The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-09-28

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Yes, he's here again-millions of
him. He came with the rains and he
| won't 60 away until he gets ready
unless, perchance. a mosquito inspector
sprinkles a little coal-oil on his tail or
fills him full of carbide gas.
Sure, the board of health is spending
about thousand dollars month on
| the mosquito campaign. Haven't you
| noticed it' Almost any day one can
see the inspectors, armed with buckets
of crude oil, smearlng up few puddles
along the roadside or chasing the fes-
tive midnight songster to his lair. But
somehow they don t seem to get rid of
him. He is ever with US and his bite
| causes just as much profanity now as
it did before the shippers wharf COM
mittee began contributing thousand
dollars a month to mosquito cam
paign.
But it $ not the fault of the board
of health that the buzzy little pest
still persists-at least, that's what
Chips Charlock says, and he ought to
know. 1t is all owing to the general
cussedness of that old fraud and spoil
sport, J. Pluvius If he would only
reign instead of raining, the festive
| mosquito would ere now have been a
| rarity in the land and the Bishop
| Museum would long since have begun
| sending out expeditions to catch and
preserve in alcohol and formaldehyde
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| But. to treat the subject with the
seriousness which so serious subject
| deserves, the mosquitoes are worse
than ever. objurgatons are more gen
eral than ever and the patience of the
| midnight toiler is fast becoming neg
| ligIbie quantity-all on account of the
rains.
For the water pouring down from the
hilis-so Chips Carlock says, and he
ought to know-has brought down with
| it billions of embryo skeets, commonly
called wriggles, and these have hatch
ed out in the beneficent warmth of the
sunny plains and soggy mudholes of Ho-
nolulu into the most disapproved brand
of mosquitoes.
$50 long as the mosquito campaign
is not extended to the hills above Ho-
nolulu.' says CharlocIl of the board of
health, awe can never get rid of the
mosquito. We may keep him down at
times. but every time it rains, he Will
be as bad as ever.
1.-The mosquito campaign extends
from the kaimuki reservoir to the ka-
lihi slaughter house and from the sea
to q little above Wyllie street. But
that is not far enough. If we are
going to free Honolulu from mosquitoes,
we must 90 higher up, where they
breed and from whence the wrlgglers
are washed down into Honolulu with
every RAIN
Charlock states that out of the $1,000
a month contributed by the wharf com
mittee, the board of health now has on
hand surplus of over a thousand dol
lars. This, he thinks, is enough to war
rant the putting on of about five more
mosquito men, and with the help of
three the work could be carried up
into the hills with some hope of at
least partially suppressing, If not of
eliminating. the pest.
Oil, Charlock says, is not by any
means all it has been cracked up to
be as Il mosquito annihilator. 1t is
all right just as long as there is no
rain. but the first flood washes It all
away and all the pools have to be oiled
over again.
Good results are being obtained from
the little mosquito fish and large num-
beers of them are being distributed
throughout the swamps and ponds. But
the fish can not be used in mudholes
and these are the bane of the mosquito
brigade.
What seems to be needed is law
authorizing the board of health to
make careless property owners who
have swampy property drain their land.
As matters stand at present, man
may own vacant lot in any part
of town and may let water stand on
it TO breed mosquitoes. The residents
Of the district have to suffer aud there
is no way of getting at the owner
of the property and making him clean
up his land.
Calcium carbide is being extensively
used by the mosquito men now ana
hey say it is much more effective than
petroleum but good deal more ex