4g8 SCIENCE IN AFRICA 



purposes. The chief research carried on is the collection of 

 demographic data by the equipe de prospection. 



In 1936 the population was reported as 735,606 Africans, 50 

 mixed races and 400 Europeans. In 1 936 there were 62 European and 

 4,255 African in-patients, and 933 European and 544,515 African 

 out-patients. 



Government expenditure in 1935 amounted to 25,748,748 francs, 

 and that of the services sanitaires 3,863,897 francs. 



BELGIAN 



The Institute of Tropical Medicine at Antwerp, under the director- 

 ship of Professor J. Rodhain, corresponds to the London School of 

 Hygiene and Tropical Medicine as a headquarters. Collaboration 

 exists between this institute and the state laboratories in the 

 Congo, so that many of the problems which occur in Africa are 

 referred to the institute, and most of the results of research appear 

 in the Annales de la Societe Beige de Medecine Tropicale, published 

 since 1920. 



Of the services working in the Congo there is first the State 

 Medical Service, which has a headquarters in Brussels at the Minis- 

 try for Colonies under Dr. A. N. Duren. This has charge of health 

 in the whole colony. Under the state service the railway provides 

 a special medical organization for its employees. In Katanga the 

 medical service is also dependent on the central state service, and 

 receives assistance from the railway and industrial medical services; 

 it publishes the Bulletin Medical du Katanga, which gives a full account 

 of the work at the hospitals, clinics and research centres in Katanga. 

 On the research side there is a state laboratory at Leopoldville, 

 with a large research staff, and others at Coquilhatville, Stanley- 

 ville, Elisabethville and Katega, each with one research officer. 

 The European staff of the service included in 1937 74 doctors, 

 6 medecins hygienistes, 243 nurses and 16 health visitors, while 

 there were 1,920 Africans such as nurses, aides-injirmiers, medical 

 assistants^ and 31 gardes sanitaires. The mandated territory of 

 Ruanda-Urundi had 15 doctors, i dispenser, and 12 sanitary 

 agents, and the native staff of 295 included 12 medical assistants, 

 12 qualified nurses, 105 aides-inJirmiers, and sanitary workers. 



Although the government service is responsible for medical 



