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In the opinion of the conference held in Brisbane in January 1918, 

 federal activity for the eradication of ticks must take the form of either 

 partial or complete co-operation or federal control ; the explanation of 

 these terms and their suitability to various localities is discussed. 

 In New South Wales the commission respecting the administration 

 of the Tick Acts, 1918, decided that eradication could only be effected 

 by the whole matter bemg placed under federal control. 



A summary of the results of researches on tick resistance in cattle is 

 appended [see this Review, Ser. B, vi, p. 187.. vii, pp. 112, 114]. 



€leland (J. B.). Eighth Report of the Microbiological Laboratory 

 (Government Bureau of Microbiology) for the Year 1917. -Rept. 



Director-Gen. Public Health N.S.W. for Year ended 31st December 

 1917, Sydney, 1919, pp. 144-149. [Received 11th October 1919.] 



Although no plague-infected rat has been found at Sydney since 

 1910, routine measures are taken for the examination of rats and mice, 

 8,395 being inspected during 1917. The actual numbers of rat-fleas 

 collected each month are given and also expressed as a ratio per 1,000 

 of rats examined, the results being shown in a chart. The species 

 found included Xenopsylla {Laemopsylla) cheopis, Ctenopsylla niusculi 

 and Ceratophyllus fasciatus. 



Cleland (J. B.), Campbell (A. W.), Bradley (B.) & others. The 

 Australian Epidemics of an Acute Polio-encephalo-myelitis 

 (X Disease). The Possibility of the Occurrence of an Intermediate 

 (Invertebrate) Host of the '^'ivws -Rept. Director-Gen. Public 

 Heulth N.S.W. for Year ended 31st. December 1917, Sydney, 1919, 

 pp. 173-174. [Received 11th October 1919.] 



Among the insects reviewed as possible carriers of anterior 

 poliomyelitis in affected districts in Australia are the fleas, Ctenocephalus 

 canis and Pulex irritans ; Cimex lectularius (bed-bug) ; Stomoxys 

 calcitrans (stable-fly) ; the mosquitos, Culex fatigans, Cnlex sitiens 

 {Culicelsa annulirostris), and Anopheles (Nyssorhynchus) annulipes, 

 the last-named being of rare occurrence ; Tabanids ; head and body 

 lice ; Argas persicus (fowl tick), which probably occurs throughout 

 the affected districts, but is not known with certainty to bite man in 

 Australia ; Musca domestica, which is common in houses throughoLit 

 the affected districts ; Fannia canicularis ; Musca velustissima (bush 

 fly), which is abundant and is attracted by the secretion from the 

 eyes ; and the blow-flies, Anastellorhina augur and Pollenia stygia, 

 which are widely distributed throughout the district and have a 

 predilection for feeding on human faeces as well as infesting live sheep. 

 It was decided, however, that none of these could be looked upon as 

 possible intermediate vectors of the disease. 



Howlett (F. M.). Proposals for the Provision of Laboratories and 

 Staff for the Study of Insect Parasitology.— 5f/. Agric. India, 

 Proc. 1st Meeting Vet. Officers in India (Lahore), Calcutta, 1919, 

 Appendix D, pp. 43-45. 



This appendix details proposals for the provision of an adequate 

 staff and laboratories for the study of insect parasitology. ^fhe 



