By Maryinez Lyons
The Belgians in general talked about their colonisation of the Congo as a 'civilising mission', and lots of appeared the advent of western bio-medicine as a primary characteristic in their 'gift' to Africans. via 1930, although, it used to be transparent that a few positive aspects in their 'civilising challenge' have been in reality heavily hooked up to the terrible future health of the various Congolese. The Europeans had certainly introduced clinical enquiry and western bio-medicine; yet they'd additionally brought a harsh, repressive political approach which, coupled with a ruthlessly exploitative financial system, resulted in the creation of latest illnesses whereas already-existing ailments have been exacerbated and unfold. Tropical, or 'colonial', drugs used to be a brand new box on the flip of the century, associated heavily either to ecu expansionism and human trypanosomiasis, or drowsing affliction. In 1901 a devastating epidemic had erupted in Uganda, killing good over 250,000 humans.
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Another eyewitness reported in 1902 that the administrator of the post of Dufile in the Lado enclave always kept 50 of his 250 soldiers 'out looking for food and/or porters'. 30 Another eyewitness in the north, J. C. McLaren, a representative of the East Africa Trading Company, reported in 1905 the widespread Congo State practice of commandeering food supplies from local populations without payment. People not only had to give up vital food supplies, they were forced themselves to carry the provisions on their backs to the state posts and camps.
By 1919, Kilo mines operated over 160 sites and employed over 5,000 people while Moto employed 6,851. 11 The statistics shown in Table 2 are derived from the annual reports of the Kilo-Moto mine management for the years 1921—30. While the figures show the numbers of men employed full-time at each of the two mine centres, they do not represent other substantial categories of workers, namely part-time men, all women, and children. Following these 'official' statistics, I have included the figures given for one year, 1919, by Charles Scheyvaerts, the special investigator who between October 1918 and January 1919 inspected the reportedly atrocious conditions at the mines.
Rubber tax and sleeping sickness Because of war demands, the government applied pressure upon territorial staff to increase the collection of rubber in their districts. The war ended the slump in the world market of 1913-14 and by 1915 world demand was again high and the British particularly needed rubber from the Belgian Congo. For instance, on 13 July 1915 the vice governor of Province Orientale, Malfeyt, instructed all his administrators that Le moment est. . favorable pour ramener les indigenes a la recolte de la gomme .
