PHYSICIAN-MISSIONARISE FOR AFRICA’S SICK

New Zealand Tablet, 3 December 1914, Page 51

PHYSICIAN-MISSIONARISE FOR AFRICA’S SICK

The 7 desperate and seemingly hopeless struggle with, sleeping sickness still goes on in Africa. Both Protestant and Catholic missionaries are doing everything in their power to aid the Government in its efforts to check the ravages of this disease. At the present session of the' School of Tropical Medicine two Catholic priests have entered as students. Just now this scourge is very prevalent in the region lying between the Itimbiri and the Congo rivers. A new station has been opened by the Norbertins at the mouth of the Itimbiri and placed ,in charge of two missionaries specially trained for this work. The first. Father Dolan, has taken the course in tropical \medicine, and is, moreover, descended from a long line of English physicians, his father being a noted bacteriologist. The second. Father Nieberding, is equally familiar with the treatment of sleeping sickness. The station at Moenge contains numerous patients, and the natives of the neighboring villages come voluntarily to be examined by the Fathers and to receive the injection of atoxye, which sometimes arrests the sickness.