Collection 72/35 Precautions against introduction of sleeping sickness, or Trypanosomiasis, into India from East Africa: cases of Sepoy Ladha Singh and Sepoy Narayan Singh.
Reports by Brigade Surgeon Lieutenant-Colonel A Crombie and Lieutenant-Colonel E F Drake-Brockman regarding the Thirteenth International Congress of Medicine held at Paris
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pp 647-65. Reports, including summaries of the following papers: Methods of purifying water for troops on campaign (Lapasset, Schucking, Vincent) Contamination of sub-soil water by bodies of men in camps (Vincent) Dysentery and the Amoeba Coli (Fenoglio) The Etiology of Dysentery in Armies on ca...
Prevalence of the disease known as the sleeping sickness in Uganda
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pp 553-65. Correspondence and telegrams regarding the outbreak of sleeping sickness in Uganda, and the tour by Dr Hodges to ascertain the extent of the disease, and its probable causes.
pp 893-903. Government of India circulate copies [enclosed] of reports received from Uganda concerning sleeping sickness, and Dr Hodge's researches into the filaria perstans. Includes tables of mortality for districts within Myoro [Yangoma].
Prevalence of the sleeping sickness in parts of Uganda, and the probability of its conveyance to India. Illustrated reports.
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pp 117-51. Despatch from the Secretary of State, forwarding copy reports on sleeping sickness in Uganda: Detailed reports by R U Moffat, Principal Medical Officer for Uganda, and Dr Aubrey Dallas Percival Hodges, containing descriptions of the outbreak, case studies for named patients, notes o...
Adoption of preventive measures to guard against the importation of sleeping sickness
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pp 925-45. Correspondence between the Government of India, the Presidency Governments and the Government of Burma regarding sleeping sickness, the theories of Dr Crombie and Dr Hans Ziemann regarding its etiology, discussion as to whether the disease is contagious, and the possible use of inspect...
Reporting on the investigation into sleeping sickness in Uganda
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pp 185-87. Letter from M Foster, Secretary of the Royal Society, to the Superintendent of African Protectorates, Foreign Office, summarising the report of the Sleeping Sickness Commission, and requesting assistance from members of the Indian Medical Service or Royal Army Medical Corps.
Precautions against the introduction of sleeping sickness into India
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pp 319-20. Despatch by R U Moffat, Principal Medical Officer for the East Africa Protectorate, regarding investigations into sleeping sickness etiology and transmission, the difficulties in making early diagnoses, and the question as to whether routine examination of travellers would be effective...