The appearance of dark blue mosquitoes struck terror in a certain area of northern Transvaal, where a most severe epidemic of malaria was already raging. Local residents feared some new horror until the clerk of country store, observing something wriggling in an inkwell discovered it to be full of mosquito larva, in which apparently they had bred.
Malaria is now raging over a wide area of northern Transvaal, where the majority of natives are laid low by the disease and few Europeans are still able to carry on.
All hospital within the stricken area are filled to overflowing, includipg large marquees erected in the grounds; in some cases private houses have been converted into temporary clearing stations.
Railways in these areas are suffering severely owing to the depletion of the European staffs. Farmers are unable to reap their crops, which are rotting in the ground owing to an almost. complete absence of native labourers.
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