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4. I am informed by the Chief Medical Officer that the
new and well-equipped laboratories and Centre for
Research in Santa Isabel (F.Poo) is practically completed.
The number of patients in the Sleeping Sickness
Concentration Camp has diminished greatly, and I understand
that only shout 200 are at present under treatment.
idea of making Elobey Taland a segregation camp for natives
suffering from this disease has not been abandoned, and I
believe that in the early part of the coming year the first
ship-load will be sent there.
I have, etc.
(Signed) C.H. Chew.
The
Vice-Consul.