SPREADING OF DISEASE
DANGER FROM AEROPLANES ADVISORY COUNCIL’S REPORT. SINGAPORE, April 2. The Advisory Council of the Far Eastern Health Bureau of the League of Nations came to the conclusion that the peril of yellow fever spreading from Asia to Australia by reason of air development was not an immediate” problem, though speedier air and land transport constituted a potential risk. A previous message stated: The experts of the Ross Institute are perturbed at the risk of yellow fever being carried across the world by aeroplanes, which make it possible for infected mosquitos to he transferred from West Africa within the period of incubation, which sometimes lasts three months. Experiments have shown that 22 Pernent mosquitoes were alive after a 1250 miles journey. Sir Malcolm Watson, director of tropical hygiene, proposes that a permanent committee, including representatives of Australia and the other dominions, and of the shipping and mining companies, deal with the menace.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21920, 4 April 1933, Page 7
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