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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 280, 20 August 1921, Page 6

Au outbreak of malignant malaria of unusual severity hus added to the troubles of the Northern Territory, and is puzzling tho medical authorities (says the “Melbourne Age”). According to reports received by tho Department of Homo and Territories, the results have already been serious. In tho last three or four months eight deaths have occurred, and there are nineteen patients ‘under treatment in the Darwin Hospital. Further cases are reported from the southern parts of the Territory, infectious having occurred over a wide area. Tho local authorities have succeeded in tracing tho carrier, whose duties have recently taken him to many stations. The task now confronting tho Health Department is to ascertain tho typo of mosquito which is spreading the disease, and, if possible, discover tho breedinggrounds, in tiio hope of eradicating them. For , this, purpose Dr. Cumpston, Federal Director of Public Health, has instructed Mr. E. F. Hill, an expert officer attached to tho Townsville bureau of tropical medicines, to go Io the Territory and open an investigation. Dr. Blumer, tho quarantine officer at Durwin, is also to take part in tho campaign agalnqt the disease in the interior.