The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1901-06-21
In Italy py ep ,eadIng No,s TO
Kaep OUT the PIague,
TIE DEADLY MOSQUITO.
The Wonderful Discoveries Of
Dfs Boss, R4sori, Law.
Gran, Bignam'. GassIa.
nelii and Orassi.

nowadays
Sinoo it has boon determined that
this famous territory has been the
spreader Of tho ourSo Of tho world, ma.
lsrie, tor so many oonturios, oDtiroly
be ,auso Of tho mosquitoes with which
it is infested, vase quaranIinD has
hoen declared against tao blood.hirsty
| inscots
The ontiro Uampagna is wrapped in
noting.
This ia dono not morely because tho
inhabitants want to do it, but bcoauao
tho Government has forced many TO do
it by cdiot. They are not permitted
to sleop excapt under mosquito noting;
may not labor in tho fields cxoept with
nctscd hoaddresseo and gauntiets to
protoot thoir arms aud hauds; oycry
aperture of thor houses, even the
ohimncys, must be covered with moiai-
lio netting,
Those laws have double ond, First
thoy are designed to protect tho jndivd
uals themselves and save thom fcom
getting tho malaria through the bites
o. the mosquitoes; secondly, Tho laws
arc enforced bccau 10 it is hold that
every individual that gets tho disease
lsa walking aouroo Of propagation Of
tho aoouvgo and that any law that will
protect Ills neignbor is 1ustifi sble.
Those who suffer from tho disease al
ready are not privileged. They mu 3t
dwell undor noting like tho others,
and, in addition, tho State is putting
them through rigorous course Of treat,
mont for tho compl aint, dosing thcm
with dooootoins Of Peruvian bark. IRON.
arsenic and other specifics.
In tha Canpagna now folks shut
| them selves up in their mosquito pr oof
houses at sundown, and they do not
stir abroad after that ex,cp. on urgout,
business, and then only thoroughly
covered, with vcils and gloves,
Tho rigorous Observance Of those
rules ia necessary. Read 2rs OF tho
Sunday Press will remember tho arti-
clio jn an issue somc months ago, in
which this terrible roman Campsgna
was described SO a land Of almost sure
daath, where the labor4rs ofn Sled GROUND
like yelloT corpses aud whero hardly
any inhabitant could hopa to escape
the plague Of malaria. Sooner or Ii or
It vas bound to ostoh him and kill him
| or loavo him q wreck for the roat Of his
wrctohed lifo.
1t ls q queer experience to travel
over tho railroads that run through the
quarantined districts now. There ia
not q peep holo in oars, waiting rooms,
signal towers or flag stations that is
left uuc ,vorod. Tho EAgnon, tho con
duotors and brakomen, tho station mas
tors and tho baggage smashors all arc
yoilod and have thoir arms in gauntlots
that roach to tho olbows.
All along tho limo of tho road you SEQ
curious mutfled figures ploughing and
following other agricultural pursuits
attircd as IT for purpose of disguise.
Your follow passengers arc 80 hidden
behind their voils that you cannot for
tho lifo Of you SO single face. Even
tho oxen in aomo Of tho folds aro
swathcd in tho stuff, anl thcy look odd
enough as they stalk along mujostioal-
ly with yards and yards Of gauzo not
ting hanging on them. 1t makos ono
think of tina old fashioned parlors in
| Now England farm houses in fly timo.
whom the furniture was oovorod awful
| ly and mystoriously with tho same kind
OF gauzo
Employees Of tho railroad are
watohod carefully to SEQ that thoy do
not violate any Of tho sanitary rulos.
Officials examine oaoh laboror and warn
him to take caro- that ho is proporly
yelled. Il Q doors Of all waiting rooms
arc protootod with double doors, which
closo alternately and automatically.
/ ia laid A. 81 T. n
Campsgna everywhere to be vigilant to
q painful degree. rhoy arc asked
Whenever ovon single mosquito man
agcs to penetrate into their houses, to
drop all othor occupations, whatever
they may bo, and not to rest until they
havc killed tho wicked thing. It may
have in it's sting the death Of part or
ovon all of the household. TO mako
tho destruction of mosquito intorlopor
moro easy ovory bit Of wall in ovcry
part of tho railroad properties is painted
a dead white.
The discovery that it 10 tho mosqui.
to that transmits malaria, and tho sub
scquent discoveries duo to tho expert.
mcnts of DR.. Ross aud othors, and tho
tests carried on in tho Roman Gam.
pagna frat announced to the public in
tho Sunday Prcss from time to time.
The discovery is of worldwide impor
tanco, but in I.aly, tho classic land OF
tho msl slaria - malaria, "bad air." as
the words derivation incorrectly sug.
ges!B-i it amounts to national find
La tho 8,2l7 oommuncs Of tho King
dom malaris takes ho ,vcy annual tri.
butte from 1888. Every year 1000
900 working pooplo, chiefly agrloul-
tural, arc attacked by tho periodic
fcyers. Indeed, tho malaria Of thor
native land is ono Of tho princi oal
causes Of tho enormous emigration Of
Italians.
Up to yostcrdsy, almost, it had been
imagined from the earliest limos
that the paludel, or marsh fovcr, VA
duo to poisonous gases arising from
swamp ground from tho decomposition
OF organic matter. Tho celebrated Dr..
Raaori, having conceived tho proabil
Ivy OF o parasitic origin for it, tho idea
rapidly gained ground All over tn
world, in Elropo, North and Soutl
America, Aftica and India, soion.ifi
mcdiial mon began Investigations, o.
which tho readers Of tho Preps 20,
ncws from time to time. Franco claims
that Df. llavoran, until rcoontly q pro
fcssor at Van do.graoo, wsB tho frat
in 1880, to find in the blood Of malaria
patients traces Of a parasitic which he
called the homatoz )airo Of marsh feyor
| La 1884 DR., Manson demonstrated