Research into the trypanosomiasis problem : a critical consideration of suggested measures : with discussion and report of the Glossina Sub-Committee / by Warrington Yorke.

  • Warrington Yorke
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[1920]
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    RESEARCH INTO THE TRYPANOSOMIASIS PROBLEM: A CRITICAL CONSIDERATION OF SUGGESTED MEASURES. By Professor WARRINGTON YORKE, M.D. Paper read at a Meeting of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Friday, October 15th, 1920. Together with Discussion and Report of Glossina Sub-Committee. Six years have elapsed since the subject of trypanosomiasis was last discussed by this Society. During this period comparatively little has been done on the subject, but since the war ended several very important papers have appeared, and further investigations are now contemplated by both the French and ourselves. I feel, therefore, that it is now oppor¬ tune to review the present position, and consider briefly the direction which further research should take. If we refer for a moment to the position shortly before the war, we remember that as a result of a considerable polemic which arose out of certain observations made by Kinghorn and myself in Northern Rhodesia, and by the Royal Society Commission in Nyasaland, the Secretary of State for the Colonies appointed an Inter-Departmental Committee, the terms of reference of which were as follows : To report— (1) Upon the present knowledge available on the question of the parts played by wild animals and tsetse-flies in Africa in the maintenance and spread of trypanosome infections of man and stock. (2) Whether it is necessary and feasible to carry out an expeiiment of game destruction m a localised area in order to gam further knowledge on these questions, and, if so, to decide the locality, probable cost, and other details of such an experiment, and to provide a scheme for its conduct. (3) Whether it is advisable to attempt the extermination of wild animals, either generally or locally, with a view of checking the trypanosome diseases of man and stock. (4) Whether any other measures should be taken in order to obtain means of controlling these diseases.
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