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Article: Lords of the fly: colonial visions and revision of African sleeping-sickness environments on Ugandan Lake Victoria, 1906-61.
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- Africa
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- January 1, 1997
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District Commissioner. I believe that their numbers have been much exaggerated, and that no fear need be entertained that the cost of buying flies will amount to a very large sum. We might begin by offering a shell apiece. At that rate ... an expenditure of 20 Pounds should ensure the destruction of 15,000 flies. I am inclined to doubt that there are that number in existence in our infected districts.
Dr Hodges. I am exceedingly sorry to differ from H.E. both on the efficacy and the utility of the plan here considered. In reality, the experiment has already been tried at Entebbe. During about two years from four to six fly-boys were employed by the Sleeping Sickness ...