Sir Henry Hesketh Bell, Governor of the Uganda Protectorate, claims to have sleeping sickness under control in the region under his supervision. This feat was not accomplished, however, by any successful medical treatment. Professor Koch's work seems to have been unavailing, so far as finding any really curative method against the disease. The success was obtained by the most drastic measures. For several hundred miles along the shore of Lake Victoria, a strip two miles in width has been depopulated by order and the inhabitants removed inland. This was done by cooperation with the native chiefs, and the only people who remain within reach of the Glossina carrying the disease are the dwellers on a few islands from which it was not practicable to remove them. The mortality, which had ranged from 20,000 to 30,000 a year in the protectorate, fell during 1908 to less than 2,000, and the deaths