Uganda, Oct. 8 -- The Uganda Protectorate was created amid British nationals' protests because of the possible cost of its maintenance. The success of the new protectorate would be based on its ability to finance its administration. The financing was tied to the readily available labour force, and any threat to this labour force was going to be a threat to the survival of the protectorate.
Despite the early epidemics, it was not until 1924 when the British faced a real threat to the future of the colony. For the first time they recorded more deaths than births in Uganda.
Of the earlier epidemics such as cholera, sleeping sickness and bubonic plague, even civil wars, none slowed down birth rates. In 1924, the colonial administrators and mi...