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Uganda Under Colonial Rule, in Government Reports, 1903–1961 - Volumes
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Social Services, 1908-1961
This volume includes a range of government reports related to social services, such as education and medicine, in Uganda, dated between 1908 to 1961. As late as the early twenties the missions were, apart from a small grant from the government, entirely responsible for the provision of education in Uganda. In 1925 a Department of Education was set up. Working in cooperation with the missions, the new department was responsible for an inspectorate of what still remained the missions schools. In the following year, the Government secured the means of determining the educational policy of the Protectorate. The Medical Department's principal responsibility as originally constituted, was the medical care of officials. It was the ravages of the sleeping sickness epidemic in the early years of the century that first involved the Department with the health of the African population. In 1906, a special section of the Medical Department was formed to investigate the disease and treat the sick. Public Relations was also a priority for the colonial administration in 1946 its stated aims were "firstly to serve as a channel of information between the Government and the people, and secondly to popularise and promote all measures directed to the social progress and material welfare of the people". Following a departmental re-organisation, in 1952 the new Department of Information's aims were stated included "iii) to kill rumours and combat subversive propaganda, and iv) to publicise Uganda abroad." This new remit had a greater focus on control than that of the predecessor department. Read more →
Transport and Public Works, 1912-1961
This volume includes a range of government reports related to transport and public works in Uganda dated between 1912 to 1961. Records relating to the railway cover its management by the Uganda Railway Administration, between its establishment in Uganda in 1912 and the establishment of the Kenya and Uganda Railways and Harbours Organisation in 1926. The latter department was headquartered in Nairobi, which excludes that department from the purview of this resource. The Department of Public Works was one of the first to be established and was created in 1900/01. The department was responsible for the construction and maintenance of all government buildings and the main roads. It was also responsible for government transport and water supplies. Read more →
Trade and Commerce, 1910-1961
This volume includes a range of government reports related to trade and commerce in Uganda dated between 1910 to 1961. From 1901 until 1909, the whole of the customs collected at Mombasa was appropriated to the East Africa Protectorate. Thereafter, Uganda received her share and in 1912 established her own customs department, where the Director of Customs was responsible for preparing an annual trade report. In 1917, the customs departments of the two territories were amalgamated, and the Chief Commissioner of Customs at Mombasa publishing until 1948 an Annual Trade Report for Kenya and Uganda. The trade reports for 1910/11, 1916/17 and 1922-1948 are included in this collection. In 1951, the Uganda Government established a Department of Commerce, which in 1954 changed its name to the Department of Trade. In 1958, the department was integrated into the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, these records are also included. In 1946, following the report in 1944 of W.K.H. Campbell (who had been League of Nations advisor on cooperation), legislation on developing cooperative societies for the marketing of crops was enacted; the first Annual Report was published a year later. Read more →
Development Corporation and Boards, 1948-1961
This volume includes a range of government reports related to natural resources in Uganda dated between 1903 to 1961. In the years following the second world war, the Uganda Government embarked upon a policy of the intensive development of the Protectorate's economic resources through the medium of quasi-government boards. This policy reached its climax with the establishment in 1952 of the Uganda Development Corporation under the Uganda Development Corporation Act passed in that year. The purpose of the corporation was to participate in the industrial and economic development of the Protectorate by promoting and assisting in the financing, management or establishment of new undertakings and schemes for the better organisation, management or efficient carrying out of existing undertakings. It was also responsible for the conduct of research into the industrial, mineral and agricultural potentialities of the country. The Electricity Board was established in 1948 to manage and direct the generation and distribution of electric power in Uganda. The board had a statutory monopoly for supplying public demand for electricity. Uganda’s two major export crops, cotton and robusta coffee, were marketed through two statutory boards - the Lint Marketing Board and the Coffee Industry (or Marketing) Board. The Lint Marketing Board was established by the Lint Marketing Board Ordinance of 1949, whilst the Coffee Industry Board was established by the Coffee Industry Ordinance of 1953. Read more →
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