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...disease and defeat, U.S. prisoners of war in Japanese camps are dying at the rate of 50 per 1,000 per year. Last week the War Department gave out the names of an additional 291, bringing the total since Bataan and Corregidor to 929 dead of such diseases as malaria, diphtheria, dysentery, pneumonia and beriberi.* Knowing the poor condition of the men who fought on Bataan, the War Department has made no charge of maltreatment. But the Surgeon General's Office thinks the death rate high...
...another man's necessity. In the North, rifles are used mainly for sport ; but in the West and South, rifles are a tool used to kill rabbits and deer which ruin crops. Window screens, unneeded in some places (New York City), are vitally necessary to protect Southerners from malaria-carrying mosquitoes. Long ago WPB was forced to dole out more ammunition for civilian rifles...
...well the Japs feed some prisoners is dubious. Of 13,724 U.S. soldiers in Jap camps, 600 are already known to be dead, chiefly from malnutrition, pneumonia, malaria, dysentery and diphtheria...
...Society held its fifth monthly meeting. The assembled U.S., British and Australian doctors listened to learned papers by some of their company on "Aviation Medicine in Combat," "Moral Fiber," "Fear," "The Fighter Pilot" and "Medical Air Service." There were exhibits on aviation medicine and the life cycle of local malaria-bearing mosquitoes, including a tank of live fish in the act of eating mosquito larvae. The doctors, said the report to the A.M.A. Journal, saw "a complete display of Japanese surgical instruments and appliances with many of their drugs and much of their first-aid equipment." The topic...
Where the malaria rate is very high, where deadly falciparum malaria prevails, or "where measures of control are difficult to enforce," Dr. Coggeshall recommends drugs. But in most situations he believes in screens and sprays, would actually omit drugs. Now being released to teach malaria and mosquito control in Latin America and the U.S. was Walt Disney's short, Winged Scourge, made under the direction of the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs. Like Coggeshall, Disney comes out strongly for screens (see cuts...