Zanzibar in Contemporary Times; a Short History of the Southern East in the Nineteenth Century
Zanzibar in Contemporary Times; a Short History of the Southern East in the Nineteenth Century
Robert Nunez Lyne
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In July, 1901, I had occasion to go to Pemba, and returning in ten days I found one of the men dead from blackwater fever, and the other in hospital from the same disease. They had lived in the same house for months and were struck down within half an hour of each other. I had left both in excellent spirits, and apparently in fairly good health, though I recalled after- wards that one at any rate had been for some time subject to slight attacks of fever, a rise in temperature of only a degree o...r two, for which he did not think it necessary to 278 ZANZIBAR IN CONTEMPORARY TIMES. lay up, and that he used to get up early in the mornings and take strong doses of quinine. But these men had been in the habit of sitting out in the open air after sunset, and enjoying a cool pipe in their shirtsleeves, aftfer a hot walk round the plantations. Dysentery is now seldom contracted in Zanzibar, thanks to the excellent water supply and the soda-water factories that have been established. Small-pox is endemic among the natives, and sometimes takes an epidemic form.
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