He was concerned that the slum-like Cité Indigène was too close to the European town, and potentially a source of disease.
He proposed four related policies for African townships: they should be separated from the European quarters by a "neutral zone"; sanitation should be provided for; they should be compact rather than fragmented; and they should adhere to standard construction approaches.
[2] Wauters was named Commissaire général assistant to the governor of the province of Congo-Kasaï on 1 April 1930.
Due to disturbances among the African population, Wauters asked for reinforcements and changed the stature of the Kikwit and Kandale territories from Occupation to Police Operation.
[6] In 1949 Wauters published a 384-page book L'ésotérie des Noirs dévoilée about the Bukishi of the Basonge people living along the Lomami River.