Malaria.
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New Preventive Measure.
A NEW method of fighting the malaria scourge to be adopted by the Bengal Government in the Burdwan district, where the disease is probably more pre valent than elsewhere in India, and causes hundreds of deaths every year is thus reported in “The Sydney Morning Herald.”
Methods hitherto employed aimed either at curing people already infected or ex terminating the malaria mosquito, but the new experiment aims at preventing the mosquito from being infected by en suring that persons from whom the mos quito collects malaria parasites shall themselves be non-infective.
To achieve this it is proposed to ad minister a drug called plasmoquin. which, if taken with quinine for three days, it is claimed, will render the patient non-infective to mosquitoes. The experiment, which will cost £1540 will take place this summer, when treatment centres will be opened in a selected area of Burdwan and a field staff deputed to distribute the drug.
For the purpose of assessing the ex port duty payable on copra, the assessed value per ton of copra exported from the Mandated Territory during January was declared to be £ 10/11/10.