Malaria Routed
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A MOMENTOUS stage was reached in the progress achieved by the Cyprus Medical Department, when it was an nounced that the malaria-carrying Anopheles mosquito, the greatest enemj Cyprus has ever had, has been banished from the Island. For the previous foui months no mosquitoes had been traced ir Cyprus.
Dr. Horace Shelley, Director of Medica: Services, described this achievement as “one of the most important events in th€ history of Cyprus.” The work of eradica tion was started in 1913 under Sir Ronald Ross, and the whole scheme, now com pleted, cost £220,000 —nearly 9s. per heac of the Island’s population.