Reports of the trypanosomiasis expedition to the Congo, 1903-1904 of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and Medical Parasitology / J. Everett Dutton, John L. Todd and Cuthbert Christy; with a comparison of the trypanosomes of Uganda and the Congo Free State / by H. Wolferstan Thomas and Stanley F. Linton; and supplementary notes on the tsetse-flies (genus 'Glossina', Wiedemann) / by Ernest E. Austen. Bound together with.

  • Dutton, Joseph Everett, 1877-1905.
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1904-1905
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Credit: Reports of the trypanosomiasis expedition to the Congo, 1903-1904 of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and Medical Parasitology / J. Everett Dutton, John L. Todd and Cuthbert Christy; with a comparison of the trypanosomes of Uganda and the Congo Free State / by H. Wolferstan Thomas and Stanley F. Linton; and supplementary notes on the tsetse-flies (genus 'Glossina', Wiedemann) / by Ernest E. Austen. Bound together with. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    REPORT ON THE SANITATION AND ANTI-MALARIAL MEASURES IN PRACTICE IN BAT HURST CONAKRY AND FREETOWN THE GAMBIA Bathurst MEMOIR X, published by the School in 1903, consists of ;i report ot the Expedition ot 1902 to the Gambia, in which Dr. Dutton describes in detail the topography, climate, and health problems of Bathurst, thus rendering it unnecessary for lis to go over the ground so carefully covered by him. We will con- fine ourselves to those features of interest, from a sanitary point of view, which appeared to us worthy of note and useful in comparing the means adopted for the preservation of health in the three coast towns which we visited, namely, Bathurst, Conakry, and Freetown. Bathurst is well laid out, there is an extensive sea front, and the streets are for the most part broad, except in the back of the town in the native quarter where many of the streets are narrow. The population consists ot about eight thousand natives and one hundred and five Europeans. The soil is porous and sandy and, therefore, water does not tend to remain upon the surface, and drying after ram is in consequence rapid. But at the same time, as so often happens, the sub-soil water comes to within some eight feet of the surface ; a well is most easily scooped out in the ground, and in certain places the town is below sea-level—this of course together with the uniform flatness ot Bathurst complicates drainage. There is not much vegetation 111 the town of Bathurst, and the native compounds are for the most part free from bush or grass. Grass and weeds, it is true, are present in most of the streets, but there they bind the loose soil and help to maintain the sloping banks ot the central street drain ; they become a great disadvantage, however, when they grow long and impede the water in the drains or make pools where mosquito larvae breed. European Quarters. -The houses of the Europeans and the public buildings are close to the sea front, and there is no undue overcrowding amongst them. The older houses are built of stone and the rooms in them are large, airy, and cool ; the new houses are built on the bungalow plan and are excellent. There is no definite separation ot the European houses from those of the natives, the latter often come close up to the former, only the European houses have the advantage ot an open sea front, c