RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

INTERNATIONAL HEALTH DIVISION 37
throughout the length and breadth of any country.
Certain restricted areas are selected to show
what, if anything, can be done to control malaria
by methods adapted to that locality and within
the means of the population concerned. Since
work is undertaken only in cooperation with the
local authorities or government the result of
these demonstrations usually is that further
work along the same lines is incorporated as a
part of government activities.
The
Rockefeller Foundation is interested in
malaria field studies in Albania, where a malariologist,
a drainage engineer, and an entomologist
collaborate with the Albanian Government in devising
permanent antilarval measures based on
sound biological and engineering investigations.
Under new conditions such as exist in Albania
a permanent solution of local malaria problems,
while it may be more expensive in the beginning,
is to be preferred to temporary measures, such
as the application of larvicides. It is possible to
awaken enthusiasm in the population to make
the financial sacrifices necessary to secure permanent
measures of control that do not need
constant maintenance.
Various experiments were carried out in Portugal
in an effort to arrive at a satisfactory control
of malaria in thericefields.The attempt was
made to provide surrounding barriers of animals
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