B02686
Photograph B02686 First World War, 1914-1918Auja. A view of a mosquito breeding area. A building is in the background.

The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Water storage area in the vicinity of Ludd which was considered to be a mosquito breeding place.
Auja. A view of a mosquito breeding area. A building is in the background.

A view of Auja, in the Jordan Valley, showing one of the canals that were cut to carry the water from the swamp areas. The object of this was to reduce the breeding ground of the mosquito and thus mi

A view of Auja, in the Jordan Valley, showing one of the canals that were cut to carry the water from the swamp areas. The object of this was to reduce the breeding ground of the mosquito and thus mi

The photograph shows a pool of still water at Tel-el-Kebir. The pool was a probable breeding place of the insect carriers of this disease and was later filled in.

A dog walking through a mosquito breeding area, north of the Judean Hills. Note the natural rock arch.
FINSCHHAFEN AREA, NEW GUINEA. 1944-04-09. VX102759 CAPTAIN I.C. MACDONALD, MALARIOLOGIST, 2ND AUSTRALIAN CORPS, WITH THE 15TH MALARIA CONTROL UNIT EXAMINING A SLUGGISH STREAM WHICH EMERGES FROM A GULL
