Editorial Note.

This contribution, and the one entitled “Why Is There No Malaria in Fiji?”, published in December, by Mr. W. J.

Tully, emphasise the apparent inability of the governing authorities in the Pacific Islands to make any concerted move for the public good—in connection with health or anything else. Mr. Tully

has indicated several ways in which war might be waged on malaria.

In the above letter, Mr. Tully refers to a most interesting thing—the exist ence of a water beetle which destroys mosquito larvae. It is only by ento mological methods—by using one insect to destroy another—that such diseases as malaria and yellow fever —ever will be controlled in the Pacific; and it would be so easy, by consultation and united effort, to test out these things. Yet the years pass, politicians and ex-politicians play and posture in the seats of the mighty, and nothing is done.