CEYLON'S SCOURGE
HOW MULTITUDES PERISHED To make the tropics healthy is the chief aim of the Ross Institute. It is an object upon which trade and the lives and happiness of multitudes of people depend. " Few of us realise that the great dependency of Ceylon lost between October, 1934, and May, 1935, over 100,000 lives from malaria. A million and a-half people contracted the disease, which cost £350,000 in direct expenditure and an enormous sum indirectly. Tho afflicted area measured 5800 square miles, with a population of over three millions. This happened in what was considered a healthy part of tho island, in tho rest of Ceylon, nearly 20,000 square miles, tho population is under three millions, and much of it is intensely malarious. Ceylon stands in danger of a recurrence of such an immense tragedy. The Boss Institute holds that the island authorities have much to learn from Malaya., where malaria control has been made effective.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22504, 22 August 1936, Page 5 (Supplement)
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157CEYLON'S SCOURGE New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22504, 22 August 1936, Page 5 (Supplement)
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