MALARIA SCOURGE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 678, 1 December 1909, Page 8

MALARIA SCOURGE.

;:; The Muiaiia Conference, inclnding forty.dele- , : gates;;fr<>m;lll , parts of 'India, met at the Vicer: regal.iLbdge'.at'Siuila,'recently, • , . '','./. ~-.•■■■JJoro;.lliito.i.'in. ,-thi'- members, said "the" subject see'med -to. him of : .such vitalintereet'.thot local offorts_ would be more likely, to,succeed:if general-principles for combatiag malaria : were'discussed at Simla.by an 'assemblage ; ;p6sse6sing-full^knowledge,of all'.iooal Iconditaons-; ;•;: It was ;desirable. that,, the Iooal" ,authqri(aos-should. acoept a joint plan of. campaign,', and'iv-ith this in view he had convened the Imperial.C.onforence;, Malaria was: no new ailnienf/and'the. cruel epidemic which ■had 'raged in'.'the"United : Province? of tho Punjab 'lasfi year'had ..impressed, upon'public opinion the,-nmgintudo! /of -the.:question the . Govern-! roent'was-called ippn to deal! with. The death? from-ffever'"..in India.during-the last ten'yeara, .averaged nearly, four.and a half.millions:', Last ■-year'" the'deaths 1 were ■one.', million .over: the to be due to malaria. -It was ;appal!mg.to;thinlc of tho. suffering and.economic: loss, "such- conditions implied. .Scientists assured.-, them tUat much of this. suffering 'Was and ..the chief problem! before the colrferehoe; w&j to; discover means ■to confirm 'this .assurance. 'Lord .Minto' gratefully '.acknowledged'the debt-of .gratitude owing to recent disooveries, \ and .referred '.to the work of Sir Patrick,Manson' and;tlie brilliant discovery of Major .Ross.-.,Tho extermination of the mosquito'and the .question of the quinine remedy, .'balled'..for: careful and searching inquiry. •Lord 'Minto. trusted that the result:, of 'the tioris /would,•confer, a., great boon- .upon .the people ''of'lndia,'and,.though' the ■ campaign would bo.necessarily Ion? and hard fought, ho opened .the;.conference, in the;firm belief that ~it,-would:be. eventually crowned: with-success.