ATTACK ON NEW PROBLEM

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22520, 30 September 1938, Page 11

ATTACK ON NEW PROBLEM

f' (**OM OUR OW* COJUIISBI'OFDWJ'r.) ; LONDON, August 22. 3 A"-method for the disinfpstation of I aircreut in flight, thus preventing the '* spread of diseases, has beep developed I by Imperial Airways, Ltd., according j

to an article by Dr. „F. P. Mackie, the company's medical adviser, and Mr H. S. Crabtree, of the Experimental Department, in this week's "Lancet." 'i Aircraft travel, it is stated, lias introduced a new. problem by making it possible for infected insects to be carried from one country to another, thus starting an epidemic.; ... Experiments have been made with a spray apparatus and a form of in- j secticide with deadly effect on any inJ sects. j

l ii■ H I I > "We' do not claim that we have perfected this method; but we believe that . disinfestation in flight is, for the reai * sons we have given, the method of the future for cabin type aircraft," it is r stated. ; Imperial Airways, Ltd., proposes to fit out some.of the flying-boats on the Empire routes with this insecticide apparatus, and invites local sanitary authorities to satisfy themselves that, in practice, this method results in the complete destruction of mosquitoes, | states the article