Notices of the proceedings at the meetings of the members of the Royal Institution of Great Britain with abstracts of the discourses . thecountry, ever saw a case of the disease before the year 1901. InApril of that year the Drs. Cook, Medical Missionaries at Kampala,reported the first case. It first broke out in the part of the country lying to the east,called Busoga. Dr. Moffatt, , the Principal Medical Officerof Uganda, is of opinion that the disease was introduced into thispart of the country when Emin Pashas Soudanese and their wivesand followers, numbering some 10,000, were brought
Notices of the proceedings at the meetings of the members of the Royal Institution of Great Britain with abstracts of the discourses . thecountry, ever saw a case of the disease before the year 1901. InApril of that year the Drs. Cook, Medical Missionaries at Kampala,reported the first case. It first broke out in the part of the country lying to the east,called Busoga. Dr. Moffatt, , the Principal Medical Officerof Uganda, is of opinion that the disease was introduced into thispart of the country when Emin Pashas Soudanese and their wivesand followers, numbering some 10,000, were brought into and settledin Busoga. These natives were brought from the edge of the Congoterritory lying to the west, and therefore from a country in which Note.—The maps, tables and illustrations in this paper are taken, with thepermission of the Royal Society, from the Further Report on Sleeping Sicknessin Uganda, by David Bruce. , David Nabarro, ,and Capt. E. D. W. Greig, (Harrison & Sons, London). The illustrations showing the parasites have been kindly lent by the BritishMedical 5
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