REDUCING MALARIA
SUCCESSFUL CAMPAIGN IN NEW GUINEA.
(Special Australian Correspondent.) SYDNEY, April 25.
Medical officers serving with the Allied forces in New Guinea have been conducting a campaign to reduce the incidence of malaria among the troops. Particular success has been gained at Milne Bay, where the disease has been reduced to 14 per cent of the figures of three months ago. A smaller percentage of troops now suffers from malaria in the Milne Bay area than in any other malarial region. Three months ago Milne Bay was notorious for malaria and its associate blackwater fever. The anti-malarial campaign was fought with the simplest weapons—insect, spray, nets, quinine, drainage and discipline. Recently there have been very few deaths from malaria. Under 50 cases a 1000 is regarded as good control in malarial territory.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 April 1943, Page 2
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