“The best way to deal with mosquitoes and sandflies is to exclude them from your tent with netting, and when in the open to use the formula used by members of the Entomological Section of the British Museum when collecting specimens in tropical countries,” says the summer precautions statement of the Medical Officer of Health, Dr. T. Fletcher Telford. The formula is for a mixture of equal parts of oil of citronella and oil of eucalyptus, to which two drops of liquid carbolic acid are added. This, smeared on the hands and face, will keep them away, but may require occasional renewal. Care should be taken not to let this mixture get into the margins of the eyes,” Dr. i’elford said.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 December 1938, Page 7
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