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company some ^^50,000 annually, and up to 1931 ^^(^i 65,000 had 

 been expended on buildings. 



The activities of the other large companies are proportionate; 

 thus the Union Miniere has a maternity centre and feeding consul- 

 tant at each of its branches; consultations and free meals are pro- 

 vided for children up to five years, and subsequently schools with 

 free meals up to fifteen years. This organization is specially 

 developed in Jadotville, where it is assisted by two mission medical 

 centres (van Nitsen 1933). The Societe de Kilo-moto has two 

 maternity homes, two orphanages and several schools, and gives 

 about 95,000 free consultations on diet every year. The Forminiere 

 has established the Berceau de Kasai at Tshikapa with the object 

 of reducing infant mortality. 



In 1937 the population of the Congo was given as 20,103 Euro- 

 peans and 11,000,000 Africans. The government maintained 25 

 hospitals for Europeans, 2 for Asiatics, and 70 for Africans, with bed 

 accommodation of 317 (Europeans), 17 (Asiatics), and 6,420 (Afri- 

 cans); 2,913 European and 85,279 African in-patients were treated 

 and 14,584 European and 836,322 African out-patients. The Mis- 

 sions Etrangeres treated 836,322 cases, and the Assistance Medicale 

 Benevole aux Indigenes 560,896. Le Budget Ordinaire for the Bel- 

 gian Congo for 1937 was 665,487,207 francs and that of the medical 

 service 62,375,218 francs. 



In Ruanda-Urundi in 1936 4 hospitals were maintained, and 

 treated 54 European and 4,720 African in-patients; a further 1,679 

 were admitted to other medical centres; 665 European patients were 

 treated and a total of 995,894 Africans by Government and subsi- 

 dized mission services. In 1936 the budget provided for an expendi- 

 ture of 4,833,825 francs on the service de Vhygiene out of a total of 

 31,279,468 francs. 



PORTUGUESE 



Little information is available on recent medical developments 

 in Angola and Mozambique. In Portugal the Lisbon School of 

 Tropical Medicine is an important headquarters, and for Mozam- 

 bique there are central laboratories for medical research at Lou- 

 rengo Marques, where sleeping sickness is the principal disease 

 studied. In 1934 there were 13 hospitals with 75 doctors and a 

 considerable staff of European and native assistants. Since the 

 First Congress of Tropical Medicine of West Africa at Loanda in 



