PLASTIC EYES

Evening Star, Issue 25325, 6 November 1944, Page 4

PLASTIC EYES

ISSUED TO AMERICAN FORCES ONE FOR ACUTE HANGOVER Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright (Ilec. 10 a.m.) NEW YORK, Nov. 5. The incidence of malaria in tho United States army lias been reduced 75 per cent, since the beginning of tho war. The death rate from all diseases is the lowest ever recorded, and is only 5 per cent, of the rate of the first world war. This was revealed by the army aurgeon general, Major-general Norman Kirk, at a conference of military surgeons. The death rate from malaria is now one-hundredth of 1 per cent. The drastic reduction in malaria, formerly one of the most serious diseases menacing the army, resulted from proper discipline and control measures—the use of repellants, the wearing of proper clothing at night time, the use of stabrin as a suppressive, and the use of D.D.T. insecticide, also draining, filling, and oiling procedures by control units.

Other experts revealed that the army and navy medical corps had each developed an artificial plastic eye, which moves in co-ordination with the natural eye and is almost indistinguishable from it. The navy issues plastic eyes in sets of three, one for day-time wear, another with a smaller pupil for night time, and a third, slightly glazed and bloodshot, for periods of acute hangover.