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WITH the distressing effects of the malaria epidemic and famine in Ceylon still fresh in our minds, the subject of the chemotherapy of malaria may very appropriately be discussed at the present time. The area affected was not so large as Yorkshire, but the cost of relief measures was about £350,000, and during the six months from November until April, 14½ tons of quinine, costing £50,700, was used. About £20,000 was also spent on the new antimalarial remedy called atebrin. The epidemic reminded the world once again that no royal road or short cut to the prevention of malaria has yet been found. During recent years similar reminders have come from British India, Malaya, East and South Africa, Nigeria, the Sudan, Mauritius, Trinidad, Barbados and other British territories overseas. A few years ago an epidemic in British India prostrated the whole population of an area twice as big as England. The ordinary business of large cities was interrupted, no labour could be obtained, transport was disorganised, and even sellers of food ceased to carry on their trade. In one group of towns and villages the deaths during the month of October, instead of being as in a normal year about 6,840, were 76,250.
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James, S. Chemotherapy of Malaria. Nature 136, 743–745 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136743a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/136743a0