MOSQUITO NESTS
DISCOVERY IN ENGLAND BOMB CRATERS BLAMED [from our own correspondent] LONDON, Au&ast 22 Bomb craters caused by wartime aerial target practice are blamed for the number of mosquitoes in the Medway Valley. Following hundreds of cases of mosquito bites in Rochester and Chatham, the Ministry of Health was asked to send an expert to fiud mosquito breeding grounds. Mr. P. G. Shute, of the Govern*
ment's malaria laboratory, in his report, says he found incredible numbers of aedes detritus, or salt-water mosquitoes, breeding in Holmes Marsh, near Rochester.
The marsh is pitted with craters
filled with stagnant river water. "It is the first time that a case of this kind has been recorded in this country, and shows that many mosquito nuisances are man-made," Mr. Shute 6ays.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23143, 15 September 1938, Page 10
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