Report on sleeping sickness in northern Rhodesia to February 1912 / by A. May.

  • May, A.
Date:
1912
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Credit: Report on sleeping sickness in northern Rhodesia to February 1912 / by A. May. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    s Ixrmarlin. lii all tlu* tlirue ratal cases death occuiTcd in tlie ivpical somnolent state. Kaeh case was weighed every niontli and it is ' very interesting to note that nji to a month l)efore deatli eacli of the tliree patients increased in weight. Thei*e was no oe<lema and increase in weight was due to subcutaneous fat. During the last stage it was impossible to weigh the ])atients hut they evidently lost weight rapidly. Name. About a month before I When admitted. death. Alefen, 10;5 lbs. 1 u; lbs. Rupia, 88 lbs. 128 lbs. .Tambo, 94 lbs. 112 lbs. 1 am informed that Chisako and Naudwe who were discharged in February, IhlO are well. These are the two cases in whose glands trypano- somes were found once only. OCCURENCE OF CASES OF HUMAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS OUTSIDE KNOWN ENDEMIC AREAS AND IN THE ABSENCE OF GLOSSINA PALPALIS. As previously reported twenty eight cases of the disease had been found in the Luangwa Valley up to the end of November, ll'lO, at which time an active search was being conducted for the presence of Glossina Palpalis both on the Luangwa and Zambesi Rivers and their tributaries. These searches having proved negative, and it is becoming evident that Glossina Palpalis was not to be held responsible for these infections, a Commission was appointed with the primary object of carrying out investiga- tions as to the transmitter of the disease. Luangwa Valley Sleeping Sickness Gontntissionm As first constituted this Commission consisted of Dr. Allan Kinghorn, of the Liverpool School of Ti-o])ical Medicine and the West African Medical Staff as Chief Investigator, (Dr. Kinghorn had previously, with Mr. Montgomery in I'.107—1908, under the auspices of the Liverpool School been in charge of similar investigations on Lake Tanganyika and elsewhere in Northern Rhodesia), Dr. H. Leach of the Northern Rhodesia Medical service, an Entomologist and a Bacteriologist. Shortly after Dr. Kinghorn’s arrival in the Luangwa Valley, Dr. i Leach was granted sick leave. He was replaced Ity Dr. A. F. Wallace of this service. Mr. LI. Lloyd formerly Curator of the Slteffield University Museum