The Archive · 1907

The Sleeping Sickness

Some anxiety is felt at a case having Jappeared in Calcutta of the dreaded sleeping sickness, which is.as yet surlrounded in mystery. The patient is \Japanese woman who had just-arrived rom Allahabad, but nothing of her antecedents is known, and so it is imnpossible to form opinions -as: to how or when the disease was contracted. The offered for: the man-ester, a further reward of 'R.100 will be given "for months later if-the Kills cease, so proving that the depredations were by one beast, which is by no means clear at present.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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