The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-05-06
Nh CURE FOR THE
DREAD DISEASE
sipeDinq Sickness Camp in
East Africa Described by
Sir HeSkssh Bell.
PATENTS IN ALL STAGES
lady TRANSMITTED BY THE
UGANDA TsETsE FLY.

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: F,-a Roosevelt went hunting again ::
:-e.rr-Iay. and before the chase =
rss over two more big lions had =
:eurr before his gun. These ami -
: mails were encountered and killed -
q: On the tall grass =
!. Nr. Roosevelt now holds the rec =
: ord for lion killing in the protec- =
:+r-str Since Saturday of last week :.
80 total of five lions and one EOness :.
3 have been bagged by him. =
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srrr.asy p. E. A, Saturday. April
The sleeping sickness commission is
banning that Theodore Roosevelt will
nav q visit 10 the expeditions camp at
..s.a Uganda. where Sir David and
lady Bruce are in charge of the segre-
-arfor hospitals The governments of
Germany. France, Belgium. as well as
.rs government of the United Kingdom.
ore loyalty working together endeavOr-
ing tn ind Il cure or preventative for
rho sleeping sickness Altogether seven
r-rrauean doctors have succumbed TO
.rr fatal disease since the attempts to
.aua with the evil were commenced
Governor Sir Hesketh Bell in appeal
-r rn the milIiOuaires of the world and
others banevolently disposed for money
lrf-s tH enable him to purchase sIaugh-
Up of stock to crafty the one and only
.-sring of those whose suffering is so
intense. which is summed up i'm the
.n-d meat" described his latest visit
81. Oh. camp in part as follows;
Unaware Of impending Doom.
.r. patients were lodged i'm large
..i.Ie5 bandas and were divided &C
..ri.r- tJ sex and the various sta es of
-.r disease. I'm one enclosure We saw
number OF infants in whom the first
outward signs of the sCOurge were lust
appearing. Unaware of their impending
doom. she little black mites played and
rn-r5 to- their hearts content in the
--.l. OF the banana grove. and only
sim. -=ered glands at the base of their
as showed that their fate was sealed.
was sad indeed to think that i'm a
short time those merry peaIs Of laugh
Pop would gradually become more and
.0rs rare, and that all those poor little
rsft-re- IN whom the JOY of life was so
-.rm- would. after a year or two of
misery. be laid in the crowded Gene
r-E that I could just see between the
In the Second Stage.
-.. d. cow Of sheds surrounded by the
.-.aua groves which supply the food
lr The patients. we saw numbers of
-.r-r who had reached the second stage
.. f.a disease. Most of them appeared
r. aa suffering acutely. They seemed
e. ~auu the cool shade of the broad
.atr.ei roofs and preferred to sit or lie
tho full blaze of the MONDAY sun.
Even there many Of them shivered al
-'a.t .0lstanJIy. and drew about their
aealaj limbs the brown rags Of bark
10Th which partly covered them. The
.aWr features and haggaTd eyes testi-
.I rH the gaawinG pains that almost
instantly afflicted them, and the I'M
happy er5atureS appeared TO have spe-
.aI dread of being touched.
Many of them were in the stage Of
-uaI-y which has, doubtless. been re-
-.-r-.1 for the misleading name by
'.... the disease has become common
known. Unfortunately sound sleep
rarely comes to the relief Of the doomed
ones and the tOrpOr in which they lie
COMES from the constant strain Of never
easing pain. Many of them, in an
-r#aI moment. put an end to their
Bile lives. and II is a wonder that
... Ht them don't do likewise.
Horrible Suffering.
Further in. we came to those who
.e.a lu the last stages of the disease.
Lying bout on beds OF withered leaves.
'.-F had reached a degree Of emaciation
mat was horrible to see. The unhappy
creatures looked like skeletons, and
E their dOieful moaning indicated
i.- presence of life in the wTetched re-
mains. a few. in whom nature was
t---@.lus hard. had gone raving mad
aid u spite of the fact that the poor
creatures had preferred 10 have been