RATS AND MOSQUITOES
PREVENTION OF DISEASE Action in the Whangarei Borough against rats and mosquitoes was asked of the Whangarei Borough Council by the medical officer of health, who stated that the question of control had assumed much greater importance since the war extended to the Pacific. The possibility of aeroplanes or ships bringing infected mosquitoes from the Pacific islands and of ships bringing infected rats could not be ignored. The reduction of the native mosquito and rat population and the removal of breeding places would help considerably in preventing the spread of such diseases as plague and malaria if they were introduced.
It was decided that the sanitary inspector should confer with the medical officer of health to ascertain what steps the department proposed the councii should take.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/GISH19430717.2.64
Bibliographic details
Gisborne Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21149, 17 July 1943, Page 4
Word Count
129RATS AND MOSQUITOES Gisborne Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21149, 17 July 1943, Page 4
Using This Item
The Gisborne Herald Company is the copyright owner for the Gisborne Herald. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Gisborne Herald Company. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in