The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-05-28

.ue uoctors VIII sleep under MOSQUITO net !,
ting 10 make doubly sure
We shall visit the people in the Cam |
pasna, Or. Sambon said, land not only /
treat, but study them. In fact. they are
d part OF our plan. We shall be in direct
contrast to them, We taking all precau- |
uohs against mosquitoes they none They /
are nun OF malaria; if We escape il there
IS another point gained. Then We SHAH
himself, about which far too HttIe ls
known. And this is not the only string
10 our bow of experiment he went on.
Even should we come out in health att
er SIX months in that wretched Mac
some people might say that we had shuf
out some other cause of malaria in i
guarding against the mosquito. So we
VIII make another test You underetana
OF course, that not every mosouito oar
rles malaria, that mosquito to be dan
&c rous in this way must first have bitra1
a inalarla patient and drawn the germ
from him; also that this germ goes
through certain evolution in the stonl-
ach OF the mosquito before il is injected
INTO ANOTHER human being. That period
IS usually about thirty days
Now We shall get some MOSQUITOES,
eggs and raise insects from them When
they are fully grown, thirty or forty of
them will be allowed to bite a malaria
pauent-one suffering from only a mild
FORM OF the disease. Then these insects
VIII be fed on vegetable matter until the
germ mas been nurtured in their bodies
and they will be sent by mail 10 Enp,and
mere Is no malaria here. The mosoui-
toes will arrive hungry, and viii he ser
Tree In a room where there will be sleep
ing several students who have never been
out of England If those students actu-
ANY snow symptoms of the disease and
We believe that they will in ten DAYS or
So our argument will be proved beyond
a qulbDle The light form of fever that
they Will exhibit can easily be cured with
Quinine."
Dr. Sambon is rather a small. stocky.
brlsht-eyed man, with nervous manner
tlon OF knowing tropical diseases from
beginning to end. The doctor SAYS he is
an Italian, but his mother was an Eng
ilshWoman, cousin of Charles Dickens
lie was formerly in the Italian army and
won two medals for bravery in Cologne in
the pestlence of 1854. The accompanying
picture shows him in his uniform, wear
lnS these decorations Later on he was
sent to England to study the British
medical system. His companion, DR.. C
+. Lowe, is near 80 years old and has
| SHOWN so great promise to be remark
ed by DR.. Manson. He has studied IN
Germany and is typically 'canny" Both
men are enthusiastic over the prospect of
ptardlng the mosquito in his lair.
Althoush these are the men who will
actually DEFY malaria to do it's worst
once their precautions against mosquitoes
are taken. Dr. Manson of the Colonial
once Is the genius of the whole under
taking. i asked him yesterday what the.
result OF the test, considered simply from
a business viewpoint, would mean to the
British Government "A most excellent
speculation" he replied but the British
Government will be no more the gamer
/ than America. To you, in Cuba and the
fhlhpplneS, to say nothing of your ma
| larlal districts at home, this object lesson
Will be as valuable az to US in India and
IN Africa; to European nations as we'll
Malaria is the great disease of the
tropics. 1t is the principal cause of sick
| ness and death there, and of social stag
nation. 1t, and practically il alone is the
reason why Africa is the Dark Continent;
why some, in fact, most, of the fairest
ana most fertile regions of the earth arc
Dut ho"llng wildernesses, covered with
| worthless jungle and inhabited only by
wild beasts and a sprinkling of wilder
men. Five millions of people die annual
ly Of fever principally malarial in Brit
ish India alone. That figure, heavy
though 1t is, gives no idea of the amount
of suffering, of invaldism and poverty
caused by this one disease over one
third of our soldiers, European and ma
tive. suffer annually from malaria MANY
other tropical countries are even worse
off. When we describe a tropical country
as unheaithful, we mean that it is ma
larlous. Apart from humanitarian con-
sIderationS, see what this fact means to
our colonies in tropical Africa 1t more
! than doubles the cost Of government
Not long ago | had table prepared
| showing the invading and deaths in 1896
among the Government servants in the
Gold coast. OF 116 European officers 81
were invalided to Europe, 10 died in the
| colony and five of those invaded died
after leaving the colony in consequence
of diseases contracted there Thus be-
tween death and invading, the services
OIL over " per cent of the colonial Off
! Gals We're lost to this Government. The
death rate was about l in 10. To Great
Britain this means-and will mean to the
United States-that, owing to death and
INVADING, two men will have to be en-
ployed TO do the work of one, and that
to induce them to accept such employ
ment these two men have each to get
double pay 1t means that continuity of
work and accumulation of experience,
which are so necessary for successful ad-
ministration are almost impossible. The
Government is robbed of it's best servants
Just as they are becoming valuable. 1t
means an enormous drain on these com
munites. Malaria is a rope about the
neckS of colonies, and the fact that they
continue to exist is testimony to what
might be made of them were this cloud
OF malaria that ever hangs over them
dispelled.
The Colonial Office believes in the new
/ theory, and will push it. Mr.. Chamber
lain is a progressive man-you know he
has an American wife-and SO long he
is in office the work of Kidding our colo
MES from malaria will go on. Then some
old fossil may come in who will say,
Lord Tomnoddy didn't do this 200 years
ago, and it's not worth paying money for
now and then it will drop. That's our
great fault, were too much in the past
I'm glad to see that America is working
in this direction, You bring fresh minds
to what you undertake, and you accom-
piish much. Personally, I don't believe
that the American is any smarter than
the Englishman, but he's more fearless.
The Englishman moves slowly, he's SEN
sitive, afraid of being laughed at. The
American pushes ahead. He is laughed
at for a while, but in the end he arrives,
ana the laughing stops. We expect great
things from America"
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