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Captain Gray is inclined to place considerable reliance on the effect of the drug in the cases of young children in the early stages of sleeping sickness. Ile also suggests the compulsory removal of all infants from Buvuma. I am, however, given to understand that he has been misinformed as regards the lack of opposition, on the part of the natives, to such a project. The suggestion will not be lost sight of, and special measures for saving the lives of the little ones will have my special consideration.
31. In conclusion, I believe I am justified in saying that the measures, now being taken to restrict the spread of sleeping sickness give reasonable hope of success. The tsetse on the lake-shore finds no more material to work upon; the necessary link for the transmission of the disease has been broken; and those already infected have been removed to localities where they can be of no danger to their fellow creatures. Curative measures are being tried on a large scale at various centres, and I have every reason to believe that the medical officers entrusted with this side of the scheme are thoroughly interested in their work and will spare no efforts to attain such success as may be possible.
32. I still believe that, with the steady continuance of consistent and strenuous efforts, "sleeping sickness" in Uganda will, ere long, be practically stamped out, and that the country may, at no very distant period, be freed from the terrible scourge that has swept away over 200,000 souls during the past seven years.
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I have, &c.,
H. HESKETH BELL,
Governor.
Enclosure 2 in No. 1.
SIR,
MEDICAL OFFICER-IN-CHARGE, S.S.E.I., to DEPUTY COMMISSIONER.
S.S.E.I. Office, Entebbe, December 6, 1907.
I HAVE the honour to forward a report on the Sleeping Sickness Segregation
Camps from December, 1906, to November 30th, 1907, as requested by His Excel- lency the Governor.
I have, &c.,
A. C. H. GRAY,
Medical Officer-in-Charge, S.S.E.I.
REPORT ON THE SLEEPING SICKNESS CAMPS, UGANDA, FROM DECEMBER, 1906, TO NOVEMBER, 1907.
On May 21st Dr. Hodges left Uganda on leave. Mr. Strathairn was left in charge of sleeping sickness work until I took over from him on June 18th, 1907.
Our sleeping sickness staff was still further reduced by the fact that Dr. A. Bagshawe and Dr. Wiggins had gone to England on leave and to the tragic death of Dr. Densham early in June, so that only Drs. van Someren and Uffman beside myself remained to carry on the work.
On July 4th provisional sanction to the segregation scheme arrived from the Colonial Office, and it was stated that medical officers and hospital assistants would be sent out. On August 15th final approval was given.
It was thought advisable, however, not to await the arrival of the special medical officers, but to proceed at once with the construction of further camps on the lines of that at Buwanuka, Busiro. Orders were sent at once to Dr. Baker, the Medical Officer at Jinja, to look for a suitable site for a camp in Usoga, and the Medical Officer-in-Charge left for Chagwe to select a site there.
On July 24th Dr. Baker sent word that he had found a suitable site for a camp
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