206 SLEEPING SICKNESS, FLIES, AND DISEASE 



No Europeans have been infected since 1906. Prac- 

 tically the whole of the population of the fly-infested 

 shores of Lake Victoria have been removed to districts 

 inland, wlierc the tsetse does not exist, and it is 

 belie\'ed that there can now be but few cases of fresh 

 infection so far as the mainland is concerned. Steps 

 are in progress for the complete depopulation of the 

 islands in tlie Lake. It was feared that this would 

 prove a most dhhcult matter, but the native Govern- 

 ment is now sliowing such confidence in the efficacy 

 of the measures for the suppression of the sickness 

 that the request for final action has come from them. 

 About 21,000 souls will have to be moved, and 

 arrangements are being made to locate them on 

 vacant lands in Chagwe and in other districts of the 

 mainland. The realisation of this project will put the 

 finishing touch to the whole scheme. 



The pestilent tsetse fiy will still infest the shores 

 of the great Lake, but it will find no more victims 

 on which to play its malevolent part. Sleeping sick- 

 ness has ceased to be tiie dominant scourge of this 

 territory, and the disease has now been reduced to a 

 merely sporadic scale. Continued vigilance, however, 

 is essential, and the recrudescence of sleeping sickness 

 can only be averted by the consistent and vigorous 

 maintenance of those pre\'entive measures which have 

 already pro\'ed efficacious. The four segregation 

 camps, in which several thousands of sufferers are 

 still located, are in full working order, and though 

 no effective curative treatment has yet been disco^'ered, 

 the lives of many of the patients are being consider- 

 ably prolongctl. The measures taken to drive away 

 the tsetse flies from the neighbouriiood of Entebbe 

 and of otlier important points on the Lake shore, 



