Editing Lado Enclave (section)

==Demographics==

===Health===

[[File:VCHarrySherwoodRanken.jpg|thumb|right|Captain Harry Ranken was posted to the Lado Enclave in 1911 and 1914]] 
[[Tsetse fly|Tsetse flies]] were common in the enclave and [[African trypanosomiasis]] (also known as sleeping sickness), the medical condition that can occur as a result of a tsetse fly bite, led to a number of fatal cases recorded in the enclave.<ref>Gleichen, p. 159.</ref>

[[Malaria]] was the most common disease in the region, with about 80 per cent of the sickness in the neighboring Bahr El Ghazal due to malaria.<ref>Gleichen, p. 157.</ref> Those suffering from malaria also faced [[Blackwater fever]],<ref>Gleichen, p. 167.</ref> whereby red blood cells burst in the bloodstream, releasing hemoglobin directly into the blood vessels and into the urine, frequently leading to kidney failure.

Captain [[Harry Ranken]], who would later be awarded the [[Victoria Cross]] for gallantry in [[World War I]], was posted to the enclave in 1911 and 1914 as a member of the Sudan Sleeping Sickness Commission, where he was based in Yei and researched methods of treatment for sleeping sickness and [[yaws]].<ref name=ranken>"The Late Captain R.S. Ranken, V.C.", ''[[The British Medical Journal]]'', Vol. 2, No. 2815, 12 December 1914, p. 1049.</ref> He was due to return to the enclave in 1915 to complete his research but died from shrapnel wounds in France while serving on the front line.<ref name=ranken/>

===Weather===

The seasons in the Lado Enclave were similar to neighboring regions of East Africa, whereby there were two seasons, with the dry season occurring from December to February and the wet season from March to November, although daily rain storms usually did not occur until June.<ref name=g147>Gleichen, p. 147.</ref>

The temperature was comparatively cool, and the temperature was said to "very seldom rise" to {{convert|100|F}}.<ref name=g147/>