Abstract
THE brochure referred to below contains the results of an investigation undertaken by the author into the distribution and other problems of sleeping sickness in the Katanga. His object is to consider the question from a general point of view and to collate the results of two years of work in the northern part of the province. He wishes to prove that “methodical work on the spot is the sole means of combating the evil in each district.” If the differences presented by the districts “are lost sight of in attempting to put in practice measures prescribed in ignorance of the actual conditions, only negative, though costly, results can be obtained.” With these objects in view, the author sets forth his observations upon the Katanga, its geography, commerce, and people, and upon the special problems of sleeping sickness in that country, such as the origin and progress of the disease, its diagnosis, treatment, and natural course, the distribution and occurrence of the transmitting fly, Glossina palpalis, and the results of administrative efforts to cope with the evil. His descriptions are supplemented by nine maps and a number of excellent photographs.
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La Maladie du Sommeil au Katanga. By F. O. Stohr (Oxon.) Pp. 83, with maps and illustrations. (London: Constable and Co., Ltd., 1912.) Price 4s, net
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Sleeping Sickness in the Katanga. 1 . Nature 90, 337 (1912). https://doi.org/10.1038/090337a0
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