§ MR. REES (Montgomery Boroughs)To ask the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies whether special measures are being taken to guard against the spread of the sleeping sickness into British Central Africa Protectorate and North Eastern Rhodesia by the tsetse fly or by other agencies; and whether the effect of the game preserves at Chiromo has been considered in connection with this contingency.
(Answered by Mr. Churchill.) No apprehension has hitherto been expressed by the administration of the British Central Africa Protectorate or that of North Eastern Rhodesia as to the spread of sleeping sickness into those territories, nor has the Commissioner of British Central Africa Protectorate recommended the adoption of measures to guard against it. Complaints have been made in one quarter in the Protectorate that the Elephant Marsh game reserve at Chiromo harbours the tsetse fly, but the suggestion is denied by the Commissioner.