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YELLOW FEVER AND AIR TRAVEL

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tion, as far as is known, has been Singapore Bureau is kept in-

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Fortunately that has not hap- pened, but it will not hurt to bear in mind that the warnings of experts are intended to rouse the authorities that guard public health out of complacency and in not to breed uneasiness the public mind. It must not be thought that nothing is being done to combat such dangers. the The acting Director of

- Nations League

*Eastern Bureau Singapore recently made a reassuring statement on this subject. He said that after long and careful study of the yellow fever mosquito and the means habits of the of diagnosing the early stages of the disease, an Inter- No unimpeachable confirma-national Convention has recently

been ratified.

a result, the received of the strange ailment formed by cable of the arrival of which broke out aboard the Kay-passengers arriving in India from yellow-fever-infected areas ing at Hoihow, establishing it as

in Africa and of their destina- yellow fever, and there is, there- tions in Asia. The information fore, probably, very little cause is broadcast for the benefit of aerodromes and for anxiety. Doubt of the accur-aeroplanes,

health authorities along the air acy of a yellow fever diagnosis routes who take the necessary is natural enough, for the reason preventive action. The link of that the Asiatic continent has Hong Kong with Empire air hitherto escaped any visitation routes and the possibility of a

service from Africa

to

Ceylon of this particular scourge and direct can convert what once short of a miracle, there would seemed a remote and rather seem to no conceivable means exaggerated danger into a tangi- menace. It is imperative whereby yellow fever infection ble could have been passed on. Were that health authorities every- it otherwise, there would be where should enforce regulations much more alarm than has yet as stringent as those that are been revealed over the incident. now in operation in India in re- Yellow fever spreads rapidly. It gard to passengers arriving by is mosquito-borne and the dis-air. ease develops within five days of the infected bite. The particular mosquito which conveys it is known to exist Hong Kong and the Far East. It is certain, The announcement that steps therefore, that if by any chance are to be taken in Italy to control yellow fever were introduced in the growing of castor oil plants this part of the world, drastic as part of a scheme for dis- steps would be taken to prevent ciplining the production of castor the appalling ravages which oil" can hardly help but remind otherwise would certainly follow. many readers that there seems The Kaying case stands doubt to be a somewhat close connec- ed because of its isolation and tion between discipline" and because the vessel had not pass castor oil in the land of the Duce. ed out of Chinese waters, though But when last we heard of that the stringent precautions taken subject in connection with an ex- on arrival of the ship in Hong tract that is rarely loved for it- Kong were undoubtedly well ad- self alone it was the takers who vised, just in case.

were being disciplined and not the growers. And the takers, One thing the incident does, poor things, were under the com- however, bring once again to the pulsion of something stronger forefront is the necessity for a than doctor's orders. careful watch upon passengers

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in swarms in Castor Oil & Discipline other parts of

using the great air routes of the Perhaps the treatment proved world... Sea travel carried with tive. At any rate, the new it perils of the spreading of dis-regulations about castor oil plant ease from continent to contin- growing in Italy are concerned It ent, but the time taken from, with restricting the crops. say, Africa to China eliminated reems reasonable to assume that the risk of conveyance of some the oil itself is no longer requir. of the worst of Africa's scourges, ed in quite such large quantities. The development of air travel Perhaps castor oil is now only re- has changed things much for the quired for strictly medicinal worse and increasing attention purposes.