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mosquito carry and anyone who keeps MOSQUITOES away
safe from the disease believe that Honolulu do great deal in
this matter II all people will cooperate The city least might be rid
the pests and they do breed rice and fields outside they
there for the mosquito lives and dies where he is born.
The epidemic abang according my experience The
number Of cases called to attention this week less than last Dr.
AVG I @ one 81 i e lever lSeI ana says he mas
no taste tor another though many people have more than The
doctor called attention to study OF the disease by Dr. Harris Graham
Professor OF Pathology of the American College Byrouh Syria
published in the Medical Record New York The article the
following regarding the fever:
Although the literature Of dengue quite voluminous and large
number OF valuable reports have been made OF different epdem
from that of Java Cairo and Alexandria, 49, that of the
end of the Mediterranean in Set nothing definite has been
tanned with regard either mode of propagation pathology
number of auopses have been made but definite anatomical
matte Infection but since the epidemic 1880 strong opinion has
vailed among those who given the careful
tl study Of the Whole literature m saving that belongs TO den con-
but that the contagon requires for its propagation certain masmac
Influences and without these the conagion powee spread
The rapdi with which dengue spreads from house
other after entering city and from member OF family another
having once entered the household shows that must be highly conta-
giou See During Denguefeber Constannop Monat
sete fur prakische Dermatooge 1890 S 10 f. Maize article
Dengue Encyclop Mordmann,
Skoowe and oers On the other hand the inability the disease
spread when introduced other regions than those which the
mmc conditions favorable has forced many accurate observers
the East and in America the conclusion that is contagious
but masmaic infection. (See Orensen Eur DengueFrage
Deutsche medcnsche Wochenschrt 1890 q
Reaency opad 1885, " Chsochoos in Smyrna A. Hirsch and
others There great multiplicity of evidence show that does
not spread to any extent when carried away from certain owyng re-
which its avOte abode kpidemcs in Cuba jamaica East
Indies Reunion Martinique and Madagascar all to show that i'll
spite OF the most active communcauoI dn2ue cannon spread 10 any
when carried into dry and high places in the interior These
epdemcs have shown time and again at people come cow" rom
these higher and drer places contract the disease ana ten nave
break them their homes which they have returned and
there lie smen with for several days without the other inmates OF
the household catching it. Up to the present time no logical Nana
has been offered by which reconcile these two theories
its propagation the masmaic and the other contagious
Early IN July OF the yea" 1901 the city Oh eytoun III :I1 N
by epidemic of dengu 1t began slowly but as increased
city outlying villages During this epidemic which has
houses the city have escaped and usually
has found The epidemic has been typical one the
lasting from three eight days rarely ten or twelve and as
passed away produced eruption
marked In considerable proportion OF the cases On my own
practice cent? there has been after certain TO NJ
without eruption and Of the cases has the patient been en-
rey attacks The eruption in the first attack has
been the rule and there marked DISSEMINATION from about
half the during the epidemic several well marked
third attacks the patient in case having fully recovered himself be-
tween attacks description this epidemic would differ partc
way the classical given by Manson and Others
g" saw something epidemic which prevailed on the Syrian
coast in 1880 and nv experience had been able to
study of the OF similar epdenc by others
had lead me to believe that link would together the two
regard the propagation OF the disease was to be found
mosquito believed that the mosquito was the condition or
necessity make the disease portable from one individual "
another
The city Beyrou peculiar advantages for study Of this
kind It is situated on cape almost peninsula might say, with
behind it on one side and irrigated mulberry orchards the
The Lebanon Mountains rise almost directly from the limits
the city, reahng places elevation OF feet The slope facing
toward evrouh is dotted with villages and around them the ground
terribly with mosquitoes Professor Day. OF the department OF
natural in the college has found among them only certain
forms of the culex villages the mountain side contain
certain mosquitoes which also only the cueX Some
the villages in the drier parts have none
beginning of the epidemic commenced series OF expert
ents determine possible whether the cueN which exists
perfect swarms in the city could carry the dengue from person "
person
experiment done with mother and her nursing
with the initial chill all the
part the house killed by generating chlorine gas
AS she changed from another the rooms
ridden OF the bV chlorine and net
windows others from entering The child which
eight months old allowed to nurse from the mother during the
whole OF the fever and was constantly her % care was
keep away mosquitoes for days after the temperature
6tl do,