The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-05-28
STARTLING EXPERIMENT.


The first step was TO md the deadliest
place on the globe. That proved TO be
the Roman Campagna, where no man can
stay on a summer nisn. NV witnon. .h sdnn vVn,
| School of tropical Medicine, recently es-
| tabished by the Colonial office, two vol
nnteers were chosen for the mission-Dr, .s DIT
was to build "A mosquito proof house
which the men could take with them. and
in which they will stay In the hours
when the malaria bearing mosquitoes are
about.
II the two men manage 10 live and keep
their health where no one else has sue
ceeded In doing so, and yet nave no ad-
vantage over the others except protec-
tion against mosquitoes, then the case
against the mosquito VIII be considered
complete and the government VIII set
about prosecuting the pest wherever he
exists I'm the colonies. and VIII give all
possible assistance 10 other countries TO
do the same. with the expectation that
malarial fever will be wiped out and
some millions of human lives saved every
year, remarks the London Express.
when questioned concerning the cam
pagna, DIR. Mason said: 1T Is stretch
OF low country some seven miles from
Rome, and known To all experts on the
subject OF disease as the deadliest spot
In the world IL consists of rolling
waste or barren soil, dotted with occa-
sional patches of stubble and with pools
OF stagnant water that comes from the
mountains and volcanic hills round about.
Here mosquitoes abound.
ITO compare the mortality OF the Cam
pagna with that of other unhealthy
Is practically uninhabited. In the hills
live poor race of folk who raise cat
tie, and these men come down TO the
Campagna in the spring and plant crops.
IL is when they return In the fall TO reap
their harvest, not rich one, that they
contract the malaria that Kills them of
In shoals. On the Campagna itself, too,
IA few poor wretches live, or live as long
as the country let's them-every one OF
them with swollen skins, bulging eyes
and enlarged livers, every one wasting
away with disease. They exist I'm miser
able huts built of mud and matched with
grass.
DR. l.. w. Sambon was found at the
Natural History Museum, I'm South Ken
sngton. surrounded by a wonderful array
OF botanical specimens, with which he
MY companion and 7 feel Just like
guinea pigs" he said You know we are
going over there simply TO be expert
mented on: we shall not be allowed TO
take any auinine or other precaution
against illness-ony against mosquitoes.
We are TO mix freely with the people in
the campagna, and practically all OF
them have malaria. They are trying 10
reclaim some OF the less infested parts
of the plain. and these people are the la
borers. They're not ltalians-Italians re-
fuse to go there-but peasants from Nor
mandy and the South of France. who
come there. great. strong. lusty fellows
but last only little while, dying, or be-
coming so weak with disease that they
have 10 go home. And they never get
we'll That's the worst OF malaria II
comes on slowly. clings To man. and
when II finally goes, leaves him open 10
all sorts of diseases. In Italy two mil
S,sen ,9n suep from e every year on these
nous number, considering that We have
specific treatment for this fever-775
for every thousand attacked