§ MR. REES (Montgomery Boroughs)I beg to ask the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies whether, with reference to the First Report of the research expedition sent out to Central Africa by the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine to the effect that glossina palpalis is not the only carrier of sleeping sickness, and to the fact that glossina morsitans is found all over Nyassaland, the Government is taking special steps to prevent the further spread of sleeping sickness southwards to Nyassaland.
§ COLONEL SEELYI regret to say that a telegram has been recently received from the Governor of Nyassaland reporting that sleeping sickness has appeared in that Protectorate. Steps are being taken to deal with the matter, the importance of which is and has been fully realised both by the Secretary of State and the Governor.