Host and distribution data are presented for 1573 male and 439 female H. paraleachi collected from 158 hosts representing at least 23 mammalian species. Specimens were collected over a wide ecological range in Africa (19 countries) from sea level to 2640 m altitude, 15°W to 45°E and 20°N to 20°S....

The programme of investigation which has been maintained at Kaduna and the Laboratories at Vom has continued to cover a range of investigations on human and animal trypanosomiasis. The deep-freezing of samples during field surveys may obviate the need for the transport of large numbers of rats and...

The natural hosts of Glossina were determined by the identification of 1, 759 blood-meals. The origins of the meals were identified by the precipitin and agglutination-inhibition tests. G. palpalis fed largely on man and reptiles but had a wide range of hosts. It is an important vector of sleeping...

The work covered by this report is described under four main headings: -rinderpest research by R. L. CORNELL and S. A. EVANS; research on trypanosomiasis by H. E. HORNBY; treatment of goat scab and attempts to transmit trypanosomiasis by flies other than tsetse, by W. H. W. BAIRD and some problems...

Examinations of Various Animals. " The routine blood examinations of the animals brought to the slaughter-houses was discontinued in 1916, owing to the reduction of the Stan' occasioned by the continuation of the war. No returns have therefore been made of the parasitic infections occurring in the...

The existence of the disease was first suspected in 1906, and the first case diagnosed by the discovery of the trypanosomes was in 1912.
Clinically the disease is much milder than that occurring in the Congo and Uganda. A brief description of the physical and meteorological conditions of the...