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paign. Lymphangitis and glanders have practically disappeared 

 from South Africa, and scab in sheep has been reduced almost 

 to vanishing point. The veterinary research which has come from 

 South Africa, is indeed extensive, but in turning the pages of 

 the Onderstepoort reports and journal it is difficult to avoid the 

 conclusion that the results would now be more widely known and, 

 therefore, of greater use to the world at large, if rather less un- 

 finished work had been committed to print. 



EASTERN AFRICA 



In Eastern Africa, many of the results from Onderstepoort have 

 been capable of direct application, but local investigations have 

 also been necessary, and every territory has developed its own 

 laboratories for the preparation of serum and vaccine and for 

 veterinary research, as outlined in Chapter XL In 1934 an 

 important conference on the co-ordination of veterinary research 

 in all East Africa was held at Kabete (Conference, East Africa, 

 1 934b) , and an attempt was made to allot to each laboratory those 

 branches of research which it was best fitted to carry out. At the 

 same time the possibility of centralizing research for the East Afri- 

 can group of British territories at a headquarters laboratory, prob- 

 ably Kabete, was discussed at some length. 



It is only natural that the cure and prevention of animal 

 disease on European-owned estates was the first to receive serious 

 attention, but latterly the results have been applied intensively in 

 many purely native areas. The four most important diseases of 

 cattle in East Africa are rinderpest, east coast fever, pleuro-pneu- 

 monia, and trypanosomiasis, but the last-mentioned has never had 

 the importance in Kenya that it has in Tanganyika and Uganda. 



In research, the laboratory of the Kenya division of animal 

 industry at Kabete has perhaps been foremost, so some of its work 

 may be considered by way of illustration. On rinderpest (Walker 

 1929a, Daubney 1929, Kenya 1935, D.R., Pt. 2, p. 138), steady 

 progress has been made, till it is now as capable of control as 

 anthrax and black quarter. The double-inoculation or serum- 

 simultaneous method of immunization was developed especially 

 by Mr. J. Walker at Kabete, and was for many years the main 

 method of control. It has been claimed by some that a tick- 



