a lettert from the Royal Society con- taining the recommendations which they have made for carrying out the investiga- tion of sleeping sickness in the Protectorate on a more extensive scale.

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No. 5.

UGANDA.

I have, &c.,

ALFRED LYTTELTON.

COMMISSIONER SADLER to MR. LYTTELTON.

(Received 11.25 a.m., May 1, 1905.)

TELEGRAM.

[Answered by Nos. 9, 14 and 15.]

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No. 10. May 1. Referring to your telegram of 25th April, expense fully justified. I concur as to Moffat, who would wish to know lines of scheme before finally accepting charge of working.

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SIR,

No. 7.

COLONIAL OFFICE to TREASURY.

[Answered by No. 11.]

Downing Street, May 8, 1905. I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Lyttelton to request you to inform the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury that a Conference was held at this Office on the 22nd of March last, at which a deputation from the Royal Society represented to him the extreme gravity of the situation in Central and East Africa and the Upper Nile Valley in regard to the sleeping sickness.

2. Their Lordships will observe, from the papers of which copies are enclosed,† not only that the disease is causing a heavy mortality among the natives of Uganda and interfering in a serious manner with the economic development of the Protec- torate, but that there is also a grave risk of its extending into the Egyptian Soudan and even into Egypt itself. In these circumstances, it appears to Mr. Lyttelton that it is essential that steps should be taken without delay to accelerate the investigation of the disease, and that, for this purpose, the whole enquiry should be placed on a wider basis. He considers, therefore, that the Egyptian Government should be asked to assist in the matter, and he is in communication with the Marquess of Lansdowne with a view to ascertaining whether the Government would be prepared to contribute towards the cost of an extended enquiry.

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3. I am to enclose a copy of a letter from the Royal Society, from which their Lordships will see what extended action the Society considers to be necessary. am to explain, with reference to paragraph I. (1) of the letter, that the services of a trained entomologist have already been secured temporarily and that the necessary funds have been provided partly from the Imperial grant of £1,000 towards the expenses of the Sleeping Sickness Commission and partly from a grant of £1,000 which has been made to the Royal Society from the Tropical Diseases Research Fund referred to in the letter from this Department of the 8th of June, 1904.

4. The point which requires immediate consideration is the recommendation of the Royal Society that the medical staff of the Uganda Protectorate should be increased by six medical officers, so as to set free the same number of the present members who, from residence in the region, have gained local knowledge of it and of the habits and language of the people. Mr. Lyttelton has consulted the Com- missioner in regard to this matter and has received a reply by telegraph from which it appears that the additional expense is, in Lieutenant-Colonel Sadler's opinion, fully justified. Mr. Lyttelton therefore trusts that their Lordships will be prepared to approve of the increase of the medical staff of the Protectorate in accordance with the proposals of the Royal Society.

I am, &c.,

R. L. ANTROBUS.

• No. 3.

† No. 1.

• No. 1.

† See Enclosure in 12011 and 4466 (not printed) and Enclosure 2 in No. 1.

No. 99 in Miscellaneous No. 170.

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