Notices of the proceedings at the meetings of the members of the Royal Institution of Great Britain with abstracts of the discourses . Fig. 5.—Dr. Hodges Map of Distribution!of Sleeping- Sickness. 1904.] on Sleeping Sickness in Uganda. 515 any manifest symptoms of the disease. This seems to be animportant point, because if this trypanosome is in reality the causeof sleeping sickness, a certain proportion of the natives inhabitingthe sleeping sickness area ought to harbour these parasites in theirblood. On the other hand, if this parasite is the true cause ofthis disease, then no native living
Notices of the proceedings at the meetings of the members of the Royal Institution of Great Britain with abstracts of the discourses . Fig. 5.—Dr. Hodges Map of Distribution!of Sleeping- Sickness. 1904.] on Sleeping Sickness in Uganda. 515 any manifest symptoms of the disease. This seems to be animportant point, because if this trypanosome is in reality the causeof sleeping sickness, a certain proportion of the natives inhabitingthe sleeping sickness area ought to harbour these parasites in theirblood. On the other hand, if this parasite is the true cause ofthis disease, then no native living in a non-sleeping sickness areaought to harbour a single trypanosome in his blood. It will, there-fore, be interesting to examine the blood of natives in the sleepingsickness area and the non-sleeping sickness area of , it will act as a check if we examine natives living in anon-sleeping area, say in Nairobi, in British East Africa, which issome hundreds of miles away from any infected place. Eighty natives from the sleeping sickness area were examined, withthe result that twenty-three were found to have trypanos
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