WAR ON MOSQUITOES

Marlborough Express, Volume LX, Issue 230, 29 September 1926, Page 10

WAR ON MOSQUITOES

CAMPAIGN IN ITALY. CTNEMA'S IMPORTANT PART. Whjerever» wai has been waged scientifica.lly against the mosquito malaria has very largely, if, inded, not entirely, disappeared. Italy. ravaged by tlie disease lroni very early times, has faced tlie problem bodly and has not only taken active steps to stamp out the mosquito pest, but has also conducted a eampaign oi: intensive propagaaida. In this the cinema has played an imiportant part, and .a nlm taken at the instance of the Italian Government was, by request of the J .on dori School of Hygiene and Trqpical Aliedicine!, sliown reeently in lyndon. The old idea that malaria was due to bacl .air arising from bad water had, the lectnrer explained, foroed people to run awny from malarial zones. and the eonsequent negleet made local condi lions infhiitely worsa. Ih the tilm depopulated areas were Jiown, are^s from which the people had lled before the scourge. And there were also depicted higlily cultivated regions whero war against tlie mosquito had been sucoessful and whore the soil was once more tilled by a heaithy and prosperous jiaasantry, In a very clear manner the film denionstrated the development of the mosquito and also of the m'alaria germ, and the various steps, sucli as draining marcli-lands and spraying, taken toi exterminate the mosquito.