TRYPANOSOMIASIS EXPEDITION TO THE CONGO 
3 
Place and Class of Native 
c 
1 
w 
nfected with 
nes in Peri- 
il Blood 
Number 0 
mitted to 
shown to u 
Sleeping 
Cases Ad- 
Hospital or 
as Cases of 
Sickness 
Number 
Number I 
Trypanosor 
phen 
With Try- 
panosomes 
Without 
somes 
" 
BoMA 
Hospital at Boma. Native soldiers coming 
from all parts of the Congo ... 
9* 
7 
2. 
Prisoners in Boma gaol coming from all parts 
of the Congo 
i 8 1 
0 
0 
3- 
Children of native soldiers at Boma ... 
1 9 
0 
0 
4- 
Colon)' school. Native boys from all parts 
of the Congo 
5° 
0 
0 
5- 
i. 
Native labourers and children from native 
quarter 
Matadi 
Natives collected for examination by Dr. 
Sims 
3 + 
78 
O 
I 
0 
0 
0 
0 
2. 
Children of native soldiers up to 8 years of 
age 
1 0 
0 
0 
0 
3- 
Patients at the native hospital 
22 
3 
4- 
Children at the Sansel, native quarters, up to 
I o years of age 
28 
0 
0 
0 
i. 
Cataract Region 
Carriers collected from Tumbar District 
20 
2 
0 
0 
2. 
Carriers from Lutete District 
23 
0 
0 
0 
3- 
Boys at Wathen Mission, ages up to i j 
3 5 
1 
of 
0 
4- 
Natives examined indiscriminately at two 
small villages near Lutete 
42 
2 
0 
2 
5- 
Natives coming to the mission for treatment, 
or sick natives seen in village within a twenty 
mile radius of Lutete 
79 
1 1 
10 
47 
6. 
Cases collected for us as sleeping sickness 
cases by Chef de Post at Kusu from neighbour- 
ing villages 
H 
0 
0 
'4 
* Lumbar puncture was done in six of the sleeping sickness cases. In four trypanosomes were seen in the cerebro-spinal 
fluid. One of the four never showed trypanosomes in the peripheral blood. 
-f This boy had been suffering for twenty-four days previous to our arrival at the mission from a fever which was not 
amenable to quinine. 
