Report on the prevention of malaria in Cyprus / by Sir Ronald Ross ; presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of His Majesty.

  • Ross, Ronald, Sir, 1857-1932.
Date:
1914
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Credit: Report on the prevention of malaria in Cyprus / by Sir Ronald Ross ; presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of His Majesty. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    district. On the 2nd April Dr. Patrick and I went, in the company of Mr. E. H. D. Nicolls, Director of Public Works, to investigate the villages in the neighbourhood of the large reservoirs in the Mesaoria, to the west of Eamagusta. We spent two nights in the irrigation bungalow close to Akhyritou. There was much malaria in these villages; hut we could find no larva; in the reservoirs, which appeared to be to he much too open and full of fish to be very suitable for them. On the other hand we found many larvee in the small marsh close to Akhyritou made for brick manufacture and partly fed by the discharge from the Akhyritou reservoir. The spleen-rate in this village was 100 per cent. On the 4th April we rode to Eamagusta and found anopheline larvee in the lake some miles west of that town. During the nest two days Mr. Nicolls, Dr. Euleihan and I examined the conditions at Eamagusta, Trikomo, Verynia, Paralimni, and Yarosia, and on the 6th April Mr. Nicolls and I returned to Nicosia by trolley in order to inspect the conditions along the railway line. In the meantime His Excellency Sir Hamilton Goold-Adams had gone on leave to England. On the 7th April I discussed with His Excellency the Acting High Commissioner, Captain Orr, and with Dr. Cleveland and Mr. Nicolls some preliminary points of importance, and on the evening of the same day I left Nicosia by Public Works motor car to study the Limassol and the Paphos districts with Dr. Patrick. On the 8th April we examined the barracks of the British troops at Polymidia near Limassol in company with the officer com- manding and the Medical Officer, and also looked at some neigh- bouring villages. The same evening we studied the marsh near Limassol in company with the Mayor of Limassol and the District Medical Officer, Dr. Corsellis, and found numerous anopheline larvee of full size in the sheep holes and also amongst the reeds of the marsh, and also discovered them in water escaping from the town water works. Next day, the 9th April, we proceeded by car to Paphos, and in the evening, in the company of the Commissioner, Major Bayly, the Mayor of Paphos, the District Medical Officer, Dr. Yassiliades, and several of the Rural Medical Officers, we examined some stagnant water close to the harbour of Paphos, where we found a very large number of anophelines and other mosquito larvae. On the 10th April we returned to Limassol, studying the conditions en route, and in the evening we re-visited the Limassol marsh. On the 11th April we returned to Nicosia, examining the con- ditions en route. On the 12th April I prepared a popular lecture, which was delivered at the theatre in Nicosia before His Excellency the Acting Commissioner and a large audience on Sunday, 13th April. Next day Dr. Cleveland and ourselves met a number of the District and Rural Medical Officers in the Council Room and discussed with them for two hours a number of questions connected with malaria, showing them specimens which we had collected. On the 15th April Dr. Patrick, Mr. Nicolls, and Mr. Day, the General Manager of the railway, and myself left by special train for Morphou and the west of the Island, and examined the marsh near Syrinnochorio where again we found large numbers of anophelines amongst the reeds