SOME FACTS ABOUT MALARIA, he 
in India. In Italy, by the means of mechanical protection, the 
malaria rate was reduced from 65 or 70 per cent down to 14 per cent, 
but here it held. The quininization 
method was then introduced, and the 
general malaria rate for Italy has by its 
means been reduced to less than 4 per 
cent. 
This method consists in the distribu- 
tion of free quinine to all laborers and 
to the poor living in malarious locali- 
ties. The quinine is prepared in its 
most agreeable form, as confectionery 
and principally as chocolates, the latter 
containing tannate of quinine, which 
is not so bitter. It is more easy to 
Fic, 6.—Anopheles quadrimaculatus. 
Pupa. Greatly enlarged. (Origi- 
nal.) 
induce children and those adults who can not tolerate the ordinary 
quinine salts to take the quinine in this form. 
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