The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1901-06-19
In Italy pY Spreading Ns,s to
Kssp Out tbs Plague.
TIE DEADLY MOSQUITO.
Tho Wonderful Discoveries of
Drs, Boss, Rasori. Law
sran, Rignan', 8astla-
nslli and Qrass;.

this famous territory has been the
sprosder Of the curse Of the world, ma
lsria, for so many centuries, entirely
because Of the mosquitoes with which
1t is infested, vase quarantine has
been declared against the blood hirzty
insects.
The entire Campagna is wrapped in
netting.
This is done not merely because the
inhabitaots want TO do it, but because
tho Government has forced many 20 do
1t by edict. They are not permi ted
to sleep except under mosquito netting
may not labor in the fields except with
uetled headdresses and gaun lets to
| protect their arms ard hands; every
aperture of their houses, evou the
chimuoys, must be covered with metal.
lie netting.
These laws have double ond First
they arc designed to protec. tho iuiivid.
usls themselves and save them from
getting the malaria through the bites
Of che mosquitoes; secondly, the laws
sro enforced becau 10 1t is held that
every individual that gets the disease
is = walking source Of propagation Of
!
| protect mis- neigubors is justifsble.
Those who suffer from the disease al
ready arc not privileged. They mu st
dwell under netting like the others,
and, in addition, the State is putting
them through q rigorous course of treat.
ment for the complsint, dosing them
with decoctoips of Peruvian bark, iron,
arsenic and other specifics.
lu the Canpsgna now folks shut
Themselves up in their mosquito-pIoof
houses at sundown, and they do not
stir abroad after that ex,ep: on urgent,
business, and then only thoroughly
covered, with wells and gloves.
The rigorous Observance of these
rules is necessary. Read srs Of the
| Sunday Press will remember the arti-
Gle in an issue soma months ago, in
which this terrible Roman Csmpagna
was described as land of almost sure
death, where the lsborer5 crawled around
like yellow corpses aud where hardly
any iunapIOsnt could nope 10 escape
the plague of malaria. Sooner or later
1t was bound to catch him aud kill him
or leave him wreck for the rest Of his
wretche1 life.
| 1t is q queer experience to travel
over the railroads that run through the
Guaranteed districts now. There is
not peep hole in cars, waiting rooms,
signal towers or flag stations that is
left uncovered. The 6agmen, the con,
ductors and brakemen, the station mas
ters and the baggage smashers ali arc
veiled and have their arms In gauntlets
| that reach to the elbows.
All along the line of the road you see
curious mutfed figures ploughing and
following other agricultural pursuits,
attired as If for purpose Of disguise.
Your fellow passengers are SO hidder
behind their voils that you cannot FOL
the life of you &c a single facs. Ever
the oxen in some of the fields are
swathed in tho stuff, and they look odd
enough as they stalk along mqjesticsl
ly with yards and yards of gauze net
ting hanging on them. 1t makes one
think of ths old fashioned psrlors ir
New England farm houses in fly time
when the furniture was covered awful
| ly and mysteriously with the same kinC
of gauze
Employees of the railroad ar,
watched carefully to see that they d,
not violate any Of the sanitary rules
Officials examine each laborer and war;
him to take care that he is proper,,
voiled. j doors ofsll visiting room
are protected with double doors, whiol
close alternately and automatically.
1t is laid on the inhabitants of tn,
JSmpagna everywhere to be yigilaut fl
painful dagrce. They are asked
whenever even single mosquito man
ages to penetrate into their houses, I,
drop sll other occupations, whateva
lhoy may be, and not to rest until the
have killed the wicked thing. 1t ms
have in its sting the death Of part G
even all of the household. To max
the destruction Of a mosquito interlopo
more easy every bit of wall in ever
part of the railroad properties is psinte
a dead white,
The discovery that it is the m2squi
to that transmi,s malaria, and the sut
sequent discoveries due 20 the cxpcri
ments of DR.. Ross and others, and b
tests carried on in the Roman Cam
pagna first announced TO tho public /
! the Sunday Press from time to time
The discovery is of world wido impor
, tance, but in Italy, the classic land
'the malaria malaria, bad air." q
tho words derivation incorrectly sup
gcsts-it amounts to national find.
T In tho S,2l7 oOmmunes of the Kini
0 dom malaria takes no .voy aunuSl tr
{ butte from 1888. Every year 2 00t
/. 600 working people, chiefly sgrIou
e tural, are attacked by the period
: feyers. Indeed, the malaria of the
a native land is one Of the princi p
+ csuses of the enormous emigration
z Italians.
9 Up to yesterday, almost, it had bee
3 imagined-from the earliest times
g that the psludel, or marsh fever, ";
d due to poisonous gases arising fro
}. swamp ground from the docompositio
q of organic matter The celebrated ID
o Rssori, having conceived tho proabi
3 ily of PARASITIC origin for it, the id,
rapidly gained ground Ali over Il
world, in Europe, North and Sou
America, Africa and India, soientii
s medical men began Investigations,
IS which tho readers of the Press 2
t news from time to time. France clair
h that DR.. Laversn, until recently pr
II foaaor at Van e.graoe, wss the 6rs
c in 1880, to find in the blood Of malsri
81 patients traces of 2 parasite which
10 called the hematOz Oairo Of marsh fevC
3 la 1884 DR.. Manson demonstrate
10 that the common mosquito (who h
been suspected all alon9 inoculAt