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The Epidemic of Malarial Fever in Natal, 1905

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

Ernest Hill  and
L. G. Haydon
Ernest Hill
Affiliation:
Health Officer for the Colony of Natal
L. G. Haydon
Affiliation:
Assistant Port Health Officer
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Natal, which has been considered of recent years to be a malaria-free country, has been visited in the past six months by an extensive epidemic of this disease.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Hygiene , Volume 5 , Issue 4 , October 1905 , pp. 467 - 484
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1905

References

1 The death-rate is probably much higher, because it is only the deaths of “Protected” Indians, entering under special conditions, which are systematically registered, and of 25 percent. of the total Indians in the Colony, deaths are rarely registered.

1 The Practical Study of Malaria. London, 1904.Google Scholar

1 The most suitable diet appears to be sliced apple, with water available for drinking. Apple is preferable to banana, which is apt to entangle the legs. Pyretophorus costalis if left undisturbed in the dark thrives well enough in captivity, and feeds freely on human blood if opportunity is afforded; females in captivity occasionally deposited eggs in the drinking throughs, and the eggs hatched out in about forty hours at laboratory temperature in April. The food which suited the larvae best appeared to be dry lean meat, pulverised.