Excerpt from The Malaria Problem in Peace and War
The immensity of the problem of malaria eradication would be absolutely appalling, were it not for the encouraging and increasing evidence of a material reduction in the rate of malaria frequency in practically every locality or section where modem methods of disease prevention and control have been vigorously and continuously carried into effect, although naturally with a widely varying degree of success in the results achieved. The possibilities of more or less complete malaria eradication in restricted areas are, therefore, no longer questioned by any one familiar with the recorded facts of a public-health problem of the utmost practical importance to large numbers of our own population and the peoples of other and still more afflicted countries.
MALARIA AND WAR Malaria, while primarily a health and engineering problem of the semitropics and the tropics, is nevertheless a disease of world-wide distribution, and the menace of its occurrence and reintroduction into regions relatively or entirely free therefrom is best illustrated by its lamentable recurrence among the Allied armies in Flanders and northern France. Unhappily, the impressive lessons of past military experience have apparently been ignored, and "large numbers of troops arc rendered inefficient for considerable periods by autumnal fever, as it is called, and this to an extent which seriously handicaps the military position." As pointed out by Surgeon-Major E. Rist, of the French Scientific Mission, in an address before the American Public Health Association (October 19, 1917), there have occurred "a considerable number of cases of malaria in soldiers returned from Saloniki, Macedonia, and the Vardar-Valley," which is known to be "one of the most malaria-infested places in the world."
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