Report on sleeping sickness in northern Rhodesia to December, 1913 / by A. May.
- May, A.
- Date:
- 1914
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Report on sleeping sickness in northern Rhodesia to December, 1913 / by A. May. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.
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![LUAI’ULA MWKRU AND TANGANYIKA AREAS. A very satisfactory ])osition as rcGfanls tlie jn’evalence of sleeping sickness in tliese areas now exists, the whole country to the East of the Lna]nila and Lake Mweru has been depopulated and it may now lie reasonably considered that jiractically all risk of the extension of the disease is at an end. One case only of the di.sease has been discovered during the past year (this was in a native of Shiwiri’s village which had lieen removed from the Congo border north of Lake Mweru). There are now twenty-three cases under treatment, namely ten at Fort liosebery, six at Kawambwa, and seven at Abercorn, and it seems imjirobable that this number will be increased except by the addition of a few who may ])ossibly have escaped detection in the moved villages. liestrictions on the movements of the natives of these areas need now aim only at the jnevention of their return to foci of infection, i.e., tilossina Falpalis areas, and for this purpose it will be sntbeient to include as closed area only those jiarts of the Luajmla, Mweru and Tanganyika districts which have been depopnlated. It has therefore been recommended that the restrictions formerly in force in these areas should be disjiensed with and the following have been adopted in tlieir jilace. Boundary lanes for the Luapiila (Fort Rosebery) District. 'Pile original closed area extending between the Luera on the South and the Lnango on the North has Avifh the exception of one, village namely ‘('hansa-Kafnshya’ on the Ivashya stream lieen de])0])ulated. (Jlossina Paljialis exists on the .Mansa river to within a few miles of Fort. Kosc'bery station, it would therefore be ditticidt without making a separate closed area for the Miinsa to reduce the extent of the original closed area and it has heen recommended that it be allowed to stand as at present.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24916080_0007.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
