The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-05-20
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it every year. OF these 1900 die and
this is an enormous number considering
I that we have a specific treatment for
this fever-7.75 for every 1000 attacked.
1T is in the centre of the delectable
! locality that I've described" the doctor
continued, that We shall settle in
the portable mosquito proof house that
is now being made by 4 firm of iron
workers after a plan furnished by the
| Government
1t is Of wood, with a roof that over
| hangs about three feet, to protect the
! windows from the suns rays. the floors
covered with an inodorous felting, and the
windows. doors. chimneys, ventilators
and ali other openings protected with
! mosquito netting made of wonderfully
| thin wire. The doors can be shut twice
as quickly as an ordinary door.
THE house has two bedrooms, a sit
ting room, kitchen and Iavatory 1t
| win be kept in order by two Italian
/ servants that we have recruited from
the neighborhood. We shall get our
water from the wells near by. boiling it
to avoid dysentery-water never conveys
malaria
We shall visit the people of the Cam
pagna, and not only treat. but study
them In fact, they are a part Of our
plan We shall be in direct contrast
against mosquitoes, they none. They are
fun Of malaria; if We escape there is
another point gained. Then we shall
study the life history Of the mosquito
himself. about which far too little is
known.
And this is not the only string to our
bow Of experiment Even should we
come out in health after six months in
that wretched place. some people might
say that we had shut out some other
cause Of malaria in guarding against the
mosquito. So We will make another
test
You understand Of course. that not
every mosquito carries malaria; that a
mosquito 10 be dangerous in this way
must first have bitten a malaria 2atient
ana drawn the germ from him: also that
this germ goes through a certain evolu-
ton in the stomach Of the mosquito be-
fore it is Injected into another human
being That period usually IS about thirty
DAYS
WV We SAlaA EGI some mosquitoes
eggs and raise insects from them. When
they are fully grown thirty or forty Of
them viii be allowed 70 bite malaria
pauent-one suffering from only mild
form OF the disease. Then these insects
viii be FED on vegetable matter until the
Serm has been nutured in their bodies
and they will be sent by mail to Eng
land. There is no malaria there.
"The mosquitoes VIII arrive hungry
and viii be turned loose IN a room where
there viii be sleeping several students
who have never been out OF England. II
those students actually show symptoms
OF the disease-and we believe that thev
viii in ten days or Sour argument
viii be proved beyond a quihble The
light form Of fever that they VIII ex-
hihit can easily be cured with quinine"
The Campagna is low region that
stretches from Rome 10 the sea. From
time inmemorial Il has been famed for
its malaria. The very word originated
there. The deadly region begins seven
miles from Rome. Down TO few years
ago IL used 20 make the city itself deadly
20 northern people in summer. but tha:
is much improved nov Beneath the
Campagna IS an inpanetrab'e LAYER ot
volcanic matter. and this has held The
malaria germs f7r countless ages. L Is
filed with staSnant pools that are Jed
by the neIClr5oring mountains.
Most OF the inhabitants i've On TIE