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 HuTCHiNS (E.). Annual Report of Chief Veterinary OfSiceT,— Uganda 



Dept. Agric. Ann. Rept. for llie Year ending 31st March 1918j 

 Kampala, 1918, pp. 36-41. [Received 19th April 1919.] 



Deaths of cattle from trypanosomiasis were not quite so numerous 

 as in previous years though several outbreaks occurred, one trader 

 losing 21 out of 25 oxen from Trypanoso)na pecorum, and in another 

 district 80 out of 108 transport oxen became infected. The disease in 

 this case appears to have been mamly spread by Tabanidae, especially 

 Tabanus africanics. Another outbreak was reported where Glossina 

 fusca occurred. No outbreaks of trypanosomiasis have been recorded 

 in Busoga amongst transport oxen since the road on which G. palli- 

 dipes was found in 1916 was closed. Stomoxys calcitrans is considered 

 to be chiefly concerned in spreading T. pecorum and T. vivax at 

 Kampala. Some extensions of the previously known distribution of 

 Glossina morsitans are reported. Several deaths occurred amongst 

 transport oxen from African Coast fever and anaplasmosis, and a 

 number of dogs were treated for piroplasmosis. 



Low (CI. C). Antimony in the Treatment of American Leishmaniasis 

 of the Skin.—Brit. Med. Jl, London, no. 3042, 19th April 1919, 

 pp. 479-480. 



A case is recorded in British Honduras of infestation of man with 

 the larvae of Dermatohia hominis (cyaniventris), 30 maggots being 

 removed from various parts of the body. A sore subsequently 

 appeared on the pinna of the right ear, from which, 2| years later, 

 Leishmania ameriama was isolated. No treatment checked the 

 progress of the disease until antimony ointment was tried 5 years 

 later, followed by intravenous injections of antimony tartrate continued 

 over a period of 4 months ; this resulted in a complete and permanent 

 cure, no secondary buccal lesions developing. 



Bassett-Smith (P. W.). Naval Cases of Malaria contracted in 

 England, 1918.— JZ. R.N. M.S., London, v, no. 2, April, 1919, pp. 

 201-202. 



During 1918 nine fresh naval cases of malaria were reported in 

 England, of which only two had ever been abroad and neither of 

 these had had previous attacks. Most of the cases occurred in the 

 spring. Many specimens of Anopheles maculipennis were found in 

 marshes in Suffolk and this species also occurred among mosquitos 

 sent from Kent, as well as larger numbers of Cidex pipiens. All cases 

 were treated at once and placed under mosquito nets until they could 

 be transferred to non-malarial districts. The pools were paraffined 

 to destroy the larvae, and the edges kept free of grass, the area involved 

 being so large that it was impossible to adopt more extensive measures. 



Malone (A. E.). A case of Malaria contracted in England. — Jl, 

 R.N.M.S., London, v, no. 2, April 1919, p. 202. 



A case of malaria is recorded from Pembroke dock. The man in 

 question had never been abroad but had lived in H.M. Dockyard, 

 Sheerness, from January 1916 to April 1918. There is, however, a 



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