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Sir David Bruce, KCB,FRS,FRCP (1855-1931) and Mary, Lady Bruce,OBE (d.1931)

Sleeping Sickness

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

'Report No 1 from Dr [Cuthbert] Christy'

Christy's maps of the northern shores of Lake Victoria, showing distribution of <i>filaria perstans,</i> of ss and of banana cultivation and clothed people

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

Proof of 'Short resume of work done on sleeping sickness in Uganda' by George C Low

Copy letters re despatch of DB to Uganda

Letters re DB's powers and administrative arrangements

Résumés of telegrams re Aldo Castellani's willingness to meet DB

To DB from Lieutenant ACH Gray re progress of ss tests

Between DB and Professor Edwin Ray Lancaster, British Museum, re classification of tsetse flies and trypanosomes, 4 letters, Mar-Jul 1903

Between DB and the Colonial Office re malaria, 2 letters, Mar-Apr 1903

Copy of letter to the Royal Society from the Chief of the Portuguese Sleeping Sickness Commission re 'germ found by Castellani'

[From DB] to Sir Michael Foster, Royal Society, re attitudes to Manson, Castellani and Low

Telegram re addition of Captain Greig, IMS, to the Sleeping Sickness team

To the Army Medical Department from the Royal Society re transport of specimens

Copies of telegram and letter from the Sleeping Sickness Commission, naming trypanosomes as probable cause of ss

Letters of congratulation to DB from Colonel Hayes Sadler and from W Taylor at the War Office, Apr-May 1903

Instructions [from DB] re investigation of distribution of ss cases and of tsetse flies, 3 letters

To DB from Colonel Hayes Sadler re German investigations into ss

[From DB] to Sir Michael Foster re tests to establish the tsetse fly as the vector

Between DB and the Bishop of Uganda re help from missionaries with gathering of statistics, 5 letters, May-Jun 1903

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, May-Jun 1903

Between DB and C A Wiggins, Medical Officer at Kisumu isolation hospital, 2 letters

Letter from the German chief medical officer at Bukoba re spread of ss

Draft letter from DB to Sir Michael Foster

Replies to questionnaires from missionaries and officials, 38 letters and 1 map, May-Jul 1903

Two letters re cases of ss among members of the armed forces in East Africa, Jun & Jul 1903

From DB to the Commissioner and Consul General of British East Africa, re necessity of discovering whether East Coast tsetse flies could spread ss

Memorandum and 2 letters from Colonel Hayes Sadler re steps taken to establish the range and distribution of the tsetse fly, Jun-Jul 1903

Letter and telegram from DB to Sir Michael Foster reporting increasing suspicion of the tsetse fly as the vector

To DB from Hugh O Savile, CMS Industrial Mission, re testing inhabitants of Mutungo for ss

Copy of telegram to DB from Stordy at Nawasha re trypanosomes found in the blood of ponies from the Abyssinian Boundary Commission

Between DB and Colonel Hayes Sadler re nagana in cattle at Jinja and proposal to move the ss laboratory out of Entebbe, 3 letters

To DB from Dr Albert Cook re ss cases observed on 500 mile journey through Uganda

[From the Principal Medical Officer to Colonel Hayes Sadler] re people's fears of contracting ss

Correspondence re staff, 10 letters, Jun-Jul 1903

Correspondence with Colonel Hayes Sadler re dispute over photography in DB's laboratories, 3 letters

Arrangements for DB's departure from Uganda, 6 letters

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, Mar-Jul 1903

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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, Mar-Jul 1903

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