INDIA.
CONFERENCE TO COMBAT AIALARIA.
United Press Association —Copyright. CALCUTTA, October 13. A conference to consider methods of combatting with malaria is being held at Simla. There are forty delegates from all parts of India, Lord Alinto presiding. It was stated that fever deaths in India during the last decade averaged nearly four and a-lialf millions, owing to an epidemic in the united provinces and Punjab. Alosquito extermination largely figures in the problem. This and the quinine remedy were the chief problems under discussion. Colonel Leslie, Indian Sanitary Commissioner, suggested special provincial agencies to distribute quinine.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2633, 15 October 1909, Page 5
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96INDIA. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2633, 15 October 1909, Page 5
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