AMERICAN CABLE NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 June 1926, Page 3

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS.

[“ Sydney Sun ” Cables.]

DENGUE FEVER GERM

WASHINGTON, May J!

The Surgeon-General ~f tlie Army Major General Ireland, lias prepared a report stating that striking progress in stamping out the. dengue fever through the voluntary submission of seventy-five American soldiers in the Philippines to inoculation tests, has been achieved, the work done by the Army Medical Research Board in the islands resulting in the discovery that the same mosquito, which carried yellow fever, is also a spreader of den- ■' gtie. Preventive measures, based on research work, were inaugurated among the garrisons in the I’ihilippines a year ago and the reports reaching General Ireland show the number of dengue eases reduced from eighty soldiers in every thousand in 1924, to less than twenty per tlioirtmd this year. The commanding general in the island issued an order pointing out that human subjects were considered essential by the Research Board and that the discomfort and suffering involved was beyond normal requirements of duty. Five yours ago dengue fever swept the American southern states ,frorn Texas to Georgia, two millions cases being reported. BEER SELLING. WASHINGTON, May 1. A beer selling incident in connection with the visit of the German warship Hamburg to San Pedro, California, was apparently closed, when thb German Embassy to-day advised the authorities that two members or • the crew responsible for the sale and | been punished. I