MOSQUITOES IN ITALY
A description of the stringent precautions necessary against malariacarrying mosquitoes of Italy is given in a letter recently received from an Auckland soldier with the 2nd N.Z.E.F. “We take anti-malaria tablets every day,” be writes, “and after five in the evening we roll our shirt slebves down and wear long trousers with gaiters, or tucked into our boot tops. Faces and hands are smeared with a special ointment.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25456, 10 February 1944, Page 6
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71MOSQUITOES IN ITALY Otago Daily Times, Issue 25456, 10 February 1944, Page 6
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