Correspondence between DB and the scientists in Uganda, including reports and photographs

Date:
1903-1907
Reference:
WTI/RST/G/27
Part of:
Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
  • Archives and manuscripts

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Comprises the following:

  • WTI/RST/G/27/1: lists of correspondence, divided by subject, dated 1903-1907
  • WTI/RST/G/27/2: between DB and Captain EDW Greig, including re conflict between members of staff, attitudes of Sir Patrick Manson, W M Haffkine and others, and work of Christy, Wyndham and Koch, 17 letters, dated September 1903-January 1904
  • WTI/RST/G/27/3: from C A Wiggins re work at Nairobi, Kenya, dated December 1903
  • WTI/RST/G/27/4: from Greig, including re controversy between Greig and Philip H Ross, bacteriologist in Entebbe, over credit for discovery of filaria demarquayi, 43 letters, dated February-November 1904
  • WTI/RST/G/27/5: translation of correspondence between Greig and Major Dr Ahlbory, Mwanza, German East Africa [Tanzania], refuting Manson's claim that trypanosomes were prevalent at the south end of Lake Victoria, but no ss cases had occurred, dated September-November 1904
  • WTI/RST/G/27/6: tables of results of tests on prisoners in Usoga, dated June-July 1904
  • WTI/RST/G/27/7: from F W Mott to DB re tests on blood of ss patient, dated November 1904
  • WTI/RST/G/27/8: 2 reports of George Wilson, Acting Commissioner at Entebbe, to the Foreign Office, dated November-December 1904
  • WTI/RST/G/27/9: between DB and Lieutenant ACH Gray, Sesse Islands and south side of Lake Victoria, 21 letters (also re the addition of Professor EA Minchin to the Commission), dated December 1904-April 1905
  • WTI/RST/G/27/10: to DB from EDW Greig, the Sudan and along the Nile, with printed memorandum, dated [December 1904]- January 1905
  • WTI/RST/G/27/11: to DB from Major J Will [Principal Medical Officer] Usoga and the lake shores of Kavirondo. Also re [PH] Ross's experiments with Kibwezi flies; plague in Uganda; and problems with administration of the medical services, dated February 1905
  • WTI/RST/G/27/12: to DB from Dr RW Moffatt appealing for transfer of funding from research to preventive measures, dated January 1905
  • WTI/RST/G/27/13: translations of correspondence between EDW Greig and Professor Dr P Ehrlich of Frankfurt re aniline dyes in treatment of trypanosomiasis, 3 letters, with covering letter from DB to RW Moffat, dated March 1905
  • WTI/RST/G/27/14: from EDW Greig to Professor Ehrlich asking for signed statement re cause and transmission of ss, dated March 1905
  • WTI/RST/G/27/15: to DB from EA Minchin, EDW Greig and ACH Gray, and from DB to J Will and to Baird and Tatlock, Ltd, re progress of experiments, equipment required and plans to relocate the ss laboratory, dated April-May 1905
  • WTI/RST/G/27/16: reports and letter from RW Moffatt re 2 cases of ss in Europeans, with letter to EDW Greig from ACH Gray re fears among the British community in Entebbe, dated May 1905
  • WTI/RST/G/27/17: between DB and ACH Gray re observation of prisoners, attempts to breed tsetse flies, etc, 4 letters and equipment order, dated May-July 1905
  • WTI/RST/G/27/18: 5 photographs of patients in the early stages of the disease, dated May-Jun 1905
  • WTI/RST/G/27/19: between DB and J Will re horse-sickness and progress of research in Nairobi, 2 letters, dated June-August 1905
  • WTI/RST/G/27/20: Ms notes on experiments, dated June-July 1905
  • WTI/RST/G/27/21: note by ADP Hodges, Medical Officer at Gondokoro, re varieties of tsetse fly, dated September 1905
  • WTI/RST/G/27/22: between DB and ACH Gray, including re attempts to find trypanosomes in birds, 8 letters, dated August-December 1905
  • WTI/RST/G/27/23: to DB from Lieutenant Forbes Tulloch and from EDW Greig, dated December 1905-January 1906
  • WTI/RST/G/27/24: reports by ACH Gray on experimental rats, dated January 1906
  • WTI/RST/G/27/25: between DB and ACH Gray, 7 letters, dated January-February 1906
  • WTI/RST/G/27/26: to DB from RW Moffatt and ACH Gray re Lieutenant Tulloch's trypanosomiasis, and from DB to Drs Koch and Ehrlich, apppealing for drugs, 4 letters, dated March 1906
  • WTI/RST/G/27/27: to DB from EA Minchin re report to the Royal Society, dated May 1906
  • WTI/RST/G/27/28: to DB from J Will and from Dr JL Todd of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine re ideas for ss eradication or control, 3 letters, dated June 1906
  • WTI/RST/G/27/29: from DB re publication of ss reports, dated October 1906
  • WTI/RST/G/27/30: to DB from ADP Hodges re location of ss laboratories outside Entebbe and unsuitability of those in charge of the ss campaign in Uganda, 2 letters, dated August-October 1907

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    1903-1907

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    1 file (in 5 parts)

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