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League of Nations Malaria Investigation Committee to India. A British doctor in India indicating the size of a young child's spleen enlarged by malaria

League of Nations Malaria Investigation Committee to India. A British ...

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League of Nations Malaria Investigation Committee, United Provinces, India. Anti-malaria educational play put on by youngsters dealing with the treatment of the disease, the use of quinine

League of Nations Malaria Investigation Committee, United Provinces, I...

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League of Nations Malaria Investigation Committee to India. A concrete-lined ditch which was the type of open ditch in which the anopheles minimus mosquito would not breed in this section of India

League of Nations Malaria Investigation Committee to India. A concrete...

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League of Nations Malaria Investigation Committee, Madras (vicinity), India. Children of the workers from the firewood section just above Madras ready to be spleened. The spleen rate is fourteen percent

League of Nations Malaria Investigation Committee, Madras (vicinity), ...

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League of Nations Malaria Investigation Committee to India. A stone-lined ditch, a method proved ineffective in preventing breeding of anopheles minimus. Vegetation sprang up quickly in the cracks between the rocks and in this vegetation minimus was breeding

League of Nations Malaria Investigation Committee to India. A stone-li...

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Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma highway, Chefang Valley, China. The house built for the guard of the gambusia minnow hatchery. Not only herons and cattle disturb the little fish, but the people found them quite tasty when fried; thus a man had to be hired to guard the hatchery

Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma high...

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Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma highway. A section of the Burma road showing the construction of the road

Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma high...

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Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma Highway. A close view of a crock used as a gambusia minnow hatchery

Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma High...

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Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma Highway, Chefang, China. The market place. Shans are selling bettlenut and lime, the local chewing tobacco

Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma High...

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Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma Highway, Chefang Valley, China. Knee deep in mud. Ditches across the seepage area carry water direct to main drainage ditch

Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma High...

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Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma highway, Chefang (vicinity), China. Paris green dusting

Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma high...

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Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma highway, Chefang (vicinity), China. Early stage in digging the seepage ditch in the Old Fort area

Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma high...

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Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma highway, Chefang, China. A street scene

Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma high...

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Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma highway. A section of the Burma road

Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma high...

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Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma Highway, Chefang Valley, China. Green bamboo lasts almost indefinitely if kept wet. Piled in the sun like this, it dries quickly, and pops with a loud noise

Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma High...

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Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma highway, Chefang, China. A market place

Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma high...

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Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma highway, Chefang (vicinity), China. Ditch digging in the mud, a slow process

Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma high...

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Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma highway. A village street along the Burma road with a ditch running down the center. The anopheles minimus mosquito will not breed in this dirty water

Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma high...

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Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma highway, Chefang (vicinity), China. Oiling anopheles minimus breeding places

Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma high...

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Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma Highway, Chefang Valley, China. Bamboo "pipe" kept in a ditch to keep it wet for later use

Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma High...

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Chefang Valley, China. The main drainage ditch running through irrigated rice fields and showing a wide seepage area on either side. Anopheles minimus breeds in the gently moving water, breed for several feet out from the dike. In the middle area, as where the water buffalo is standing ankle deep in water, there is very little movement in the water and no minimus breeding. Minimus breeds again for several feet on either side of the main drainage stream where the moving water eddies back into the grass

Chefang Valley, China. The main drainage ditch running through irrigat...

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Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma highway, Chefang (vicinity), China. Testing for anopheles minimus inlet and outlet irrigation ditches. No minimus were found in the ditch that is damned up, yet there were many in the ditch where water is flowing

Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma high...

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Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma highway. The old Burma road passing through a village. The bridge is used only when the water is high

Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma high...

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Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma Highway, Chefang, China. Local pottery

Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma High...

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Chefang Valley, China. For dusting purposes ten parts of Paris green are mixed with 90 parts of road dust. It was thought that the simplest way of mixing would be to have the full drum rolled to the fields, as pictured here. However the workmen objected rolling something they could carry and insisted on picking up the drum after a short distance so this method was abandoned

Chefang Valley, China. For dusting purposes ten parts of Paris green a...

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Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma Highway, Chefang, China. Thick film examination in the laboratory. The blood rates in winter are over fifty-eight percent

Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma High...

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Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma Highway, Chefang Valley, China. Filling dusters with a Paris green mixture

Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma High...

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Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma highway, Chefang Valley, China. Digging by hand. At some points this was found to be more efficient than by spade

Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma high...

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Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma highway, Chefang (vicinity), China. Gambusia minnow hatchery in a spring at the edge of the rice fields. When the gambusia were put here, herons and other birds start to eat them. Thus the spring had to be covered with loosely woven mats; when the cattle trampled these a fence had to be built

Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma high...

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Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma Highway, Chefang Valley, China. Drainage ditch from rice field. Minimus will breed along either bank where the water is moving, but not in pools where water vegetation grows

Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma High...

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Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma Highway, Chefang Valley, China. The edge of a seepage area. Water wells up out of the ground at right. Anopheles minimus breeds in the vegetation to its left and right. There is no minimus in the quiet water to the left

Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma High...

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Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma Highway, Chefang, China. A natural spring at the edge of the city, supplying water to the area which was used as a gambusia minnow hatchery

Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma High...

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Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma Highway, Chefang, China. Shan mother at a spring

Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma High...

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Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma highway, Chefang (vicinity), China. Oiling anopheles minimus breeding place

Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma high...

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Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma highway, Chefang (vicinity), China. Paris green dusting

Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma high...

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Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma highway, Chefang, China. Rice fields at a time of year when they are not flooded

Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma high...

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Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma highway, Chefang, China. Washing in the stream, at the family's regular washing place. The strong soap rinsed from the clothes keeps the stream free of mosquitoes for about 100 yards

Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma high...

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Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma highway, Chefang (vicinity), China. Small irrigation ditch in the rice fields formerly had anopheles minimus mosquitoes breeding in pockets all along it. It has been rechanneled, as indicated by the new mud piled up on both sides. But the cattle have already trampled it; vegetation is growing in the cattle tracks and minimus are starting to breed in it again. The ditch had to be dusted with Paris green

Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma high...

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Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma highway, Chefang (vicinity), China. Quiet water full of hoof prints containing back-water from a stream. There are no anopheles minimus

Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma high...

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Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma Highway, Chefang, China. Market day

Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma High...

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Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma highway, Chefang Valley, China. Long view showing several connecting ditches

Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma high...

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Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma highway. Chefang (vicinity), China. Deepening a gambusia hatchery

Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma high...

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Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma highway, Chefang (vicinity), China. Staking out and starting a seepage ditch in the Old Fort area

Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma high...

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Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma highway, Chefang (vicinity), China. The edge of the Old Fort seepage area

Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma high...

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A truck-load of supplies and laborers' families enroute to a many-times-moved airplane factory, which is now somewhere in India

A truck-load of supplies and laborers' families enroute to a many-time...

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Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma Highway, Chefang, China. Crocks in the compound of the American research staff where the first gambusia minnows were put

Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma High...

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Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma highway, Chefang (vicinity), China. The main drainage ditch for the irrigated rice fields. A small village lies behind the bamboo trees in the background

Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma high...

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Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma Highway, Chefang Valley, China. Taking sample of water to test from a typical breeding place for anopheles minimus

Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma High...

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League of Nations Malaria Investigation Committee to India. A school in India away from the anopheles culicifacies country, to which wealthy parents sent their children to avoid malaria. The entire school was infected however, by the anopheles stephensi mosquito which, unlike the culicifacies, broods in such places as the deep dark well seen in the foreground

League of Nations Malaria Investigation Committee to India. A school i...

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Public Health Serive Investigation Commission to the China-Burma higway, Chefang Valley, China. Long straight ditch the morning after it had been dug. The soil is so soft that the walls shift in one night whenever there is action by small springs

Public Health Serive Investigation Commission to the China-Burma higwa...

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League of Nations Malaria Investigation Committee, Punjab, India. A typical village of the Punjab plains. There is always a tank in the foreground from the mud of which the walls of the village in the background were made. These tanks produce anopheles culicifacies mosquitoes during and immediately after the monsoon. When they become dirty they do not produce anophelinae

League of Nations Malaria Investigation Committee, Punjab, India. A ty...

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Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma highway. Terraced hillside in southwest China showing careful water control in agriculture. The hills are high and out of the mosquito area

Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma high...

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League of Nations Malaria Investigation Committee, Punjab, India. Cattle tracks in a sand bar. Anopheles culicifacies larvae were found in these tracks. In contrast to the anapheles minimus, which breeds in gently flowing water, the culicifacies prefers still water

League of Nations Malaria Investigation Committee, Punjab, India. Catt...

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League of Nation Malaria Investigation Committee, Punjab, India. A typical "tank" in a village, showing water buffalos who spend most of the sunshine hours here as there is no nearby mud wallow. There "tanks" are used by water buffalos, because these animals, lacking sweat glands, could not otherwise stand the noonday heat. The result is a high malaria rate in the village

League of Nation Malaria Investigation Committee, Punjab, India. A typ...

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Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma highway. A treacherous section of the Burma road

Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma high...

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League of Nations Malaria Investigation Committee to India. Dusting both banks of a small stream in India. One man paddles while the other two dust

League of Nations Malaria Investigation Committee to India. Dusting bo...

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League of Nations Investigation Committee, Bengal, India. Group of youngsters of an agricultural cooperative with tools with which they say they clear the banks of water breeding anophelinse mosquitos

League of Nations Investigation Committee, Bengal, India. Group of you...

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Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma highway, Chefang (vicinity), China. The edge of the Old Fort seepage area

Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma high...

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