S-W Pacific
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Malaria is Spreading in S-W Pacific
WHEN Dr. R. H. Black of the Sydney School of Tropical Medi cine returned to Sydney in early July after a 4-months survey of malaria incidence in the S-W Pacific islands, he said that the disease had spread in the last decade.
He put the spread down to the fact that many isolated communities that had anopheles mosquitoes but had been free from the disease, had been contacting areas where the disease was rampant and taking it back home with them.
He said that to treat the disease
as it occurred was not enough and that governments would have to be prepared to undertake wholesale schemes of mosquito control work.
Dr. Black made his survey for the South Pacific Commission.
With the comparatively low price offering for local copra not much is coming to hand for shipment from Santo, New Hebrides. The Italian copra ship Orizia, which usually stays weeks in Santo to load, stayed only a few days on her last voyage. (New Hebrides copra goes to Continental buyers—planters are not covered by any long-term selling agreement).