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Federated Malay States, or of appointing a Principal Civil Medical Officer for the States.

I have, &c.,

ALFRED LYTTELTON.

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DEPUTY COMMISSIONER,

I HAVE noted with much interest that an intermediate host of the Filaria Bancrofti is found in the Somaliland Protectorate.

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No. 189.

DRAKE BROCKMAN,

Medical Officer,

Berbera District.

SIR,

COLONIAL OFFICE to SIR P. MANSON.

Downing Street, February 17, 1905. I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Lyttelton to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 9th instant, and to thank you for your observations on Sir J. Anderson's despatch with regard to the Kuala Lumpor Institute for Medical Research.

2. Mr. Lyttelton would be glad if you would inform the authorities of the London School of Tropical Medicine that Dr. Daniels's successor will be appointed on the same terms with regard to emoluments for two years, but that the may not be continued beyond that period, and would also explain the difference in arrangement the position which will be assigned to the successor.

I am, &c.,

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SIR,

(No. 190.)

No. 190.

SOMALILAND.

COMMISSIONER SWAYNE to MR. LYTTELTON.

(Received June 10, 1905.)

[Copy to Sir P. Manson, June 19, 1905. L.F.]

C. P. LUCAS.

Somaliland, Commissioner's Office, Camp Daraas, May 25, 1905.

I HAVE the honour to forward a report by Dr. Paget, Senior Medical Officer, and correspondence, in regard to the presence on the coast of a fly which Dr. Paget informs me may under certain conditions be dangerous as furnishing a means of conveying yellow fever.

(No. 119.) SIR,

I have, &c.,

E. J. E. SWAYNE,

Brigadier-General.

Enclosure in No. 190.

Zeyla, British Somaliland, April 26, 1905.

I HAVE the honour to inform you, with reference to any future arrangements, or importation of foreign live stock, that expert opinion in England declares one of the variety of flies in this neighbourhood to be the only known agent in the spread of yellow fever.

I have therefore to inform His Majesty's Commissioner that an intermediate host of Filaria Bancrofti exists on this coast.

I should be obliged by an acknowledgment of the receipt of this note, and a copy of any orders that might be issued in connection with this matter.

SIR,

(No. D/52/05.)

Berbera, April 29, 1905.

WITH reference to Dr. Paget's letter re the presence of a yellow-fever-carrying mosquito in Zeyla, I have the honour to inform you that I have been aware of the presence of Stegomyia fasciata in Berbera for many months.

If

you are interested in the Diptera I may inform you that several members of that obnoxious group exist in Dubar and Berbera, and I am afraid they will always be with us until both places are properly drained and the tanks kept scrupulously clean.

Deputy Commissioner-Are not the rules carried out as to cleaning tanks- please see to this.

Circulate to all officers.

E. S.

E. 8.

It may interest you to know that the Stegomyia fasciata usually breeds in the large earthen pots and canvas bags in which officers are accustomed to keep their soda water bottles to cool in the hot weather.

As a routine practice these pots and bags should be cleaned daily, so as to prevent the water becoming stagnant.

I have found hundreds of their larvæ in such places in Berbera.

Another of the common Berbera mosquitos is the ubiquitous culea fatigans. Magnificent specimens of this can be taken at Dubar and I venture to say Biandula also.

I shall have much pleasure in informing you further on this most interesting subject, if you so desire.

It is not surprising that the yellow-fever-bearing mosquito should be found here as it has been found freely dispersed through Egypt-Ismailia and Suez Canal and even Abyssinia.

His Majesty's Deputy Commissioner, Berbera.

THE DEPUTY COMMISSIONER,

I have, &c.,

DRAKE BROCKMAN,

Medical Officer,

Berbera District.

MEMORANDUM. No. 207/C.

THE letter is addressed to you. It would be interesting to know whether the presence of this fly has only recently come about, or whether it has been an inhabitant of the coast all along. In this case, it would be advisable to get records of the number of yellow fever cases known to have occurred at Zeyla. whether foreign live stock is likely to be imported-of course, it may be in the do not yet know future-but, at present, we are an exporting country.

When Dr. Paget is able to communicate to me the result of his further enquiries, and has made suggestions as to what he considers should best be done, I will consider his suggestions and give orders as desired, but at present, it appears our information is somewhat too scanty to enable me, without further reference, to give orders in a matter of this kind.

May 4, 1905.

I have, &c.,

A. J. M. PAGET, M.D.,

Senior Medical Officer.

SIR,

His Majesty's Deputy Commissioner, &c., &c., Berbera.

E. J. E. SWAYNE,

Brigadier-General.

Somaliland Protectorate, Office of the Senior Medical Officers.

Zeyla, May 12, 1905.

I HAVE the honour to inform you, in reply to the Memorandum of His Majesty's Commissioner, No. 207/C, herewith returned :-

• No. 187.

(1) The fly is probably of modern importation, being carried on the sea level

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

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