Long Safari: report, itinerary and financial statement

Papers relating to Burkitt's 'Long Safari' in East, Central and South Africa investigating the incidence of 'Lymphoma syndrome'. Burkitt personally visited all hospitals near the supposed edge of the 'lymphoma belt'. The file includes a full report of the investigation '"Lymphoma syndrome" safari in East, Central and South Africa', including diagrammatic maps, list of hospitals visited and financial statement recording the cost of the survey; Burkitt's itinerary from 7 Oct 15 Dec 1961; printed pictures of jaw tumours; two letters from Burkitt, one to Dr Leonard Engel, New York about lymphoma syndrome, datd 14 Sep 1961 and one to Sir Harold Himsworth about his trip findings, dated 15 Nov 1961; and a safari report list (those to whom the report will be sent).

The survey was carried out when Burkitt was in the Department of Surgery, Makerere College Medical School and Mulago Hospital, Kampala, Uganda.

A copy of 'The Long Safari' account can be found in D/1/4-5 and in Section B (WTI/DPB/B/4).

1961

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The trip subsequently called 'The Long Safari' was undertaken by Burkitt and two companions, Edward ('Ted') Williams and Cliff Nelson. Ted had worked for years in a mission hospital in Northern Uganda and Cliff had recently left a government appointment to run a mission hospital in Tanzania. All were friends. As well as camping equipment they took a cine camera, typewriter and a tape recorder. The trip attracted publicity which led to it appearing in Readers Digest and subsequently the centre of a book which was published in America under the title 'Mr Burkitt in Africa' but subsequently in England under the title 'The Long Safari'.