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May I submit that Government officials, naturally anxious not to create difficul- ties, desiring to make the best of existing circumstances, are not quite free agents, and that independent testimony is worthy of consideration?
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Faithfully, &c.,
CATHCART WASON.
No. 92.
UGANDA.
THE EARL OF ELGIN to COMMISSIONER H. HESĶETH BELL. (Sent 12.5 p.m., December 4, 1906.)
TELEGRAM.
[Answered by No. 93.]
December 4. Referring to my telegram of November 1,* last paragraph, are you proceeding with public works?
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No. 93.
UGANDA.
COMMISSIONER H. HESKETH BELL to THE EARL OF ELGIN.
(Received 10.33 a.m., December 5, 1906.)
TELEGRAM.
[Answered by No. 94.]
No. 68. Referring to your telegram of 4th December,f yes, on strength of authority given in your telegram of 1st November. Arguments in favour of reten- tion of Entebbe are growing stronger.
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The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine has offered to send out two experts and to pay their salaries, on condition that the Government grants them free passages to and from, and free transport in, the Protectorate, together with free quarters, and a subsistence allowance not exceeding 10s. per diem, and the Earl of Elgin recommends that the offer should be accepted.
In reply I am to state that my Lords concur in the views of the Secretary of State, and authorise the necessary expenditure from Protectorate funds accordingly, on condition that any expenditure incurred before 31st March next will be met from savings on the authorised expenditure of the Protectorate for the current year.
I am, &c.,
G. H. MURRAY.
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No. 96.
BRITISH CENTRAL AFRICA PROTECTORATE. COMMISSIONER SIR A. SHARPE to THE EARL OF ELGIN. (Received December 12, 1906.)
(No. 286.)
MY LORD,
Government Offices, Zomba,
British Central Africa, October 20, 1906. REFERRING to my despatch, No. 244, of the 3rd of September, 1906,* I have the honour to transmit a supplementary report on the distribution of tsetse fly and the occurrence of sleeping sickness on the Congolese border, together with a map, which have been sent to me by the Administrator of North-Eastern Rhodesia.
I have, &c.,
ALFRED SHARPE,
Commissioner.
Enclosure in No. 96.
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No. 94.
UGANDA.
THE EARL OF ELGIN to COMMISSIONER H. HESKETH BELL. (Sent 6.30 p.m., December 10, 1906.)
TELEGRAM.
[Answered by No. 98.]
December 9. Referring to your telegram 68,‡ am informed that Entebbe water supply bad; you had better consult Sadler at once as to obtaining opinion of expert Williams who is now in British East Africa Protectorate reporting on sanitary condition of Nairobi, &c.
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No. 95.
TREASURY to COLONIAL OFFICE. (Received December 12, 1906.)
SIR,
Treasury Chambers, December 11, 1906. I HAVE laid before the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury Mr. Graham's letter of the 27th ultimo (42023/1906),§ with reference to the measures to be taken to prevent the spread of sleeping sickness into the British Central Africa Protectorate.
SIR,
Administrator's Office, North-Eastern Rhodesia,
Fort Jameson, October 1, 1906.
I FORWARD herewith a mapt showing the present distribution of tsetse fly and cases of sleeping sickness on the Congolese border.
I have decided to establish a medical post at Madona on the Luapula River for the purpose of further investigation and for the exercise of whatever preventive measures may be found possible.
The spread of the disease to the Mweru and Luapula Districts seems to be due to the Congo State system of recruiting soldiers from infected areas to be stationed in areas which are free from the disease. For example, there has been, for several months, a case of sleeping sickness at Kasenga on the Luapula, where tsetse fly, both Glossina Morsitans and Glossina Palpalis, abound, constituting every con- dition for the establishment of a focus of infection.
I have written to the local representative of the Katanga Company requesting 00-operation with our medical officers, and, especially, that he may order the removal of the patient at Kasenga and similar cases to within the endemic area, or to some place where tsetse fly is non-existent.
There can be no doubt that, unless the Congo Government comply with this request, both Lake Mweru and the Luapula River will shortly become permanent endemic areas as Lake Tanganyika and other parts of the Congo are now, and I suggest that the Imperial Government should be asked to make proper repre- sentations to the chiefs of the Congo Government in Brussels.
Should cases of the disease appear on the Rhodesian side of the Luapula, I still hope that, by prompt removal to districts where tsetse fly is non-existent, the disease will die out without establishing any focus of infection.
I have, &c.,
His Majesty's Commissioner,
British Central Africa Protectorate,
Zomba.
ROBERT CODRINGTON.
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