WAR AGAINST MALARIA.
EUCALYPTUS IN SWAMPS. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Monday. The important part that Australian eucalyptus plays in the stamping out of malaria was emphasised by Dr. Denis McCarthy, malariologist to the Zanzibar Government, who arrived by the Awatea to-day from Sydney on a visit to New Zealand. Dr. McCarthy is a Southlander by birth, and has been in Zanzibar for twelve years. One of the most effective ways of draining swamp land where the malariacarrying mosquito bred, he explained, was to plant it with eucalyptus.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 19, 24 January 1939, Page 9
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87WAR AGAINST MALARIA. Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 19, 24 January 1939, Page 9
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