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industrial training vary in age from fifteen to nineteen years. In 1900 

 the })rinting department of the mission turned out lOO.OOO impressions 

 from four printing presses, which are regularly running. A great deal of 

 Government printing work for the })olitical, administrative, and military 

 departments was successfully undertaken. A little jiaper called Uganda Notes 

 is now produced, inde[)endently of the mission, at one of the presses, by native 

 printers. It should be added, from my personal knowledge, that instruction 

 in reading and writing is given to tlie nati\es, and a good deal of printing 

 is conducted in the following native languages, which have been reduced to 

 writing in the first ]ilace by the Anglican and l\oniaii Catholic missionaries: 

 Luganda, Urunyoio (which serves as the common language for the whole of 

 the Western Province), Lusoga, and several distinct dialects and languages 

 in the District of Kukedi. Mr. liorup, at the head of the Industrial ^lission, 

 states: "1 tiud the Kaganda as ai)t and (piick to learn iiidushial pursuits 

 as the average boy in England. ... I should say indeed that they 

 were rather ([uicker in intelligence than iMiropeans, were I not afraid of 

 being taken lor an enthusiast. To tak<' ]>rinting as an instance: alter less 

 than two years" training I am able to leave the actual working of the 

 })rinting office namely, tyiie-setting, making u}) pages, locking up forms, 

 correcting alter jiroofs have been read and marked, getting the ])ress ready 

 for printing, distrilniting ty[)e, cutting pa}>er, doing light bookbinding, 

 etc., entirely to the Baganda youths trained in the mission.'' 



An extensive medical work is carried on by the Church Missionary 

 Society in Uganda. A large and admiralily appointed hospital has been 

 erected at Mengo, at wliich in the year 1900 there were 88,988 out-patients 

 and 511 in-patients. The hospital contains sixty-one beds, and its staff 

 consists of Dr. A. K. Cook, B.A., M.D. ; Dr. .f. H. ( ook. M.R., F.K.C.S. ; Dr. 

 E. H. Bond, 31 .D.; an English sister, three qualified English nurses, and five 

 native assistants. 



The Roman Church is represented by two missionaiy societies in the 

 Uganda Protectorate — that of the White Fathers, which is mainly French, 

 and has its headquarters in the regency of Tunis and in Algeria ; and the Mill 

 Hill ^Mission, which is English, and proceeds from the well-known Poman 

 Catholic ^Nlissionar}' College at Mill Hill, Middlesex. The Mission of the White 

 Fathers is presided over in the Uganda Protectorate by Monseigneur Henri 

 Streicher, Bisho]) of Tabarca and Ap^ostolical Vicar of the Victoria Nyauza. 



The first missionaries of the White Fathers entered Uganda in 1879. 

 These missionaries met with a very cordial rece])tion from Mutesa, and 

 were endowed by him with a small property. This mission underwent 

 the .same vicissitudes and dangers in the years previous to the institution 

 of the British Protectorate that were undergone by the agents of the 

 Church ^Missionary Society. In 1894, owing to the more pjeaceful 



