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League of Nation Malaria Investigation Committee, Punjab, India. A typical "tank" in a village, showing water buffalos who spend most of the sunshine hours here as there is no nearby mud wallow. There "tanks" are used by water buffalos, because these animals, lacking sweat glands, could not otherwise stand the noonday heat. The result is a high malaria rate in the village

League of Nation Malaria Investigation Committee, Punjab, India. A typ...

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Water buffalos of Roumania. When you get to Roumania you are into the Orient, with its color and its Eastern atmosphere. In Roumania, for example, you first run across the water buffalo of the east. This is a land of strange contrasts. The water buffalo may be seen in dragging a plow. While in the adjoining farmland some enterprising chap is trying out a baby tractor. In the streets of Bucharest, great white oxen with sweeping horns drag rude peasant wagons along utterly indifferent to the honking of automobiles that may be either American, German, French, or Italian, or the well known flivver of the U.S. which has become international. In many sections of Roumania the transportation crisis has become so acute that yokes of oxen are extremely valuable in hauling needed supplies. It was the transportation tie-up, caused by depreciation of railroad equipment, that added to the country's misery and made American Red Cross relief supplies, brought in with whatever means of transportation offered itself, very welcome

Water buffalos of Roumania. When you get to Roumania you are into the ...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC, Official Red Cross Photo. Group title: Roumania. Gift; American National Red... More

League of Nation Malaria Investigation Committee, Punjab, India. A typical "tank" in a village, showing water buffalos who spend most of the sunshine hours here as there is no nearby mud wallow. There "tanks" are used by water buffalos, because these animals, lacking sweat glands, could not otherwise stand the noonday heat. The result is a high malaria rate in the village

League of Nation Malaria Investigation Committee, Punjab, India. A typ...

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 Divisi... More