The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-16

sense of undefnable oppression cut will not heal
scratch testers In the third year of residence
man feels perfectly well; the next for no apparent
cause he Is PROSTATE with malaria and with malaria
third or fourth attack to blackwater fever
SO far as human force is concerned. the British
lcngc. No can Withstand it, But a new opponent
has appeared and will not be denied. Uganda is de-
arrival Of the white and the increased movement
and activity which his presence has engeudered have
their powers of evil,
The dreaded spirilIum tick has begun to ufcst the
roads like tiny footpad and scarcely any precau-
tIoGs avail with certainty against him, This tick is
dirty ,coloed creature, the size aud shape of
he does not contract the spirillum him
sons Bv a0G pecaT nj @fns to- "hGr of per-
tins power IS exercised not by bim. but by his de
scendauts who numbered in hundreds SO the
poison spreads in incalculablc progression.
Although this fever is not fatal, it is exceptionally
painful IN It's course and distressing in IFS
sye attacks OF fever IN which the temperature of The
the eyes and hearing arc temporarily affected by
kind of facial paralysis
Road after road has been declared infected bv this
scourge and officer after officer struck down as he
moves on duty from place to place, The only sure
grass hus and camping grounds and the erection along
the roads Of regular system of stonebuiIt properly
traveller may take refuge from the lurking peril
Terrible Shadow Over Uganda.
But far more terrible shadow darEcus the Ugan
da Protect orate. In July, 1901, doctor Of tine
Church Missionary society hospital Kampala the
old capital of Uganda, noticed eight of a mys-
terious disease. Six months later he reported that
over 200 natives had died of it in The island of Blu
YUMA IN Lake Victoria Nyanza and that thousands
appeared to be infected
The pestilence swiftly spread through all the dis
trlGts OF the lake shore and the mortality was APP
paillng No one could tell where it had come from
or what 1T was caused by. 1t resisted every kind of
treatment and appeared TO be universally fatal. Sci
enflhc inquiries OF various kinds were Immediately set
on foot, but for long time results obtained
and meanwhile the disease ran along the coasts and
'R1s M b GI the dS STsn d as so9 IKE 1 fire in high
trypanos9miasIs, or sleeping sickness as it has
come TO be called, numbered over 10000, II WIS still.
spreading rapidly upon all sides and elne what
ffes soeed TO I or had
districts affected was doomed
On April 2s, 1908 Col, Bruce, whose services had
sickness announced that he considered the disease
TO be due to kind of trypanosome, conveyed from ono
fly called Glossina pal pals His theory strongly
supported by the fact that the disease appeared TO
fly belt also could be defined with precision and was
rarely found to extend more than mile two from
The, news, tltat Europeans could not longer CON
slder themselves immune from infection caused. as
community. Nearly everybody had been bitten by
Species when actually 'I neefe1 by the
IN suspense Moreover, tsctsn flies abounded in such
numbers all parts of the lake shore that their
wholesale destruction seemed quite impossible What
thcn7
Two Hundred Thousand Victims.
For d biihe No bruce discovery Almost paralNIcd
all preventive and restrictive measure The scourgc
fell unchecked, By the end of 1908 the reported
deaths numbered 10000 and the lake shores were
becoming fast dcpopulated Whole villages
petey cxtermlnated and great tracts in Usoga Ito
the east of uganda), which had formerly been famed
for their high state of cultivation reapsed into for
apathy of tho survivors permitted sudden increase
in the number of leopards, and these fierce animals
preyed with daring and impunity upon the living,
the dying and the dead.
Further Investigations. which were anyiously
pushed in many directions, revealed the existence
of the tsese fly widespread In the into
rior of Usoga the banks Of many rivers in swamps
the shores Of the Albert lake and Lake Albert
Edward, these swarming emissaries of death were
needed to arm them with their fatal power was the
The Albert shores and several parts of the Upper
Nile soon became the centers of pestilence By the
end of 1905 considerably than 100000 persons
had perisbed in the plague stricken regions, out of a
population in those regions which could not have ex-
cceded 100000.
Any decrease in the mortality in any district up