The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1901-06-21
FIGHTING FEVER
IN lsaly py ep ,oadlng Nets se
Kaep ous shs Plague,
THE DEADLY MOSQUITO.
Tho Wonderful Discoveries Of
Dfs. Boss, Rlsori, Law.
Gran, Bignam', sassla.
neltl and Orassi.
neltl and Qrassi,


A dispatch from Rome says a strange
land to 500 is tho Roman Campagna
nowadays.
Sinoo it has boon determined chat
this famous territory has bsen tho
spreader Of tho ourso Of tho world, ma
lhrla, for 80 many oonturios, ontiroly
bo,auso of tho mosquitoes with which
it ia infested, vase quarantine he's
boon declared against tho blood. thirsty
insects.
rho ontiro Uampagna is wrapped in
noting.
This is dono not moroly because tho
Inhabitants want to do it, but beoauso
tho Government has forcod many 10 do
it by edict. They arc not permitted
to sloop except under mosquito noting;
may not labor in tho fields except with
Noted hoaddressco and gauntlets TO
protoot thoir arms and hauds; every
aperture Of thor houses, even tho
ohimnoya, must be oovorod with motal.
lilo noting,
Those laws have double cnd First
thcy aro designed to protcc tho jndivid-
aa's themselves and saws than srou
getting tho malaria through tho bitos
Of tho mosquitoes; secondly, tho laws
are enforced bcosuio it is hold that
every individual that gots tho disease
is walking source Of Propagation Of
tho aoourgo and that any law that will
protect his ncignbora is justif sble.
ThoBo who suffer from the disease al
ready are not privileged. They mu st
dwell uudor noting liko tho others,
and, in addition, tue State is putting
them through rigorous oourso Of treat
ment Tor tho complaint, dosing thom
with dooootoins of Peruvian bark. iron
arsonio and other spooifse SO.
In tho Canpsgna now folks shut
themselves up in thoir mosquito proof
houses Mt sundown, and thoy do not
stir sbroad after that exMp. on urgor,t, :,
business, and then only thoroughly
covered, with wells and gloves.
Tho rigorous Observance of those
rules ia necessary. Road ,rs of tho
Sunday Pross will remember tho arti-
cle in an issue somc months ago, in
which this terrible Roman Campsgna
was dceoribod as p land Of almost sure
death, where tho labor4rs ofa,Glcd around
like yellow corpses and where hardly
any inhabitant GOULD hppo to csoapc
tho plague of malaria Sooner or la.cr
it was bound to oAtoh, him and kill him
or loayo him 4 wreck for tho rost of his
wrct chod lifo.
1t is q quaer experience to travel
over tho railroads that run through tho
Guaranteed districts now. There is
not o peep hole in cars, waiting rooms,
signal towers or flag stations that is
lett uuc ,vorod. Tho lagmon, tho con
duotors and brakemon, the station mas
tors and the baggage smashors all arc
voilod aud havo thcir arms il gauntlots
that roach to tho olbows.
All along tho limo of tho road you SEQ
curious muthed figures ploughing and
following othor agricultural pursuits,
ettircd as If for purpose Of disguise.
Your follow passengers arc 80 hidden
bohind thoir voils that you cannot for
tho life of you $50 single faco. Even
tho oxen in somo Of tho folds arc
swathod in tho stuff, AMI thoy look odd
enough as they stalk along mo- jostioal.
ly with yards and yards of gauzc not
ting hanging on thom. 1t makos ono
think Of tina old fashioned parlors in
Now England farm houses in fly timo.
when tho furniture was covered awful,
ly and mystoriously with the ssmo kind
of gauze
Employees Of tho railroad arc
watched carefully to 500 that thoy do
not violate any Of the sanitary rulos.
Ofii icials examine oaoh laboror and warn
him to take care that no is properly
yelled. Il doors Of all waiting rooms
arc protootod with double doors, which
closo altornstoly and automatically.
It is laid OIL tho inhabitants Of tho
Campagna everywhere to be vigilant to
o painful dogroo. ,rhoy arc asked,
whencvor ovon o single mosquito man
ages to penetrate into thoir houses, to
drop all othor occupations, whatever
thoy may be, and not to rost until thoy
havo killed tho wicked thing. 1t may
have in it's sting the doath Of a part or
ovon. all Of the household TO mako
tho destruction Of mosquito intorlopor
moro easy overy bit Of wall in every
part OF tho railroad properties is painted
dead whito.
The discovery that it 10 the mosqui.
to that Transmits malaria, and tho sub
scquont discoveries duo to tho expert.
monts Of Dr.. Ross ard othors, and the
tosts carried on in tho Roman Cam
pagna frat announced to tho public in
tho Sunday Press from timo to timo.
The discovery is Of world wido impor
tanoo, but in l!aly, tho classic land Of
tho malaria malaria, "bad air." as
tho words derivation incorrectly sug.
gests it amounts to national ''ind !"
In the 8,2l7 communos Of tho King.
dom malaris takes no ,vcy annual tri.
buto from 1888. Every year 1000
900 working pooplo, chiefly agrl oul-
tural, arc attacked by tho periodic
fevers. Indeed, tho malaria Of thoir
native land is ono Of tho prinoi pal
oausea Of tho enormous emigration Of
Italians.
Up to yesterday, almost, it had been
imagined from tho earliest limos
that the paludcl, or march fovcr, wa,
| duo to poisonous gases arising from
swamp ground from The decomposition
Of organic mater. Tho celebrated DR..
! Rasori, having conceived the proabil.
i,y OF a parasittio origin for it, tho idea
gapidly gained ground All over The
world, in Elropo, North and South
America, Afsica and India, soiontfi
mcai 'al mon began Investigations, Of
which tho readers of tho Pross got
nows from limo to timo. Franco claims
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