Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1902-08-04

and flies are said to be responsible for
the increase in the number of cases
and of deaths from typhoid fever and
malaria.
Last week there were Sc new cases
and ten deaths reported to the Board
of Hath, while during the previous
week there were 46 new cases and
five deaths.
There is very decided increase
in the typhoid fever epidemic" said
a prominent physician in West Phil
adelphia, "and I am confident that the
great swarms of insects that have in
tested this section of the city this
summer are largely responsible for
the spread of the disease
How can the flies and mosquitoes
be exterminated or kept from the
house? Well, exterminating them
may be contract most too large for
the average citizen, but at least the
her home. Keep the window and
door screens tightly closed and the
house darkened; it will not only make
your house cooler, but will do more
toward freeing the house from flies
than anything else.
How to Rid House of Flies.
after each meal close the windows
of the dining room to within about six
inches from the sill and draw the
shade down to the edge of the sash.
Begin at the back of the room and
brush the flies out, then put in your
screens and keep the room dark. Do
this with each room in your house and
you will find it is the commonsense
way of getting rid of flies. AS for the
mosquitoes, don't leave stagnant
water around in the yard or drains"
DR.. Henry Skinner, secretary of the
American chronological society,
said:
The popular belief is that mosqui-
toes transmit typhoid fever germs. So
naturally, if there is a typhoid fever
epidemic, as there is, in West Phila-
delphia, which has been infested with
mosquitoes, the two would be aSsoci-
ated as the result and the cause of the
American war many lives were lost in
the American army by typhoid fever.
This was due to flies and the imper-
feet sanitation and policing Of the
camps.
''At this season of the year great
care should be taken of the sanitary
condition Of the house and adjacent
n G
should be drained Water should not
be allowed to stagnate, even an old tin
can with several inches Of stale water
becomes breeding place for mos
quitoes. One female mosquito will
lay 5000 eggs, which will hatch in
about three days. The life Of the
mosquito is exceedingly interesting,
as told by L. o. Howard in his work
on the subject"
Here DR.. Skinner brought Mr.. How
ards book from his library, of which
the following is an extract:
1.-THE life history of the maIarial
parasite of human kind may be brief
ly sunni, arized as follows: All Of the
malarial parasites are protozoans;
terra; that is to say plants. In the
human blood these protoza in
habit the red blood corpuscles and in
the blood they go through a sporula-
ting existence, which may continue
indefinitely unless checked by quinine
or in some other way.
"In the red corpuscles the parasite
Of
ually grows until it nearly fills the in
terror Of the corpuscles, digesting APP
parently the red coloring matter of
the blood and forming, as the result of
this digestion, pigment spots in it's in
terror. On reaching full growth the
nucleus Of the amoebula sub-divides,
each division gatherin about itself
a certain amount of protoplasm until
instead of the single amoebula the
cOrpuscle contains large number of
spores.
"The walls of the cOrpuscles then
break, and the spores are liberated
into the blood serum. From a single
infection this speculation or liberia
ton of the spores takes place practi
beginning of the malarial spasm.
'"There are three different kinds of
malaria, that in which the fever recurs
every two days, known as tertian ma
laria; that in which the fever recurs
every three days known as quartan
malaria, and the severe autumn fever
known as aestilo. Autumnal fever
or tropical malaria, by far the most
dangerous of the three, are by some
writer's supposed to be caused by a
distinct species of parasites. This
view is not held by others. But at all
events the period of development of
the sporulating stage of the organism
differs in length of time
"The sexual generation of the para
site takes place anywhere outside of
the human body-in the stomach of
mosquitoes of the genus culex, or,
presumably, of other biting insects,
but it is only in the stOmachs of the