The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-06-12
THE MOSQUITO, MUST GO SAYS
UNCLE SANS ABLE SCIENTISTS

/ Hio4 ( mosquitoes IN the New YORK sum-
mer resorts.
The decree has gone forth. and even
the New Jersey mosquito must surren-
der to the onslaughts of small fishes
and kerosene.
! The Agricultural Department has re-
ceived the information that a number
of summer resorts in the vicinity of
New York City are taking measures
for the wholesale destruction of mos
quitoes.
Some of the places where this anti
mosquito crusade mas begun are Center
Island, Summit, South Orange, n. j.,
and Flushing and Richmond Hill. l. 1.
| 1t has recently been discovered that
mosquitoes are not only annoying, but
dangerous. An English doctor has
| demonstrated that these little pests
are active instruments in the spread Of
malaria His discovery cost him a Sc
were attack of malarial fever, as in one
tof his experiments he allowed himself
to be bitten by mosquito which had
previously bitten a man who was suf-
fering from malaria
Prof. L. o. Howard. the distinguished
entomologist of the Agricultural De-
partment, from whom the Sunday
World obtained this information, says:
The local officials and citizens are
about TO do what 1 suggested in my
bulletin of last summer
There are three ways by which mos
Equitoes may be absolutely exterminated
,I-by the thorough drainage of all
swamps and breeding places by the
introduction of small fishes into all
! Tn nd Inv he Z ont OE
, pools by kerosene. Any one of these
methods Will be successful without the
iuse of the others.
THE quantity of kerosene to be used
. is approximately. one ounce to fifteen
Isquare feet of water surface, and ordin-
arily the application need not be re-
] newed for one month. Two localities
were rid of the mosquito plague by the
, use of kerosene alone.
Experiments on a large scale have
been made by the Rev. John D. Long
lat Oak Island Beach, Long Island
Sound, and Mr.. ". r. Hopson near
Bridgeport, Conn, also on the shores of
Long Island Sound. The experiments
|, in both cases indicated the efficacy of
the remedy when applied intelligently.
, ON ponds of any size the quickest
and most perfect method of forming a
film of kerosene viii be TO spray the oil
; over the surface of the water.
AT relatively Slight expense coun-
try club on Staten Island has during
one season practically stopped the
breeding of mosquitoes in ponds and
marshes in the vicinity by the use of
: kerosene alone. This substance has al
so been used with good effect by the
Town Improvement Society at Sum
: nit. n. J.. in woodland pools and
swamp land. The remedy. which de-
} ponds upon the draining of breeding
places, needs no extended discussion.
Experiments conducted by c. H. Rus
sell, of Bridgeport, Conn. show that
while a fshless lake contained tens OF
thousands of mosquito larvae, a lake
containing fish had no larvae. The
common fish known as ''sticklebacks, >
active and voracious. are recommended
as especially adapted for Riding ponds
of mosquitoes. Most small fishes are
also considered valuable for destroy
ing mosquito larvae.
MOSQUITOES AND MALARIA
Don't let mosquito bite you.
At any rate, be sure it does not belong
to the genus anophele.
Or, if by chance you should permit a
mosquito OF dnOpnele type 10 present
its bill, take precautions that it is not a
female
1t may mean malaria
A plague of mosquitoes has just brok-
en- out in South Carolina. With it has
come an epidemic of malaria
The same result follows the same
cause everywhere.
In every section where the mosquito
manffests itself there is sure to be ma
laria. The New Jersey mosquito is not
only an annoyance: ii is a danger. Or
Long Island, where mosquitoes appear il
\ abundance, maIarial fever is apt to &C
- company them.
The mosquito season is just beginning
So is the outing season Every one
knows that mosquitoes swarm in Great
er New York in the early spring anC
summer There is scarcely a summer re
It sort along the coast which is free from
e, the pest
re By taking ordinary precautions, how
ic ever. one may free himself from tn
danger of malarial fever.
te Chosen eshed screens on the doors an,
lie windows, kerosene oil on stagnant waite
near the house, win stave off malaria.
NO MOSQUITO, NO MALARIA.
Malarial infection cannot take plac
where the mosquito is barred, Malari
is one of the most dangerous of diseases
The mosquito-malaria idea is now a
acknowledged scientific fact. It is not
theory. Mosquitoes, and they alone, ar
the principal transmitters of the disease
Malaria is a specific disease has bee
J known since 1880, when DR.. Charles Loui
Alphonse Laveran, a French Algerian
discovered it It is one of the most pc
culiar diseases known to medical sci
ence.
A little parasite gets into the blood ii
self and feeds upon the red blood cor
- puscles.
Under the microscope these parasite
III may be seen in various stages of devel
4 oprnent They cause the characteristic
l chill which attends malarial fever.
blood be kept on a warm surface whic
has the same temperature as the huma
blood the malaria bug may be seen t
grow and prosper before ones eyes.
A singular phenomenon is the fact tina
the blood on the warming stage Of tn
microscope manifests the same change
which take place in the blood OF the pa
tent from whom it has been extracted.