| Reference number | NLB/47/634 |
| Alternative reference number | NLB/47 p374-376 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Copy letter from John Rose Bradford to the Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office |
| Date | 4 March 1913 |
| Description | At a recent meeting of the Tropical Diseases Committee Bradford had the opportunity to lay before the Committee the opinions recently expressed at a meeting of the Entomological Research Committee at the Colonial Office, together with the views of Sir W H Manning, lately Governor of Nyasaland [Malawi] with regard to the further conduct of the investigation in progress under direction of the Royal Society's Committee [Sleeping Sickness]. The Committee discussed proposals by Sir David Bruce for an experiment to ascertain the value of game destruction as a means of eliminating hte flies that carry sleeping sickness. The Committee agreed that this experiment offers the only practical means of solving the question in relation to the African fauna to the maintenance and spread od human trypanosomiasis.
Bradford relays the opinions of the Committee; this includes that the experiment be proposed and that an entomologist be employed investigate the natural history of the infective fly. |
| Extent | 1p |
| Format | Carbon |
| Access status | Open |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | Name | Dates |
| NA1395 | Bradford; Sir; John Rose (1863 - 1935); physician and physiologist | 1863 - 1935 |