The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-11-03
IS REAL BATTLE
FOR HUMAN LIFE
Romance and Tragedy Of Froplo
World Tod In story Of
the Mosquito.

Just a. thls time there Ia especial
interest here In regard TO tho mosquito
and ita danger 10 human healthi the
board Of health is conducting an euer.
geiic campaign againat them, citizens
committee Is prepared to cooperate In
a most comprehensive manner, while
the army and navy stands ready to
jump into the fray and extorminate these
enemies Of the human race, more dead.
I " in effect than a great battle.
10 is for this reason that certain
publications, only within the past two
or three years made possible by the
progress of scientific research, are in
demand, and the Crossroads Book Store
has secured number Of the most up.
+, to-date of these. To the ordinary eiti.
zen the reading Of these books would
seem at first glance to be a tiresome
business, with a necessity of learning
a lot of hard scientific names. But this
Is not altogether the case, in fact the
books are fascinating in a remarkable
degree, for in all of them are told the
story of the worlds fight against dis
ease, and in n way which discloses the
romance, tragedy and conquest Of the
ftropical world
-Four of these books are Mosquito
or Man, by Sir hubert w. Boyce, M
b., Il. Il. s., published by n. p. Dut
ton, New York; "Health, Progress and
Administration in the West Indies
and yellow Fever and Its Proven
tion,v both by Sir hubert also, an,
! Published by Dutton s Co., ANA eth,
Reduction of Domestic Mosquitoes b,
Edward Halford Ross, published b.
John Murray, London.
The Battle for Health.
In yellow Fever and Its Proven
tiony the author takes one into tn,
various countries which have been af
tiicted with this scourge since tn,
earliest times, the first notice follow
ing the invasion of Mexico by Gortes
Vera Cruz being an endemic cente
since 1909. The disease is trace,
throughout Central, South and Nortl
America, Africa and parts Of Europe
wherever the little Stegyomia ealopu
has been fond, the striped daylight
mosquito. Sir RubeIt also goes ex
haustiyely into the methods of com
batting the disease once it is started
explains the treatment and quotes from
the reports of expert physicians.
In hisl" Mosquito or Man, Sir Ru
! bert deals eKhaustively with the in
lection of human beings by mosqui
, toes, not only with yellow fever, bu
J malaria and dengue fever-the malari
!. carried by the anopheline mosquito an,
. ln,,,,h a.. Cnlas~ 20 ~
tells of the "epoch making discovery
o of these facts by Major Ross, of India
!. as we'll as The other Investigators alon
Q these lines. 1.-The winged serpents
3 of Herodotus, he now believes tc
the deadly mosquito whose bite Ofte
y results in symptoms of the bite Q
e poisonous serpents.
t As far back as 1858, Dr.. Louis I
:, Beauperthuy, French physician
promulgated the idea that mosquitoe
y were disease carriers, especially of We
!, low fever, but he was unable to prov
it. Doctor Mott, of Mobile, Alabamt
in ls4S, made the first announcement
that yellow fever was contracted froi
the bite of the mosquito. But it wa
only after the work of Pasteur, Lor
Lister, Professor Koch and others, i
4 recent years, that this fact was full
4 established by the untiring efforts c
Y others, and especially the America
army surgeons in Cuba, notably Doctor
Reed, Carroll, Agramonte and Lazear
s. The Horror of It.
1t The horror of yellow fever in the Of
d days was in part caused by the my
" tterv of it's contraction No one cOl
:, neeted the little mosquito with it, "
it was Just rs deadly on board a shi
y out in the ocean as it was in II tropic.
swamp, if the mosquitoes were thtr
le In the West Indies the rate of death
Q. yellow fever is about sixty-nine p'
N cent, or between sixty and seyenty-fN
!, per cent, according to other writer
% while in some cases over eighty p'
80 cent of those attacked die.
~ No races are immune from the di
IN ease, but accordingly to statistics
British Guiana the Portuguese we
= particularly susceptible, 50 much !
a fact that their immigration from M
a deira was prohibited. In the ranks
a. the British army the average of deaf
IN from this disease in the West lndi
re was sixty-nine per cent. Among &
m Portuguese over eighty per cent.
Their IAfe Story.
az "'The Reduction of Domestic Nc
~ quitoes,'' by Il. IL. Ross, is a remar
~ able book in many ways. In this ]
- tie volume Mr.. Ross tells Of the II
q" of the mosquito in story shape, no Q
m plains just how Il is born, bred and
,n fected and why the female is bloc
al thirsty. Then be explains how 70 pI
~ vent the spread Of the mosquito, he
4 10 eliminate her and the obligati'
II there is on all communities TO do n
work Tor the benefit Of all eOpeerne