DISEASE IN INDIA.
CABLE NEWS
United Press Association—By Elec* trie Telegraph—Copyright.
WORK OF MEDICAL CORPS. ENTERIC, CHOLERA AND MALARIA. Received Last Night, 8.50 o'clock. LONDON, October 4. Viscount Kitchener, addressing the Medical Schcol at the Middlesex Hospital, paid a tribute to the Medical Corp3 in India. Enteric wag, he said, yielding to improved sanitation and inoculation, which was almost universal. Enteric and cholera would shortly be totally banished from the barracks, j During the last decade, the ratio j of constantly sick, invalided, and deaths, had been reduced by 50 per cent.
Malaria.still baffled all efforts. The methods which were successful in Khartoum wero impossible in India, where the native sanitation and water supply w.ere outside British control.
There were mostly living in insanitary, overcrowded cities.
The difficulty in dealing .with them lay -in evolving methods which did not conflict with the traditions of ages.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10111, 5 October 1910, Page 5
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145DISEASE IN INDIA. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10111, 5 October 1910, Page 5
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