FIGHTING DISEASE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 83, 5 October 1910, Page 7

FIGHTING DISEASE.

BRITAIN'S WORK IN INDIA. IMPROVED SANITARY METHODS. LARGE REDUCTION IN MORTALITY* By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright, LONDON, 4th October. Field-Marshal Lord Kitchener, late Commander-in-Chief of the Army in India, addressing the Medical School at the Middlesex Hospital, paid a Tvarm tribute to the work of the Medical Corps ia India. I ■ Enteric fever, he said, was yielding to improved methods of sanitation and to inoculation, which were now almost universal. Enteric would shortly join cholera in its total banishment from barracks. During the last decade the ratio of the constantly sick, the invalided, and deaths had been reduced 50 per cent. Malaria, however, still baffled the efforts'of the doctors. The methods which had proved successful at Khartoum were impossible of application in India, where the native sanitation and water-, supply were outside. British control There were 300,000,000 Indians living for the most part in insanitary and overcrowded cities, and the difficulty of dealing with them lay in evolving methods not conflicting with the traditions that had come down through the ages. YELLOW FEVER. EPIDEMIC IN WEST AFRICA. THE MOSQUITO SCOURGE. LONDON, 4th October. Sir Rubert Boyce, Professor of Pathology at the University of Liverpool, an» nounces the discovery that yellow feven is epidemic in West Africa. Hitherto if has been mistaken for malaria. The professor declared it would ba easy to rid the country of the mosquito, stegomya canopius by means of an • in* expensive system of drainage.