SLEEPING SICKNESS
A NATIONAL BUREAU. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright LONDON, April 9. Owing to failure to establish, an International Sleeping Sickness Bureau, the Government is establishing a .national one in London. Britain and Germany are signing a treaty jointly to combat sleeping sickness in Uganda and German East Africa.
During 1908 sleeping sickness Increased to an alarming extant .in Afrioo, from 40,030 to 53,003 natives having diet! In Uganda, which is on the shores of lake Victoria Ifyanza, while in tho Congo, according to tho "British Medical Jcmr* nal," as many as 400,000 ;to 600.000 perished. In -November last Ur Koch, who had spent eighteen months on Sesso Daks Victoria Kyansa, studying sleeping ' sickness, declared that the Insect "gloeslna palpalis" (tsetse fly) nocks tho blood, nl the crocodiles and thence spreads tbs germs of sleeping sickness along the hanks of the streams. Ho recommended tho do< ' struction of tho crocodiles and tho re : moval of "bushes where they lark.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 6492, 11 April 1908, Page 9
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