League of Nations Malaria Investigation Committee, Punjab, India. A typical village of the Punjab plains. There is always a tank in the foreground from the mud of which the walls of the village in the background were made. These tanks produce anopheles culicifacies mosquitoes during and immediately after the monsoon. When they become dirty they do not produce anophelinae
Summary
Image source: U.S. Public Health Service, after Dr. L.L. Williams.
Title and other information from print in lot.
Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
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Date
1944
Location
india
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/071_fsab.html