Sleeping Sickness in Principe Island
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years' war against sleeping sickness in the Island of Principe, a Portuguese Island oft' the West Coast of Africa. The report has been written by Drs. da Costa, Saut Anna, dos Santos, and de A. Alvares, and has been admirably translated into English by Lieutenant-Colonel J. A. Wyllie, f.k.g.s.. of the Indian Army (retd.). The population of the Island of Principe is between 4,000 and 5,000, and in the past dozen years the deaths from sleeping sickness have been reduced from over 320 to 133 per
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دوره 51 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2016