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REUTER'S Agency announces that, at the invitation of the Colonial Office, a conference of various African colonies and protectorates has been summoned to discuss concerted international measures for dealing with sleeping sickness. This coference met at the Foreign Office for the time on Monday, Government delegates being present from Germany, Congo Free State, France, Great Britain, Portugal, and the Sudan. The delegates are as follows:—Germany, Herr von Jacobs, Dr. Ehrlich, and Dr. Fulleborn; Congo Free State, Colonel Lantonnais, Vice-Governor General, Commandant Tonneau, M. Rutten, and Dr. van Campenhout; France, Dr. Kermorgant, Dr. Paul Gouzion, Prof. Blanchard, and Dr. Laveran; Great Britain, Lord Fitzmaurice (president), Sir W. Foster, Mr. A. W. Clarke, Mr. H. J. Read, and Sir Patrick Manson; Portugal, Dr. Correa Pinto; Sudan, Colonel Hunter and Dr. Balfour, of the Gordon College, Khartoum. The work before the conference includes the question of the holding of regular conferences, the establishment of a central bureau of information, and the assignment of definite points for investigation to particular countries or individuals. Lord Fitzmaurice, president of the conference, made the following remarks at the opening meeting to describe the objects in view:—
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International Conference on Sleeping Sickness . Nature 76, 188 (1907). https://doi.org/10.1038/076188a0
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