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scale will be made of preventive measures for the 

 protection of the agricultural population against 

 the scourge. Another extensive experiment on 

 the prophylaxis of malaria will be made on the 

 Emilian littoral. Moreover, in all the malarious 

 regions of the Italian peninsula the provincial and 

 communal administrations and many private persons 

 will co-operate in the application of preventive 

 measures. From all this it may be gathered that 

 during the summer and autumn the war against 

 malaria will be carried on in Italy with great vigour 

 and thoroughness." {British Medical Journal, 

 6th July 1901.) 



In India, the work started in 1900 by the Royal 

 Society Commissioners, and by the Nagpur Con- 

 ference, has been widely extended ; especially by 

 such researches as those of Major Buchanan, I. M.S., 

 Superintendent of the Central Jail, Nagpur. The 

 following paragraph, from the latest report of 

 the Sanitary Commissioner with the Government 

 of India, refers to Major Buchanan's published 

 work, Malarial Fevers and Malarial Parasites 

 in India: — 



" A remarkable note is struck at the outset, in 

 the acknowledgment made by the author of the 

 capable assistance rendered in these researches by 

 several of his Burmese prisoners, whom he trained 

 to the use of the microscope, and who soon became 

 expert in detecting and distinguishing the various 

 kinds of parasites. . . . Besides a systematic 

 clinical account of the different forms of fever and 

 the associated parasites, which is the first attempt 

 of the kind in India, there are a summary of the facts 



