Fighting Filaria On
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Mangaia
From Our Mangaia Correspondent THE ever-present beef-can, once seen around local settlements in its hundreds, and left to rust, or be trodden into the soft ground after rain, is to-day no longer a feature of the Mangaian native village.
These empty tins, till they rusted too completely to hold water, were formerly a very convenient breeding-place for the filaria mosquitoes that are responsible for the attacks of chills and fever that many Mangaians suffer after a sudden change of weather. Now the Resident Agent, Major W. H. Ryan, has instituted a system of trucking away the accumulated cans at intervals, this work being done by the Mosquito Control boys who were trained at Rarotonga last year.
The tins are removed to a distant dump, flattened, and buried, thus rendering them harmless.