Show Malaria in an South Drops After Mosquito Curbs Malaria used to be one of the scourges of southern United States causing widespread illness and sapping the the vitality of the people This has hns been changed by scientists who have brought under control the mosquitoes carrying the malaria parasites It was reported Thursday at atthe atthe atthe the closing session of the American Ameri Ameri- can Mosquito i Control Associations Association's Associations Association's Associations Association's tion's annual convention in I Hotel Utah that malaria incidence incidence inci inci- incidence dence in the southern states has has has' steadily declined to a point j I where in 1950 only 2227 cases cases cases' were reported Sadi Dr Roy F. F Fritz U. U S. S Public Health Service Communicable Communicable Communicable cable Disease Center Atlanta Ga Approximately third one-third of these cases were appraised and only 30 were confirmed Only six of these appeared to have originated within the United States He said during 1951 cases continued continued continued con con- to decline until soldiers suffering from malaria started returning from Korea Koren but he predicted that the malaria surveillance surveillance surveillance sur sur- and prevention program program program pro pro- gram of the Communicable I I Disease Center should be effective effective tive tie in preventing even local outbreaks originating from returned returned returned re re- re- re turned servicemen The association closed its four- four day convention here with field demonstrations by exhibitors and I Ithe the Utah Utah Mosquito Abatement |