The Rockfeller Foundation will} continue its fight on mi Philippine Islands on Dr. Victor G, Heiser, Foundations' work in the Far East, announced to-day. The big problem now, Dr. Helser states, is the reductr minimum cost of the la extermination campaign. The variety of the manquito. which spreads malaria has been discovered and methods for exterminating it will be pushed us fast as possible, "We have found the mosquitoes that cause malaria in the Philip-said Dr. Heiser. "After ind investigations during the last three years, the speculation as to the identity of the real mosquito causing it has bee removed from the realm of doubt to tone of certainty. These mosquitoes live, not in rain pools or empty cans that contain rain water, but in the beds of streams that have dried up with the advent of drought. 'They fro hidden under stones and they are killed, not by spraying petroleum fon the surface of the streams, but with arsenic (paris green) mixed, with dust. The mosquitoes swallow the dust "and they are the only' feat the sprayed dust, to them, the other'
of mosquitoes known in the not having u liking for the Approximately 30,000 people dio every year in the Philippines of, malaria, although the number of, deaths have been reduced in recent years by the campaign against the: mosquito, Dr. Heiser recently made inspection trip to " number of the Phill "The thing that impresses me} most to-day as I come back to the Philippines is that there is mors health-consciousness among the Fitipino people than ever before, said Dr, Heiser. "They are delving and inquiring into the causes of diseases; the barrio people are beinning to ask why they get thi and that disease and finding out from the health service what remedy they need to cure them, Bicol region of the islands, tance, where 14,000 people ara. suffering from Mookworm, they ara eager to know the means of getting the disease nnd the ways of pre: venting it. This is an encouraging sign of a growing nation, for when people are health-conscious they are ug to ce-operate with the health who was director of the Philippine Health Service from 1905 to 1915, anid the Philippines should congratulate themselves on nation of 11,000,000 people 1,800 trained nurses and a legion of doctors, while China with. 2 population of some 400,000,000 has: not even 100 nurses and fewer doctors.—Reuter's Pacific Service.
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