AFRICA’S SCOURGE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3769, 15 August 1907, Page 4

AFRICA’S SCOURGE.

International Measures to Deal With Sleeping Sickness. At the invitation of the British Colonial Office, a conference of the various African colonies and protectorates interested .has been summoned to discuss concerted international measures for dealing with the sleeping sickness which has now appeared in the Sudan, and is threatening German East Africa, Rhodesia, and British Central Africa. This conference met at. the Foreign Office for the first time in June, Government delegates being present from Germany, Congo Free State, France, Great Britain, Portugal, and the Sudan. The work before the conference, says Reuter, includes the question of the holding of regular conferences, the establishment of a central bureau erf information, and the assignment of definite points for investigation to particular countries or individuals. In the case of Uganda, Mr Hesketh Bell, his Majesty’s Commissioner for the protectorate, has prepared a scheme for dealing with the scourge in his protectorate. The main features of the scheme are the deportation of the population from the infected lake shore, and the segregation of the sick in a number of large camps, where they can be treated by atoxyl or other drugs which give hope for success.