Show r FLY BRINGS DEATH TO MANY Prof litif Koch on un I Sleeping Sickness In tim II Equatorial FJ l Africa l Berlin March 1 16 ProC Prof Robert Io Coch Kouli h lectured to today ay on the sleeping sickness which he investigated l Ce several months In imi Equatorial Africa luring during the year ear 1003 Emperor Willam Will Will- lam laun am and a n distinguished company were present The malad malady said the professor had been known on ii the thc cst coast o o Africa since the time he beginning of the last century an and It haul had spread to the Ihu north shore shome hole of or the Victoria Nyanza an and ind threatened German Africa Ilca Probably Probably Probably ably persons had died letI from Crom the dl ca e He lie had hall found whole villages vill viii- vf- vf ages on the shores of VictorIa Nyanza to be empty and the populations o of some ome groups group's of or Islands had died diedo lcd o to to othe the last soul soul The infection was spread from human to hum human n by the thu In of or 1 fly nv tho tl glom somewhat larger than an ami ordinary fly tb A ue lt poison the usual health for Cor s several days das and amid then tho the SUr sufferer suffer sUffer- l'- l' er cr was attacked with fever bc became io Incoherent the time Inn wore ure swollen the patient patent became enfeebled anti and eventually c was wa seized with wih the sleep mania Professor Koch I knew of or no remedy remely for this disease but hoped the time Infection might be bo ended b by the extermination of the insect which propagated slowly b by burning the undergrowth at its Is favorite home Tho The professor will vIll wi return to Africa shortly shorty and continue hl his studies of or tropical diseases discuses |