Sleeping Sickness 



the big game in any district in which the sickness 

 has appeared to prevent the spread of the disease. 

 It is to be hoped, however, that this deplorable step 

 will not have to be finally taken, and that Africa 

 may yet be saved from being denuded of its most 

 interesting feature. At the same time the gravity 

 of the present situation cannot be over-estimated, 

 for although the administration of Uganda has 

 now, by taking stringent measures, brought it under 

 control, a tendency to spread down the Nile by way 

 of Gondokoro is in itself a terrible menace to lower 

 Egypt, and its appearance in the Katanga region, 

 west of Lake Tanganyika, has created the utmost 

 consternation, seeing that the Cape Railway has 

 been recently engaged in completing an extension 

 to tap this very district. The risk of the sickness 

 being carried into Rhodesia is daily becoming more 

 evident ; for should this ever occur it would lead to 

 the closing of the mines, to the detriment of her 

 ever-increasing prosperity. But it is earnestly hoped 

 that the time may be imminent when a remedy will 

 be discovered. 



lOI 



