Report on sleeping sickness / by Aubrey Hodges.

  • Hodges, Aubrey.
Date:
1902
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Credit: Report on sleeping sickness / by Aubrey Hodges. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Jinja, Busoga. April 1st, 1902, Sir. I have the honour to for\vard preliminary notes on the investigation of SLEEPING SICKNESS and other epidemic diseases. These notes are naturally as yet only fragmentary, and anything they may contain beyond actual observation remains, of course, subject to alteration or i-evision at a later date, though I shall hope to be able to embody the bulk of them in my final report. As it will probably be at least two months before I shall be able to submit my report, perhaps in the meantime a few particulars of results so far obtained may prove of use or interest in case investigations are being pursued in other parts of the Protectorate. In this case, indeed, I shall be thankful to receive a summary of any facts which may have been gathered, and which might furnish a guide to further enquiry into the seemingly complex causation of SLEEPING SICKNESS, and its connections, if anj*, with Filaria Perstans. I have also the honour to foi’ward two boxes of slides belonging to the London School of Tropical Medicine, in which I have replaced those which I have broken and added twenty- seven extra. All the slides are charged with blood smears from cases of SLEEPING SICKNESS. I send also five bottles containing mosquitos collected from Jinja, Naniumbas, Banda (Kairanyas), Sigulu Island and Buvuma, and I have the honour to request that they may be transmitted to England for examination and indentification. I have, etc., (Signed) AUBREY D. P. HODGES, M.D., Bond., Medical Officer Busoga. The Acting P.M.O., Uganda Protectorate.
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