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examination of ovaries and young lice for the presence of spirochaetes 

 was made. The result was negative, but the author does not accept 

 this as definitely settling the question. 



Italie.— Instructions, en date du 21 fevrier 1918, du Ministre de la 

 Marine pour intensifier la Prophylaxie antimalarique sur le Front 

 de Mer. [Instructions, dated 21st February 1918, of the Itahan 

 Minister of Marine for intensifying Antimalarial ProphyUixis on 

 the Naval Front.] — Bull. Office Internal. Hygiene Publique, Paris, 

 X, no. 4, April 1918, pp. 372-377. 



The desirability of carrying out malarial prophylaxis more thor- 

 oughly has led to the appointment of special officers in the maritime 

 sectors of Venice, Taranto and Valona. Their duties include the 

 inspection of irrigation works in course of construction and the 

 arrangement of such working hours as will enable the labourers to 

 return before sunset to healthy localities ; the cleansing of existing 

 irrigation channels in spring and autumn ; the search for Anopheline 

 breeding places ; the organisation of regular oiling every fifteen days ; 

 the fitting of covers to wells ; the registration of persons who are 

 suffering from malaria or have suffered in the preceding twelve months ; 

 quinine prophylaxis and other personal measures ; and the execution 

 of any small works that may be needed to protect the military posts 

 against malaria. 



PiNoPou(R.). Aclaraciones oportunas. Historia del Descubrimiento 

 de la Fiebre recurrente en Venezuela (Relapsing Fever). [The 

 Discovery of Recurrent Fever in Venezuela.] — Gaceta Med., de 

 Caracas, :exy, no. 9, 15th May 1918, pp. 93-97. 



A case is recorded of a patient whose blood showed numbers of 

 spirochaetes resembling those from Colombia, Panama and North 

 America. This Venezuelan form gave negative results when inoculated 

 into monkeys, rabbits, guinea-pigs, dogs and fowls, while a positive 

 result was obtained with mice and rats. Rats were infected by using 

 the bed-bug [Cimex lectularius] as a transmitter, but fleas from rats 

 and mice did not convey the infection. Tick transmission was negative 

 and lice were not tested. 



PiTTALUGA (G.). Informe sobre las Medidas que conviene adoptar 

 para impedir el Desarrollo de Epidemias de Infecci6n pal^dica en 

 el Pantano de la Sotonera y en el Recorrido del Canal de los 

 Riegos de Alto Arag6n, durante los Trabajos que alll se efectiian. 



[A Communication on the Measures required to check Ma arial 

 Epidemics in the Sotonera Marsh and along the Canal of the 

 Irrigation System of Upper Aragon during the Execution of 

 Works now in Progress there. ] ■ — Bol. Inst. Nac. Higiene 

 Alfonso XIII, Madrid, xiv, no. 54, 30th June 1918, pp. 103-116. 



This report was drawn up after a visit to the district in January 

 1918. Among the labourers employed are a number of malaria 

 carriers and mosquitos are present in abundance. Anopheles macidi- 

 pennis and various Culicines were found. The measures advised are 

 those obtaining in modern practice, but as the destruction of the larvae 



