MALARIA IN CEYLON
POSITION STILL SERIOUS. RELIEF scheme in operation. British Official Wireless. • Rec. 5 p.m. Rugby, Feb. 21. The Colonial Office has received a fur- *■ ther telegram from the Governor of Ceylon regarding the recent malaria outBreak there, in which he states that the prolonged drought last year had badly affected the rice crop which was ordinarily reaped in February and March, re- • suiting in a food shortage. In many districts this was foreseen and measures taken at the end of last year so that relief works on a large scale are now in progress in all the badly affected ' areas, payments being promptly made, enabling the inhabitants to obtain food supplies. .Where sickness is still prevalent free distrjbutioji of food coQtffiucs,
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Taranaki Daily News, 23 February 1935, Page 5
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