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RURAL HEALTH IN capture of the adult mosquito-re-

MALAYA.

ROCKEFELLER CHIEF INTERVIEWED.

DR. HEISER'S VIEW.

commended by the League of Nations in Europe. Among poor populations, with no Government backing, the lutter system is possi- bly the only practicable one, but Malaya has unquestionably the more effectivo method. After all, malarla is so important here, and it so bound up with the economic development of the country, that' they have naturally found it proât- able to spend more money on malaria control, and they have been very successful"

Outstanding Work...

The remarkable response of the native population to the anti-hook worm propagands In the Straits and Java, and Malaya's leadership in the fight' against malaria are the outstanding impressions received

"I was much impressed with Sir by Dr. Victor G. Heiser, head of Malcolm Watson's work at Klang," the Rockefeller health work in the Dr. Helser continued. "The East, during the tour of inspection malaria division of the F. M. S. on which he is at present engaged. Government health service is also Interviewed by a Straits Times doing remarkable work, both in representative at the Adelphi Hotel, research and in the practical ap Dr. Heiser readily responded to aplication of knowledge. Dr. J. W. request to discuss the rural sanita- Scharff has done excellent work in tion campaigns which have been the rural areas of Singapore Island, conducted in Malacca and Penang, and Dr. P. S. Hunter has achieved (and which will be extended to remarkable results in the Municipal Singapore and Labuan early this district. Gunong Pulai is an out- year) by the International Health standing piece of work. Other Board of the Rockefeller Founda- promising research work, open- tion, under the local direction of ing up new possibilities, is Dr. Russell.

being done at Slugupore. Allo gether, Malaya is a very rich field of study. You have not only the theory of malaria control but you have the application of the theory as well, and that after all is the only reni tent."..

"The work is making very good progress,' said Dr. Heiser. "People are responding almost un- believeably well to the educational campaign. 1 do not know whether the native population in this part of the world is more responsive than

From Singapore Dr Heiser goes elsewhere, or whether it is simply to Sarawak, where the local Govern that we have discovered a betterment has asked the Rockefeller method of approach, but at any rate organisation to make a generul sur- the response has been really grati-vey of the health situation in the fying. The health centres that State, and to suggest what changes, have been established seem to catch if any, are desirable in the State the interest of all classes. Mulays, health services. Dr. Yeager, Indians and Chinese avail them-

of the International Health Board, selves of the facilities offered, and has been in Sarawak for some time we have received plenty of support past, and Dr. Heiser will discuss from the European element.

the situation with him.

A Java Development. Asked whether any progress had been made towards making Asiatic methods of fertilising the soil safer, Dr. Heiser said that the problem of soil pollution was looked upon as almost hopeless a few years ago, but he had been very much en couraged by what he had seen dur- ing his present tour. There had been a remarkable development in Java where a type of rural sanita- tion had been invented which cost nothing to maintain, thus removing the great objection to other methods of solving this problem, and which, after a period of six months, en abled the usual method of manuring to be followed without the slightest danger of spreading disease. This idea had been thoroughly tried out In Java and India, where it had worked very well, and it was going to be introduced into Malaya thla

year.

Native Co-operation; "The gratifying part of the rural sanitation work is that the natives really understand and appreciate it," Dr. Heiser said. "You can take anyone, almost a child, in a district where an educational campaign has been carried out, and he will tell you the reason why these things are being done. One even hears of coolies refusing to go to estates which are not up-to-date in, theso matters because they do not want their children to be infected. Tho eituation in Malaya until recently was that as soon as the natives were cured of hookworm they caught it again, but we are introducing sanitary safeguards in the rural areas of Malacca and Penang, and when these are popularised through- out the country soil pollution will cease and people will need no further treatment. It will also mean that other diseases, such as dysentery, typhoid, and cholern, will be done away with. The Java device, which provides safe and ex- collent fertiliser, will be of especial value on estates. Good green veget- ables are almost essential to health, but at present it is not practicable to give them to estate coolies owing to a lack of safe fertilisers, and that difficully will be removed in future.

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Malaya and Molaria.

Dr. Heigor has been giving a good deal of attention to malaria control during his tour through the Penin- sula, and he paid the health authori- ties in Malaya a very high compli ment. "I suppose it is true to any that this country, taking the Straits and the Malay States as a whole, in' further advaneed in this subject than any other that I know, of," he said and it may be pointed out that Dr. Heiser travels continually through the countries of the Near. Middle, and Far East, Malaysia, and the South Seas. "Really ex- cellent progress has been made here, and it is encouraging to find other countrica adopting the methods which are proving so successful' In Malaya. Ceylon is sending, one of their experts over to Malaya, and the Rockefeller organisation la greatly interested in the work that is being done hore-so much so that one of our leading men Dr. Hackett, is coming here to make a study of the whole system in Malaya with a view to familiarising himself with ft and seeing how far it l practicable to introduce it into other countries.

"As to the Far Eastern Medical Congress at Calcutta thero was s difference of expert opinion as to the respective merits of the anti- larval methods used in Malaya, and the system of quinine treatment and

Covering Half the World.

Dr. Heiser must have one of the largest territories in the world, covered by any man holding an ad- ministrative post. He has just travelled through Egypt, the Near Enst, India, Ceylon, and Java, and his territory also includes the Philipplines, China, Japan, Austra lia, and the South Sea Islands, It takes him from nine to twelve months to complete one itinerary, and he sees very little of the Inter- national Health Board's headquar- ters in New York. One interesting duty which lies ahead of him is to attend an international convention which has been called by the Governments of Australia and New Zealand with a view to preserving the Polynesian islanders from the extinction which now threatens them. The native raees in the faland Fiji, Solomon, and other Island groups have been steadily dwindling for years past, and the Rockefeller organisation has been asked to co-operate in endeavouring to save them....

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