ith d&r&on by `tierIch btatlea.

dliii~ `attacf;b at Genevei .tit.~the
owder \could ki?l ,typhus~~,Wce.
At pqesent DDT &J qmde :Py +ve&
ompanles in thls country. One o@heb
lone h& manufacture4 enorigh t&pro-
ect inore than' 80,WKMOb pi&WIG

gainat :typhus for oneimonth, A& St111
he supply is sufficient only f+- `the

rmed -f&es.  A small amount,?how;
ver, L reserved for agricultural We.
hli4lly $0 Insecte

DDT la harmless by itself.  kVhen

hti tid `tiui~~ 4. Rikhl.
wae th `fly a medical a

typhti ~terial fmm C&p to N$plei~
Army! B&tIes !CypIide '    ,:
Bi @Jr 26 the fight &net Zyphu

wfis oq.7, A&iv8 caee6 weri located ant
treated $nd whole famili~pi tid/ thei
relatideg xnd friends, wore ,duated; witl
the lothe-killer. But this `wae ox& th
beginni?g. The biggest t&k of aii wa
the delousing of the entire powl&.ion
Posters / Fd the press Inv&d peopl
to vIei& none of forty delousing statIon
where be powder waa blown" lnt
troumrsi and ekirb, aleeven, c&m
tucks, folde. and Beam& Nobody wa
asked to strip. About 68,dOO li ti:
were tlma handled. By Januaq, XjSOO,
000 had been thus pIptected loi fiv
weeka and by the end ' of .Februnr
the number of new cams tli3crroe&
bad dwindled to ah-no& nothlr.~.

This department in o6t ipilF $ ti- gf
so far aa some do'in- h&&g-UDTJ iis 1
discovery lcomparable with the &lfm
omtdes 4d per&u but &I& @I- no
doubt in ita mind that it marks t&e be
ginning ai a new era In the caw.6
agricult&al and,hoiraehcrld lxueat peat
and of infections spread by mo@ultor
lfce end floss. `We ahall hear mdre o
DDT when the time comes to dlslnfec
the Euroljean continent and check th
spread of typhus...