The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-17
DOCTORS MAKE WAR
MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL BOYs HEAR DECLARATION AGAINST MOs-
 QUITOEs.
pr. Meyer Elucfdates Cannes Of bEany Dangerous Diseases And Aayases How to Combat and Prevent
 the Danger.

Scranton, Miss, Feb.--16.-- tSpecialo Dr. Fred Mayer, state lecturer on hygiene for the Mississippi State Board of Health, arrived here 1aat night and while in this vicinity was the guest of the Jackson County Medical Society. At noon, accompanied by Prof. R. P. Linfieid, superintendent of public schools, he addressed the students Of Central High School, then the Lake Avenue School, and at o'clock the Beach School where he told them of anopheles and calex pungeres varieties af mosquitoes.
 He showed the relation existing be- tween these different varieties and the levers that they transmitted. pointed out the absurdity of panfcs, which were always more disastrous than the fever because the effecg lasted 50 long that commerce once GeslecteG from point did not always return. that while in the past communities were poweriess t0 prevent panlcs; in the light of our present knowledge Q school in any lawn, could make that town immune to yellow fever. by instituting regular systematic and persistent measures for the destruction of yellow fever mos quitoes.l
 He expressed the hope that the schools of Scranton would join the school order of the 'Zancudo Bobo' whose object and purposes are to de- stroy mosquitoes.
 After dinner the Jackson County Medical Society held an Interesting session in the parior of the Scranton Hotel and was addressed by pr. Mayer, and pr. B. F. Duke, marine hospital surgeon Of the port of Pascagoula.
 At 7:s0 o'clock pr. Mayer address ed the public at the court house, talk. ing up the subject of Hyglenic sduca- tion, contagious and infectious dis eases, and particularly consumption. He declared the most pressing need of Scranton was a typographical sani- tary survey and the institution of a comprehensive drainage system that would embrace the entire area of Scranton and Pascagoula, that an ex- animation of the aforesaid area in company with pr. Duke, whose intimate knowledge of local conditions convine- ed him this would be entirely practi- cable, that N would have the effect oS getting rid of malarial mosquitoes, the gutter mosquito which made life a burden, and could transmit dengue fe- yer. and that the mosquito measures adopted by the schools could bahfsh the yellow fever mosquito so that the only mosquito problem or tn0 IuIure should be that of the salt marsh ones. which would require State or national work in a comprehensive reclamation of these marshes; that every cold day should be taken advantage of to open up and freeze them out, that a steam or stove heated house would keep them alive So that the first warm day would awaken them to pernIcious activity.
 The doctor took up the subject of typhoid and showed the relation of flies and sewerage thereto and then entered at length into the subject of consumption, both from bovine and human sources
 Doctor Mayer goes from this county to Harrison, where he will address the citizens of Pass Christian on the i7th instant. Long Beach on the 18th and Bay St. Louis. Hancock County. on the 18th.