THE MALARIA SCOURGE.
(United Press Association. —Copyright.)
CALCUTTA, October 13. A Malaria Conference is sitting at Simla, which is attended by forty delegates from all parts of India.
Earl Minto, the Viceroy, is preisding. In opening the Conference he stated that the malarial fever deaths in India during the last decade had average nearly four and a half millions annually. Last year there, were five and a half million deaths, owing to the epidemic in the United Provinces and the Punjab. Mosquito extermination was largely the problem facing administrators, and this and the quinine remedy were the chief subjects for the Conference's discussion.
Colonel Leslie, Indian Sanitary Commissioner, suggested special provincial agencies to distribute quinine.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12345, 15 October 1909, Page 7
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