MALARIA FEAR
MOSQUITOES IN SYDNEY Speakers at a health conference at Sydney recently gave a warning that the climate of Sydney was favourable for an outbreak of tropical diseases, if mosquitoes were not kept under control during a wet summer. A Commonwealth medical officer tn New Guinea, Dr. Delande, said that the fact that Sydney had not so far suffered an outbreak of malaria, was no basis for the feeling that it was immune. There was nothing to suggest that the malarial mosquito should not breed in Sydney, when weather conditions approached the tropical. The director of the School of Tropical Medicine, Prof. Harvey Sutton, said that nobody could explain why the mosquito carrying malaria had not penetrated farther south than about Grafton. However, one or two cases of malaria have been reported among people who had not been outside Sydney. He thought it would be wise for all municipalities to take every step possible to control the mosquito menace.
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 52, Issue 3750, 1 May 1936, Page 12
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