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Cardamatis (J. p.). Le Paludisme en Mac6doine. — Grece Medicale, 

 Athens, xx, no. 13-18, July- August-September 1918, pp. 21-30. 



Owing to the wide tracts of marshy land and stagnant water, malaria 

 is endemic in Macedonia perhaps to a greater degree than in the rest 

 of Greece. The four species of Anophelines common to both regions 

 aie Anopheles mamdipennis, A. palestinensis {super pictus), A. hifurcatus 

 and A. sinensis, A. maculipennis being the commonest in Macedonia 

 and A. palestinensis in Greece proper. The capacity of Anophelines 

 for conveying infection is a factor to be added to those known to favour 

 an epidemic, and in those years when malaria diminished A. palestinensis 

 appeared to be smaller in size and of less vitality. The chief cause of 

 this degeneration would appear to be severe cold in winter retarding 

 its development. 



Ktnghorn (A.). Plague in the Luangwa Valley, 1917-1918.— M./S. 



Report to the Administrator, Northern Rhodesia, dated 9th May 

 1918. 



The outbreak of plague here recorded was chiefly confined to village 

 rats {Mus rattus), although it is not suggested that M. norvegicus and 

 field rats were not affected. Not uncommonly rats were infested 

 with the larvae of a species of Cordylobia. No determinations were 

 made of the species of fleas found on the rats. 



Greggio (J.). La Maladie du Sommeil dans I'Afrique equatoriale. — 



Etudes, Revue fondee en 1856 par des Peres de la Compagnie de 

 Jesus, clviti, nos. 1-2, 5th January 1919, pp. 41-64, 195-211. 

 (Notice in Trop. Dis. Bull., London, xiii, no. 5, 15th May 1919, p. 

 271.) 



An interesting popular account is given of sleeping sickness in 

 equatorial Africa, dealing in turn with its history, aetiology, clinical 

 manifestations, diagnosis, treatment and effect on the future of Africa. 



Chagas (C). [Host of the Trypanosoma cruzi.] — Revista Medico- 

 Cirurgica Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, xxvi, no. 5, May 1918, p. 220. 

 (Abstract in Jl. Amer. Med. Assoc, Chicago, 111, Ixxi, no. 12, 

 21st September 1918, p. 1015.) 



The author found that 45-50 per cent, of the armadillos caught in 

 regions infested with Chagas' disease contained the causal trypano- 

 some {Trypanosoma cruzi), which does not appear to affect them, 

 though it is extremely virulent to man. The intermediate host, the 

 bug, Triatoma {Lamus) megista, may possibly be a parasite of the 

 armadillo. 



Darling (S. T.). Sobre algumas Medidas anti-malaricas em Malaya. 

 [Some Anti-malarial Measures in Malaya.] — Annaes Paidistas 

 Medicina e Cirurgia, SOo Paulo, ix, no. 12, December 1918, pp. 

 265-274, 3 plates. 



This is a description of some of the measures, chiefly concerned with 

 drainage, employed against malaria in Malaya. 



