'Uganda papers 1903', DB's correspondence as Head of the Royal Society's Sleeping Sickness Commission in Uganda

Date:
1902-1903
Reference:
WTI/RST/G/26
Part of:
Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
  • Archives and manuscripts

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Comprises the following:

  • WTI/RST/G/26/1: 'Report No 1 from Dr [Cuthbert] Christy', dated 1902
  • WTI/RST/G/26/2: Christy's maps of the northern shores of Lake Victoria, showing distribution of filaria perstans, of ss, and of banana cultivation and clothed people, dated 1902
  • WTI/RST/G/26/3: from Colonel J Hayes Sadler, Commissioner in Uganda, to the Foreign Office, and from G C Low to DB re proposals for an isolation hospital outside Entebbe, dated 1902-1903
  • WTI/RST/G/26/4: proof of 'Short resume of work done on sleeping sickness in Uganda' by George C Low, dated 1903
  • WTI/RST/G/26/5: copy letters re despatch of DB to Uganda, dated January 1903
  • WTI/RST/G/26/6: letters re DB's powers and administrative arrangements, dated January-February 1903
  • WTI/RST/G/26/7: résumés of telegrams re Aldo Castellani's willingness to meet DB, dated February 1903
  • WTI/RST/G/26/8: to DB from G. Stanley Bruce, Department of Agriculture, Salisbury, Rhodesia, re Koch's work on 'cattle disease' [East Coast Fever] and 'horse sickness', 3 letters, dated March-July 1903
  • WTI/RST/G/26/9: to DB from Lieutenant ACH Gray re progress of ss tests, dated March 1903
  • WTI/RST/G/26/10: between DB and Professor Edwin Ray Lancaster, British Museum, re classification of tsetse flies and trypanosomes, 4 letters, dated March-July 1903
  • WTI/RST/G/26/11: between DB and the Colonial Office re malaria, 2 letters, dated March-April 1903
  • WTI/RST/G/26/12: copy of letter to the Royal Society from the Chief of the Portuguese Sleeping Sickness Commission re 'germ found by Castellani', dated April 1903
  • WTI/RST/G/26/13: [From DB] to Sir Michael Foster, Royal Society, re attitudes to Manson, Castellani and Low, dated April 1903
  • WTI/RST/G/26/14: telegram re addition of Captain Greig, IMS, to the Sleeping Sickness team, dated April 1903
  • WTI/RST/G/26/15: to the Army Medical Department from the Royal Society re transport of specimens, dated April 1903
  • WTI/RST/G/26/16: copies of telegram and letter from the Sleeping Sickness Commission, naming trypanosomes as probable cause of ss, dated April 1903
  • WTI/RST/G/26/17: letters of congratulation to DB from Colonel Hayes Sadler and from W Taylor at the War Office, April-May 1903, dated 1903
  • WTI/RST/G/26/18: instructions [from DB] re investigation of distribution of ss cases and of tsetse flies, 3 letters, dated May 1903
  • WTI/RST/G/26/19: to DB from Colonel Hayes Sadler re German investigations into ss, dated May 1903
  • WTI/RST/G/26/20: [From DB] to Sir Michael Foster re tests to establish the tsetse fly as the vector, dated May 1903
  • WTI/RST/G/26/21: between DB and the Bishop of Uganda re help from missionaries with gathering of statistics, 5 letters, dated May-June 1903
  • WTI/RST/G/26/22: copy of telegram from the Foreign Office to Colonel Hayes Sadler, asking for statistics re trypanosome distribution. With DB's reply and letter from Hayes Sadler, dated May-Jun 1903
  • WTI/RST/G/26/23: between DB and C A Wiggins, Medical Officer at Kisumu isolation hospital, 2 letters, dated May 1903
  • WTI/RST/G/26/24: letter from the German chief medical officer at Bukoba re spread of ss, dated May 1903
  • WTI/RST/G/26/25: draft letter from DB to Sir Michael Foster, dated May 1903
  • WTI/RST/G/26/26: replies to questionnaires from missionaries and officials, 38 letters and 1 map, dated May-July 1903
  • WTI/RST/G/26/27: two letters re cases of ss among members of the armed forces in East Africa, dated June-July 1903
  • WTI/RST/G/26/28: from DB to the Commissioner and Consul General of British East Africa, re necessity of discovering whether East Coast tsetse flies could spread ss, dated June 1903
  • WTI/RST/G/26/29: memorandum and 2 letters from Colonel Hayes Sadler re steps taken to establish the range and distribution of the tsetse fly, dated June-July 1903
  • WTI/RST/G/26/30: letter and telegram from DB to Sir Michael Foster reporting increasing suspicion of the tsetse fly as the vector, dated July 1903
  • WTI/RST/G/26/31: to DB from Hugh O Savile, CMS Industrial Mission, re testing inhabitants of Mutungo for ss, dated July 1903
  • WTI/RST/G/26/32: copy of telegram to DB from Stordy at Nawasha re trypanosomes found in the blood of ponies from the Abyssinian Boundary Commission, dated [Aug 1903]
  • WTI/RST/G/26/33: between DB and Colonel Hayes Sadler re nagana in cattle at Jinja and proposal to move the ss laboratory out of Entebbe, 3 letters, dated August 1903
  • WTI/RST/G/26/34: to DB from Dr Albert Cook re ss cases observed on 500 mile journey through Uganda, dated August 1903
  • WTI/RST/G/26/35: [From the Principal Medical Officer to Colonel Hayes Sadler] re people's fears of contracting ss, dated August 1903
  • WTI/RST/G/26/36: correspondence re staff, 10 letters, June-July 1903, dated 1903
  • WTI/RST/G/26/37: correspondence with Colonel Hayes Sadler re dispute over photography in DB's laboratories, 3 letters, dated July 1903
  • WTI/RST/G/26/38: arrangements for DB's departure from Uganda, 6 letters, dated August 1903

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    1902-1903

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    1 file (in 5 parts)

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