Manchester Memoirs, Vol. xliii. ( 1 899), No. 6. 



VI. The Plague in Uganda. 



By the RIGHT Rev. Bishop Hanlon, Uganda. 



\Communicated by Alexander ITodgkinsoti, M.B.] 



Received and read February 21st, i8gg. 



Having seen in the English papers of last July, 

 notices of Dr. Koch's discourse on the 'Plague in Uganda,' 

 I would remark on this point that Dr. Koch never came 

 up the lake at all, although I believe he did send a man 

 up. The only plague he can refer to is what is known 

 here as " Kaumpuli," which I have previously described 

 in my letters as akin to the black plague which once 

 scourged London. It begins suddenly, there is high 

 fever, and a swelling, usually under the arm-pit. Like 

 many plagues, it has both a mild and virulent form. ' 

 The former is not attended with much fever, the 

 swelling moves about the body from place to place, and, 

 should it get near the heart or into the throat, death may 

 result. In the latter form the swelling seems stationary, 

 either under the arm-pit or in the fork of the legs ; if the 

 patient be not speedily attended to, a fatal termination 

 results, as often happens to sufferers before their case is 

 known to a European. This form is considered very 

 infectious ; the natives shun the sick person and will 

 on no account bury those who die of this form of 

 " Kaumpuli " ; they even remove from the neighbourhood 

 of the hut where the person died. 



The French Fathers think that one of their mis- 

 sionaries died of it — years before our arrival — after 



June 6th, i8gg. 



