The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-12-09
The MOSQUITO As
AN ISLAND PEST
Its Danger to the Health of the Community
and the Measures Approved by Scientific
Men to Eradicate II.

The most important feature of N
monthly meeting of the Hawatia,
Medical Association was the paper req
by President Sloggett on the mosouit,
pest, with special application to Ho
nolulu and Hawaii. Other business
was decision to give a banquet to RI,
medical profession on the 10th of Ian
uary, and the adoption of memoria
OF the late DR.. Oliver. Following is
/, DR.. Sloggett's paper:
Gentlemen: 1t seems to be custo,nar =,
| Tor the newly elected president of tn,
society to read a paper or address or
MS first occupying the chair. so in 40.
cordance with that custom I desire to.
night to draw your attention briefly r.
| the question of the mosquitoes. which
| interfere so greatly with our comfort ri
times In Honolulu, and to ask your co.
operation in attempting to awaken nub
tic interest so that the new legislator
| may be induced by the yox ponulj IN
appropriate a few thousand dollars To
enable the health authorities here to DIN
something at least to abate this I'M
necessary pest.
Inc principal cause of the present
VIDE spread interest in the subject of
mosquitoes and mosquito extermina tion
is the perfectly satisfactory proof which
mas been gained during past few years
tnat they are responsible for the trans
mission OF the malarial germ from
H1alarlal patients to healthy people.
The life history of the malarial
parasite of human kind may be briefly
summarized as follows: All the malarial
parasites are protozoans Chat is to say
anlmals) and not bacteria Chat is to
say piants). In the human blood these
PROTOCOL lnhabit the red blood corpus
Time ai inde mt P9ood u fhsy &c tahph0Rgh
auinine or in some other way.
In the red corpuscles the parasite APP
pears as an amoeba which gradually
grows until it nearly fills the interior
of the capsule, digesting the red color
ing matter of the blood and forming
as the result of the digestion pigment
spots in it's interior. On reaching fuli
growth, the nucleus of the amoeba SUBJ
divides. each division gathering about
itself a certain amount of protoplasm,
until instead of a single amoeba the
corpuscles contain a large number OF
spores. The walls of the corpuscle then
break and the spores are liberated into
the blood serum.
From a single infection this sporu-
lation or liberation of the spores taxes
place practically simultaneously, ana
marks the beginning of the malarlal
spasm.
The three different kinds of malaria
in which the fever recurs every two
DAYS known as tertian malaria, that IN
which the fever recurs every three days
known as uuartan malaria, and the
severe autumn fever, known as aestlVo
-autimnal fever or tropical malaria
by far the most dangerous OF the three
are by some writer's supposed 10 DE-
| caused by distinct species OF parasites
/ This view, however, is not generaliS
held. but at all events the period OF de-
yelopment of the sporulating stage OF
the organism differs in length OF tifne
| as we all know it often happens ina
| the malarial fever or chill VIII fecul
every day. That means in tertlan ma
laria that there has been relnfectloi
ON one of the alternate days, the de
| velopment of the amoeba being con
slant in point of time one set sporulat
ing twenty-four hours after the othe
set. ,us
1t is just as the speculation occurs
lust as the spores are liberated lnu
the blood serum-just as the malaria
snasm is about to begin, that the al
ministration of quinine is most eIIec
tive. c,,b
4t,.ela a6
+entiou of Surgeon General Sternber
more strongly than ever to the suoJec
Of yellow fever although he had 10
many years been an investigator Oh ~
, disease and a believer in the mosqult
theory. and in 1900 a commission
army surgeons was appointed to lnves
tigate the disease, from the mosqui'
standpoint.
,issin,, have been published from tim
80 tir,oa in the medical journals an
were both positive and striking. ne
arc presented in a paper to the Pal
American Congress held IN HaVah
February, 1sOl.
,arized under eleven heads.
The Mosquito.-Culex Fasclatl
oa,,s as the intermediary host for II
Inarasite of yellow fever !,
2. yellow fever is transmitted TO u
non-immune undeveloped by means
tha bite of the mosquito that has pr
n viously fed on the blood of those si'
i, with this disease.
- An interval of about twelve da,
:, ~ more after contamination appears
J. he necessary before the MOSQUITO
capable of conveying the infection,
i. The bite of the MOSQUITO at =
: earlier period after contamination do
not appear to confer any immuni
against a subsequent attack.
yellow fever can be experimental
,4,,cad nv the simultaneous infectl'
If blood taken from the general eirc
lation during the first and second da
of the disease. -,
6 An attack of yellow fever produ
: ed by the bite of the MOSQUITO GO
"a fers immunity against the subseque
or +I1a blood of an indlNlQu