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from which the population could not be removed, 

 have proved successful, and those places may now be 

 considered perfectly safe, so far as sleeping sickness 

 is concerned. 



The Principal ^ledical Officer, A. D. P. Hodges, 

 furnishes the following satisfactory statement from 

 Uganda : — 



" I think that the continued and progressive 

 decrease in the death rate, which is apparent in the 

 returns from individual counties as well as in the 

 totals, is scarcely likely to have been artificially con- 

 trived or to be a mere coincidence. I, therefore, 

 regard it as a true decrease and as decidedly satisfac- 

 tory and encouraging ; for, even though the actual 

 figures may be inexact, the rate of decrease shown is 

 in all probability substantially a true one. 



" It will be noticed that the decrease on the main- 

 land has been much greater in 1907 and 1908 than in 

 1905 and 1906, while the difference between these 

 two periods is much less marked in the case of the 

 islands. 



" This decrease must be attributed to the preventive 

 measures which were begun in 1906 on the main- 

 land, and they have produced a fall in the death- 

 rate from 3,585 in 1906, to 1,419 in 1907." 



" INIaking full allowance for other causes, unless we 

 are to place no reliance at all on the Chiefs' returns, 

 the conclusion can scarcely be avoided, in my opinion, 

 that the preventive measures which have been applied 

 are producing results so satisfactory as to warrant 

 their continuance wherever practicable and their ex- 

 tension wherever this is possible." 



