A report on sleeping sickness in the Volta river district of the Gold Coast Colony with suggestions for dealing with it / by Arthur E. Horn.

  • Horn, Arthur E.
Date:
1910
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Credit: A report on sleeping sickness in the Volta river district of the Gold Coast Colony with suggestions for dealing with it / by Arthur E. Horn. 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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    The passage of native traders and carriers over 1 the frontier and across the Volta should be rigidly] restricted to the following places :— J (IJ Ferries over the Volta at BRITISH KRATCHI-KETE-KRATCHI ' NKAMI—GABE. PESSE—LABO LABO. SENKYI—AGOLI. ADDAH—ATITITI. (on the sea coast.) others being added as necessary. (2) Roads entering the Colony, at DAINO (on 6.40 parallel.) BRITISH KPEVE ” ANJIRAWASE. (near TSITO, on South eastern boundary.) AFRANCONDUA, or PODE (on 6.20 parallel,) and other roads along the frontier to Ouittah, as the exigencies of trade may demand, provided that each such road is guarded by a Preventive Service Station. In this scheme it is apparent that the effective carrying out of the proposals depends largely upon an efficient Preventive Service on the East and South- east borders of the Colony, and on the lower reaches of the Volta below Daino, but it will be seen that the suggested service from this Department is little more than the duties they already perform. It depends mainly on efficient policing of the frontier and river, with some additional responsibility . and work (mainly clerical) for the native Officers in Charge of the frontier and ferry stations. There is no | intention of placing any such medical work as the l palpation for enlarged glands, in the hands of any J of these officials whose duties, with regards to travel- lers, will consist of inspecting and countersigning