The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-07-30

uary showed less than 500 for the same
area.
| President Billings of the American
Medical Association, in his introduction
| OF the Reed Memorial Fund, spoke in
part as follows: Major Reed died a
year and a half ago. To the medical
4 world no word is necessary to say of
| Reed to know who he was. The lay
/ public does not know him, and I am
afraid the medical public do not now
/ appreciate all he did. Had Reed, as
Major in the Army, performed an act
/ of conspicuous bravery of equal mag
nitude his name would never die
| DR.. VIM. H WEIGH, of Baltimore, also
made some euiogistic remarks in re-
| CARDS to the discovery of the commit
| tee (of which Major Reed was mem
/ ber), that the mosquito carried yellow
! fever: His service to mankind is TO be
paralleled only in two or three instances
and Walter Reed was man of unusual
charm of personality; man of the very
| highest character; a man who was
scientifically trained to undertake the
work which he did. The work which
| he performed is peculiarly American.
He was trained entirely in this coun-
try to undertake this work and he un-
| dertook it with a complete and AIDE
quate training for the purpose. The
work was undertaken under the aus
pices of our National Government at
| time when we were in military control
of the island of Cuba DR.. WEIGH fur
/ Their said: Il think we can put it second
! to the discovery of the control of
smallpox by vaccination. 1t means
nothing less than the control of that
most dreaded scourge-yel1ow fever. 1t
is a discovery which rests on scientific
foundation, which has been put to
practical test. and that test has re-
suited in a complete determination of
yellow fever from the island of Cuba"
| There was about $4,000 subscribed at
the Atlantic City meeting towards
memorial fund for the erection of
monument to the memory of Major
Walter Reed, u. S. A. In connection
with this example of heroism it is not
amiss to mention the name of DR.. Jesse
| Lazear who was a member of this
commission and who lost his life by
being inoculated with the disease and
succumbing to its fatal influence.
Henry Clay Weeks, on the subject of
| Mosquito Engineering, hits the nail
fairly on the head. "A preferable term
! is economic engineering, which would
cover all the ideas involved in exter-
mination-sueh as-drainage of saturated
] areas large or small. salt or fresh,
and their utilization for agricultural or
residence purpose; the Improvement of
the living conditions of those adjacent
| to such places, generally the poorer and
more helpless class; the increase in the
tone of life of community by its rid
dance from malaria; the stoppage of
the yellow fever plague with all its con-
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which comes of the abolition of foul
wet places which are generally used as
| dumping grounds of the wastes of a
community; the reflex and direct effect
of humanity to animals the increase
of comfortable outdoor living and other
results All this is closely allied to
health not only in the meaning from
malaria and other diseases, but in a
general way in the lessening of the irri-
tations of life on which health so great
ly depends. So that the sphere of mos
quito engineering or better economic en-
gineering, is very broad. It becomes a
powerful aid to lettering the conditions
of life, health and the pursuit of hap
piness. Much of the engineering in the
past has been for and not against the
mosquito This is true in every line of
work of the engineer. 1t is seen in road
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house construction and even in land |
scape neutrality-suspicious. where there |
is a chance to form a breeding place |
or to prevent one in the disposition of |
the surface of the soil. There is an |
adapted sense in which the term mos |
quito engineering can be used, and that |
is the engineering of conditions so that |
others, possibly all, will aid in the bet |
terment-the enlistment of cooperation
the proving to the people by words
and acts that determination is possible
and is advantageous in every way. In
that way as much can be done towards
the success of the movement as can be
done by the outlay of hundreds of dol
lars in physical work. To a degree then,
we may all be mosquito engineers, pre-
venting breeding places, destroying
those that do exist and enlisting the
interest of every one to aid in better
ing the conditions of life
In summing up, would suggest that
we become allied with the National So
ciety for determination of the mosquito.
Also that it is the general concensus
of opinion: 0sD That more effective
work can be done under authorized |
boards of health. and when their pow
ers are limited, special legislation should
be enacted. (2nd) That aid should be
given by the State. Territorial or Fed
eral Government where the required ex-
penditures are in excess of the abilities
of the local communities to stand. Con-
gyess should enact special legislation
upon the subject, comforting power upon
the Public Health Agricultural or War
Departments, under certain restrictions,
to aid such communities in intelligent
ly and effectively carrying out compre-
hensive plans for the determination of
the mosquito.
DIR. DAYS VIEWS.
The views of Dr. F. R. Day, on the