INSECTICIDE
SPRAY FOR AEROPLANES
(By Air Mail, from "The Post's" London Representative.) LONDON, August 22. A method for the disinfesfcation of aircraft in flight, thus preventing the spread of diseases, has been developed by Imperial Airways,- according to an article by. Dr. F. P. Mackie, the company's medical adviser, and Mr. H. S. Crabtree, of the Experimental Department, in this week's "Lancet." Aircraft travel, it is stated, has introduced a new problem by makingit possible for infected insects to be carried from one country to another, thus starting an epidemic. Experiments have been made with a spray apparatus, and a form of insecticide with deadly effect on any insects. "We do not claim that we have perfected this method, but we believe that disinfestation in flight is, for the reasons we have given, the method of the future for cabin type air-! craft," it is stated. Imperial Airways, Ltd., proposes to fit out some of the flying-boats on the | Empire routes with this insecticide apparatus, and invites local sanitary authorities to satisfy themselves that, in practice, this method results in the complete destruction of mosquitoes, states the article.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 79, 30 September 1938, Page 8
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188INSECTICIDE Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 79, 30 September 1938, Page 8
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