Annual medical report / Colony and Protectorate of Kenya.

  • Kenya. Medical Department.
Date:
[1937]
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Credit: Annual medical report / Colony and Protectorate of Kenya. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    7—General {a) Tests were made with “Buconin” and “Moskil”, two insecticides intended for use against mosquitoes. The former was too expensive for general use—though very effective. The latter was ineffective when compared with “homemade” pyrethrum-paraffin fluid. Cresol and chloride of lime were tested as mosquito larvicides on the suggestion of medical officers. Neither proved to be practicable. (b) Fly Breeding.—Brief investigations were carried out on the produc¬ tion of flies in compost pits (Indore system). Very large numbers of Musca spp. (?cuthbertsoni) were obtained from pits under observation. A similar investigation in connexion with fly breeding in pit latrines shows that very large numbers of Chrysomia are produced in pit latrines in general use. 8.—Plague Other than a small rat flea survey in the Keruguya-Embu district, no work has been done in connexion with plague. 9.—Typhus and Schistosomiasis Work on typhus and schistosomiasis has been discontinued for the time being. 10.—Acknowledgments I have pleasure in acknowledging help in various ways given by Dr. Edwards of the British Museum, Mr. C. F. M. Swynnerton and the members of the Tsetse Research Staff, Tanganyika, Sir G. Marshall and staff of the Imperial Institute of Entomology and, particularly, to Dr. Evans of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, whose death has deprived us of a colleague whose enthusiastic help, untiring energy and cheerfulness, we shall never forget. I wish also to record here the valuable work done by our African Assist¬ ants. They are fast becoming technical workers of no mean order—reliable, industrious and interested in their work. Their demands for increased know¬ ledge and experience are becoming more and more difficult to meet. 11—Publications “Anopheles funestus and its allies in Kenya”, by A. M. Evans and C. B. Symes. Ann. Trop. Med. & Par. Vol. 31, No. 1, April, 1937.