The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-06-19
FIGHTING FEVER
In E;aly Dy p'eading Mas 60
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THE Deadly MOSQUITO.
This Wonderful Disc ovrri:s ct
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A dispatch from Rome says sirsDge
land to see is the Roman Campsg1a
nowadays.
Since it has been determined thst
this famous territory has bssn the
sprasder Of the curse Of the world, ma
lsris. for so many centuries, entirely
| te,ause Of the mosquitoes with which
it is infested, a vase quarantine hiss
been declared agsiust tle bloodthirsty
insects.
The entire Campagna is wrapped in
netting.
This is done no! merely because the
Inhabitants want to do it, but because
the Government has forced many 20 do
it by edict. They are not permitted
to sleep except under mosquito netting;
may pot labor in ths fields except with
pet,ed hesddresses and gaunslets to
protect their arms AID hands; every
| sperture Of Their houses, even the
chimreyS, must be covered with metal
lie netting.
These laws have a double end. First
they are designed to protect the ineivid-
uals themselves and save them from
getting the malaria through the bites
Of tie sq1itoss; geooodly, the laws
are enforced becau 10 it is held that
every individual that gets the di5esse
is a walking source Of propagation Of
tbs soourge and that any law that will
protect mis- neignbors is just;6sbls.
Those who suffer from the disease al
resdy are not privileged. They must
dwell uoder netting like the others,
and, in addition, tie State is putting
them through a rigorous course Of trest.
mept for the complaint, dosing them
with decoctoins Of Peruvian bark, iron,
arsenic and other specifies.
In the Csnpsgpa now folks shut
themselves up in their nosQuito-pyoof
houses at sundown, and they DO not
stir abroad after that ex,ep: on urgent,
business, and then only thoroughly
covered, with wells aud gloves.
The rigorous observance Of these
rules is necessary. Readers Of the
Sunday Press will remember the srti-
Gle in an issue some months ago, IN
which this terrible Roman Campagna
was described as a land Of almost sure
death, where the laborer5 era Rled around
like yellow corpses and where hardly
any inhabitsnt could hope to escape
the plague of malaria. Sooner or Ia er
it was bound to catch him and kill him
or leave him wreck for the rest of his
Wretched life.
1t is a queer experience to travel
over the railroads that run through the
qusrantiDei districts now. Thcce is
not peep hole in cars, waiting rooms,
signal towers or flag stations thai IS
left uncovered. The dagmen, the con-
ductors and braksmen, the station mas
ters and the baggage sma:hess all sre
veiled and have their arms il gauntlets
that reach to the elbows.
All along the line Of the road you see
curious mpflsd figures ploughiEg and
following other sgricu(tursl pursuits,
astired as If for purpose cf disguise.
Your fellow passengers sre SC h;d6eu
behind their wells that you cannot for
the life Of you a single fsc:. Even
the oxen IN some Of the feds are
sRathed in the stuff. an3 they lo9k odd
enough as they stalk along msieslicsl-
ly with yards and yards Of gauze net
ting hanging Oh them. It makes one
think this old.fashioned parlors in
New England farm houses in fly tiDe,
when the furniture was covered awful
ly and mystericusly with the sane kind
Of gauze
Employees Of the railroad are
watched carefully to see that they do
not violate sny Of the sanitary rules.
Officials examine each laborer and wsrn
him to take care that he is properly
veiled. T doors Of all waiting rooms
are protected with double doors, which
close alternately and automatically.
It is laid or the inhabitants OF the
Jampagna everywhere to be Vigllant to
painful degree. They are asked,
whenever even single mosquito man
ages to penetrate into their houses, to
drop al other occupations, whatever
they may be- sld not to rest until they
have killed the wicked thing. 1t may
have in its sting the death Of a part or
even all Of the household. To make
the destruction of mosquito interloper
more easy every bit Of wall in every
part of the railroad properties is painted
a dead white.
The discovery that it is the nosqui.
to that transmits mslsris, and the sub
sequent discoveries due to the expert.
nents Of Dr.. Ross and others, and the
tests carried on in the Roman Cam
| pagna first announced to the public in
the Sunday Press from time to time.
The discovery is of worldwide iupos
tspce, but in Italy, the classic land Of
the mslaria"- malaria, bad air, as
the words c.eri; stion incorrectly sug-
gests-it amounts to national lind.
| In the S,2l7 comm7nes OF the King
dom malaria takes he .vey annual tri-
butte from 1888. Eve,y year 1000
| 600 working people, chiefly agrloul-
tural, ere attacked by the periodic
fevsrs. Indeed, the mas5cia Of their
native land is one of tae principal
causes Of the enormous emigration of
Italians.
Up to yesterday, almost, itl
imsgined-Erom the earliest 4ha-
that the ra!udel, or marsh fever, vas
due to poisonous gases arising from
swamp ground from tie decon position
Of organic matter. The celebrated D..