SLEEPING SICKNESS.
DERIVED FROM BLOOD OF CROCODILES. Received November 5, 7.34 a.m. > LONDON, November 4. Professor Koch spent eighteen months oil Sezse Islands, Lake Victoria Nyanza, studying the sleeping sickness. The"professor declares that the insect "glossina palpalis" sucks the blood of the crocodiles and thence spreads the germs of sleeping sickness along the banks of the streams. He recommends the destruction of the crocodiles and the removal of bushes where they lurk.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8873, 6 November 1907, Page 5
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72SLEEPING SICKNESS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8873, 6 November 1907, Page 5
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