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NEW GUINEA. MOSQUITO CONTROL. FIVE HUNDRED ACRES OF WATER-LOGGED GROUND WILL BE DRAINED BY THIS CHANNEL. FIFTY LOCAL MEN WILL COMPLETE THE WORK IN SIX WEEKS. IN DECEMBER 1942 MALARIA INCIDENCE RESULTED IN 8.9% OF TROOPS RECEIVING TREATMENT EACH WEEK. WITH THE NEW METHODS OF COMBATING MOSQUITOES, MALARIA INCIDENCE FELL TO 0.8% IN TWO MONTHS. (NEGATIVE BY N. BROWN).
NEW GUINEA. MOSQUITO CONTROL. FIVE HUNDRED ACRES OF WATER LOGGED GROUND WILL BE DRAINED BY THIS CHANNEL. FIFTY LOCALS WILL COMPLETE THE WORK IN SIX WEEKS. IN DECEMBER 1942, MALARIA INCIDENCE RESULTED
NEW GUINEA. MOSQUITO CONTROL. LOCAL MEN EACH WEEK SPRAY ALL CREEK MARGINS, WATER HOLDS, WHEEL RUTS, WATER LOGGED TRACKS, ETC. IN DECEMBER 1942 MALARIA INCIDENCE RESULTED IN 8.9% OF TROOPS RECEIVING TR
NEW GUINEA. MOSQUITO CONTROL. LOCAL MEN EACH WEEK SPRAY ALL CREEK MARGINS, WATER HOLES, WHEEL RUTS, WATER-LOGGED TRACKS, ETC. IN DECEMBER 1942, MALARIA INCIDENCE RESULTED IN 8.9% OF TROOPS RECEIVING T
NEW GUINEA. C. 1945-01. BEATING THE BUG, MALARIA CONTROL UNITS IN NEW GUINEA HAVE REDUCED THE INCIDENCE OF THE DISEASE TO ALMOST NEGLIGIBLE PROPORTIONS. CORPORAL T. J. SELKRIG OF ASCOT VALE, VIC, IS D
Soldiers of the 1st Australian Civil Affairs Unit are helping to foster a booming chicken raising industry in Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam. Each week two Australian soldiers drive fourty five mil
Following an outbreak of dengue fever in the town of Long Dien, about five miles south of 1ATF base this week, a team of Australian Army health technicians were sent to assist the people. Comprising a