Again Stressed

Bushing Burden

Malaria Menace

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Again Stressed

USTRALIA had a moral obliga i tion to develop the indigenous peoples of Papua and New linea, and one of the best ways do this was to lift the crushing rden of malaria from them, said Carl Gunther, a Sydney re rch worker, at the Australasian dical Congress in August, dr. Gunther said that the Terri y understood the problem, but stralia, which held the purse ings, did not.

Ee said that malaria for countless terations had been the main tor holding the New Guinea pie back from the considerable ree of development of which y were capable. •he only method of widespread trol of malaria which appeared ly to succeed was the spraying houses and living areas. [r. Gunther said this was simple [ cheap, but to establish it Dughout the Territory would be lard and long job. A continual ply of funds would have to be ranteed before the work could started properly. [r. Gunther told the Congress t if the scheme were properly •ied out, it might be possible to in producing, after ten years, a generation of people who would e more vigour, a greater capacity development, and a longer ex ;ation of life. e added that all malaria among opeans in the Territory was due carelessness or stupidity. Not e than 20 pc of the Euro i houses were screened with quito-proof wires and only 5 pc he dwellings were sprayed. b estimated that not more than e-quarters of the European ilation of the Territory took -malarial drugs in regular and cient doses.