The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1902-05-24
MOSQUITOES AND MALARIA,

SlSCence VI the people OF the dls'
trict, except in instances so rare
as not to affect the statement.
= 2. Every case of malaria, not {
: relapse or an importation into 4
: district, is evidence of an avoid
0 able crime against humanity il
some or all of its interests and
against the fair name of some oil
the most beautiful sections of the
land.
D 8. That in greater degree than
t smallpox is malaria a crime, for
the latter reaches more persons
and its effects are more pervasive.
Some high authorities are urging
the imprisonment of smallpox pa
tients as criminals.
4. Mosquitoes are the interme-
, diaries in spreading malaria be-
tween malarials and healthy
persons.
CThe most recent of the now
numerous combinations of this
thoroughly established conclusion
comes from the progressive Japan
ese; q battalion of soldiers in For
mosa was completely protected
from mosquitoes for 161 days
during tho malarial season. It
entirely escaped the disease. An
unprotected battalion at the same
place had 259 cases of malaria.
The New York Times, comment
ing on the case, emphasizes the
necessity of beginning energetic
campaigns against mosquitoes ia
every place where malaria is pre-
valent. Indeed, to do so is a duty
rather than a need. Malaria is q
most idsidious disease, eveu in its
milder forms, and the annual toll
which it has exacted from human
ity has been enormous. To con-
qner it would be to increase sew
eral times the habitable portion of
the earth's surfacc.)
5. That to improve a section by
bal:ishing malaria and in many
other ways, mosquitoes must be
exterminated.
These conclusions, it is consld-
cred, are deducible by all minds
open to conviction who have OPP
portunily of reading a book just
issued by the North Shore I'm
provement Association, whose
membership extends from Lloyds
Neck to Sands Point, L. l., New
York. At great expense, for the
Iast1six months, a committee of
the ASSOCIATION has been working
lndefatigably upon tqe subject of
discriminating mosquitoes from
their territory, following out the
purposes of the association, as
shown in its name. Several spe-
cialists have been engaged and
prepared exhaustive reports on
the conditions and the methods
and cost of relief. A map 41x58
inches, showing the danger points
of the territory and the kinds and
extent of mosquitoes found, has
been made from actual surveys
and from the latest government
authority, Prof. N. S. Thaier, of
Harvard University, has reported
on the marine marshes and related
subjects; Prof. Davenport and
Mr.. Lutz (biologist) of the Uni
versity of Chicago, each with an
assistant, have made an etomolog-
ical survey, and an engineer in {
economics has made complete t
examination of the Is square /
miles to determine methods, etc. j;
The results, together with brief
account of the successful Center 1
Island Oyster Bay Harbor) work, c
are now In the shape of printed c
report of 125 pages, with accom- t
maps, which 1t is the in =
tention of the committee to shorts
ly place in the hands of tie rep
resentative persons and socletie- a
Of the district. Q
DR.. l.. o. Howard, the Chief o
Entomologist of the Department \
Of Agriculture, has read and en- =
1orsed plans, and his letter to the
committee is inserted as an intro
1uction.
1t is the firm belief of the writ @,
Or, gained from actual experience, u
that this most charming section of :,
Long Island can BIZ freed from y y
mosquitoes within a year and that -
what Is even more important r,
Malaria diseases can be successful .,
y driven out as a result, together :,
With other material benefits as ex- -
blamed in the reports. "
AS the time. however, for be- a,
ginning action for this.seasou's re- ~
ief is at hand, a few practical =
for domestic situations r
lot fully covered by the book, are ),
'iven here: 10
/. Each seasons crop of mos n
uitoes comes from very com -
'aratively few gravld females 81
Which hibernate in cellars, under n,
be covers of cisterns and cesspools r. r.
nd like warm places. Every ii,
n!gle. one of these destroyed means m
proportionate reduction In the -
utput. If all could be DESTROYED 10;
given section in the early su
Dring 1t would be practically free. be
he suggestion is for each house On
older to give an hour, at once, to -