Quarterly report on the progress of segregation camps and medical treatment of sleeping sickness in Uganda. For the quarter December 1st, 1907-February 29th, 1908 / A. C. H. Gray. With an introduction by A. D. P. Hodges.

  • Hodges, A. D. P.
Date:
1908
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Credit: Quarterly report on the progress of segregation camps and medical treatment of sleeping sickness in Uganda. For the quarter December 1st, 1907-February 29th, 1908 / A. C. H. Gray. With an introduction by A. D. P. Hodges. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.

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    ave markedly superior to those from other camps, I would suggest that it he left off save in a few cases. “ For the first three months my results were and again tliis time are very good, but they seem to fall off considerably during the next quarter, so I doubt if in the end the results are a bit better than Atoxyl alone (See tables VII & XXVI). In my previous reports on these 1,135 people certain patients were noted as presenting symptoms which were probably due to the Atoxyl with which they had been treated. These symptoms were giddiness, colic and diarrhoea, dimness of vision and blindness, vomiting, paresis of lower extremities, etc. The giddiness, colic and diarrhoea or vomiting in no case per.sisted. Of the 33 cases of dimness of vision reported three months ago, 5 are dead, 11 have recovered, 6 are blind, and 11 remain in the same state. Of the 14 totcdly Mind cases reported three months ago, 4 are dead ; tlie power of vision has not returned to any of the remainder. The present state of those patients admitted to our Sleeping Sickness Camps between December 1, 1906, and Xovember 30, 1907, has now been described. TABLE XVII. From November 30, 1907, fo February 29, 1908, 1,712 Patients have been admitted to our Segregation Camps, as follows :— Camp. Admissions during the month of Totals. December, 1907. Januarv, 1908.* February, 1908. * Busiro 53 41 50 144 Kyagwe .. .. 86 75 31 192 Usoga 221 207 110 538 Sesse.. 219 369 250 838 Total 579 692 441 1,712 * Dr. Tan Someren was writing of the treatment by Atoxyl and Mercury given con- currently. (Ed.)