20 No. 96 GEOGRAPHY : UGANDA ! (

... Winds are light and variable in Buganda and Bun: yoro, though heavy squalls occur on Victoria Nyanza and Lake Albert. In the region of the White Nile and

the north -eastern plains the windsare strong and con tinuous.

( 4 ) SANITARY CONDITIONS

Plague,sleeping sickness, and small-pox are endemię in the Protectorate, Owing to drastic measures, the progress of sleeping sickness has been stopped, and the mortality from that source is now small. Plague has also diminished considerably, but it is still common in the eastern province.

Leprosy is common, especially in the districts east of Lake Kioga , and any general measure for segrega

tion has not yet proved possible. Venereal diseases are very often met with in Buganda,and are on theincrease

among the natives of the eastern districts . Spirillum fever, ankylostomiasis , bilharzia, and other parasitic diseases are frequent. Guinea -worm is found chiefly in the Nile Valley and the Rudolf province.

Europeans suffer chiefly from malaria and black water fever. Dysentery is common, and epidemics of enteric sometimes occur .

(5 ) RACE AND LANGUAGE The Uganda Protectorate is divided ethnologically between the Bantu in the south -west, and the Nilotie

negroes in the north -east. On the whole, the Victoria Nile may be taken as the dividing-line between the two races, but the shore of Victoria Nyanza across the

frontier of the East Africa Protectorate and the whole region west of Mount Elgon and south of Lake

Kioga is racially very mixed .

In addition to these two great. races, two other widely different stocks, the aboriginal-pygmy type and the Hamitic Bahima, are also found in the Protect torate .