The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-06-08
FEDERAL BULLETIN TELLS HOW
TO CURE MOSQUITO BITES AND
WAR AGAINST THE MOSQUITOES

= meshes. Wells and MEETINGS for camp
= ing in the tropics or other region,
Where mosquitoes abound are absolute
ly necessary. Light frames are mad,
, to fit helmetlike over the head and ar,
covered with mosquito netting. SINH
lar frames, readily folded into a com
pact form, are made to form a bee
covering at night, and every campine
outfit for work in tropical or malaria.
regions should possess such frame
work and plenty of mosquito netting
as an essential part of the outfit.
The size of the mesh in MOSQUITO
bars and window screens is import.
ant Twenty meshes to the inch can
be relied upon to keep mosquitoes out.
but 10 to the inch admits some of
them.
Screening Breeding Places.
Where the rain-water supply is con-
served in large tanks, as in cities in
the Gulf States, screening is neces.
sary and is now rather generally en-.
forced. Rain-water barrels everywhere
should be screened in the same way.
except where fish are used to kill the
early stages of mosquitoes. A cheap
cover for water barrel can be made
by covering large iron hoop with
piece of stout calico or sacking, free
from holes, in such a manner that a
good deal of sag is left in the ma
terial
Apparatus for Catching Adult Mos.
quitoes.
An interesting homemade appar-
atus in common use in many parts of
the United States is very convenient
and effective. 1t consists of a tin cup
or a tin-can cover nailed to the end
of long stick in such way that
spoonful or so of kerosene can be
placed in the cup, which may then, by
means of the stick, be pressed up to
the ceiling so as to inclose one mos
quito after another. When covered
over in this way the captured mos
quito will attempt to fly and be caught
in the kerosene. By this method per-
haps the majority of the mosquitoes
in given bedroom-certainly all of
those resting on the ceiling-can be
caught before one goes to bed.
Mr.. H. Maxwell-Lefroy of India
makes trap consisting of a wooden
box lined with dark-green baize and I
having a hinged door. The trap is -
inches long, IL inches broad, and 9
inches deep. A small hole, covered by
a revolving piece of wood, or metal,
was prepared in the top of the box.
Owing to the habit of mosquitoes to
seek cool, shady place in which to
rest, such as a dark corner of the
.oom, or book shelf, or something of
hat sort, they will enter the trap,
which is put in the part of the room
most frequented by mosquitoes, all
)ther dark places being rendered unin-
labitable so far as possible. They
IRE driven out of book shelves with a
luster or with tobacco smoke, and go
nto the desirable sleeping place for
he day. The door is then closed and
and into the small hole at
he top of the box a teaspoonful or
ess of benzine is introduced. This
Kills all of the mosquitoes inside, and
he box is then thoroughly aired and i,
'eplaced. In this way Mr.. LEROY is
'ery successful in catching mosqui-
oes. At one time he averaged SO a
lay
Remedies for Mosquito Bites.
The most satisfactory remedy known !
o the writer, from his personal expert
nee, has been moist soap. Wet the
md of a piece of ordinary toilet soap
nd rub it gently on the puncture, and :
he irritation will soon pass away. ;
others have enthusiastically recon- ,
nended household ammonia, or alco-
ol, or glycerine. One correspondent c
marks the puncture with a lump of in ,
igo; another with one of the naph, ;
haline moth balls; another, iodine. y
rev. R. w. Anderson of Wanda, S. c.,
tates that he has found that by hold :
ng his hand to hot lamp chimney a
he irritation of mosquito punctures I
'ill be relieved instantly. a
Abolition Of Breeding Places. G
1t has been found that, taking the G
roup Of mosquitoes as a whole, their G
Teeding places are of the most d. '
erse character. Some species, how g
yer, are restricted in the character 6
their breeding places. Certain a
orms, for example, breed only in tree
oles; others in accumulations of +