WAR ON MOSQUITO.

Grey River Argus, 28 February 1927, Page 5

WAR ON MOSQUITO.

THE MALARIA MENACE. A Long Job. (Received February 27 at 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, February 26. Sir Donald Ross has just returned from a four thousand miles’ tour of India and Malaya. Nevertheless he was (ii his laboratory yesterday planning a new mass attack on mosquitoes. He raid: “The damage done by the mosquito costs millions annually, so it is time the Empire took an intelligent interest in the work of its prevention. It takes a quarter of a century for rhe public mind to grasp the significance oi a new discovery, and although we- aye now beginning to feel the benefit of the anti-malaria campaign, the task will not be completed until the end of this century. The efforts to check malaria are frequently undone by the neighbour who lets the mosquito breed at will, so I am preparing a scheme for the establishment of Malaria Boards fo supervise and direct the work.