Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1912-05-22
MOSQUITOES.
What They do, How They do II. and How
to Prevent Them,

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to Prevent Them.
Mosquito prospects are flu,
this season for the mosquito. AL
they need is little more time
They will do the rest. We
weather, with abundance o:
water standing about in ponds
swamps, puddles, rain barrels
old tin cans, bottles, dishes, roo,
spoutlng, ETC., furnishes idea
mosquito conditions. Add Il
this from one to two weeks o1
weather and the result will b,
!, marvellous. Thousands of mos
quitoes will appear as if by
magic.
OF course . few will bite you
while Others will hum and buzz
around your ears in .tortuout
way when you wish to sleep, rest
or read. But this is the least oi
the trouble. What they may dc
is to inject the tiniest amount of
malarial germs into your blood.
That will give you malarial chills
aud fever for months or years,
make you generally ineffclsnt,
.impoyerish your blood, aud make
you the easy prey of scores of
other diseases that you would not
otherwise contract.
approximately $50 North Caro-
linians died of malaria last year,
and several times as many died
of other diseases becsuses their
bodies were in such an call run.
down" condition. due to malaria
and the mosquito bite, that they
contracted every other disease to
which they were at all liable.
Fortunately the mosquito ia
not great traveller. He usually
resides within from one hundred
to five hundred feet of his birth
place. Winds may occasionally
drive him farther away, but like
the fly, he is very domestic.
Therein lies our cue. Destroy
his breeding places around our
homes and we have turned the
trick. If the average householder
in the city would have removed
all his old tin cans, bottles, tubs,
barrels, buckets, and other YES
sells containing water, if he would
examine his roof spouting and
cellar to see that there is no stale
water, and if he would either fill
or drain ell low wet holes, his
mosquito pests would be deoreas-
ed over half. If he succeed in
getting his neighbors on both
sides to do the same thing, he
will have less than fourth of an
average mosquito crop. If be can
get all the people in his block
to abolish all their mosquito
breeding places and keep them
abolished for the summer, he will
not have one mosquito where he
had ten last year, and when the
entire town learns to follow suit,
mosquitoes will be found only in
the museums.
But perhaps you have no near.
by neighbor, or he does not
know about mosquitoes, or does
not care to know. You can still
win out. Simply abolish all of
your mosquito breeding places,
both inside and outside the house,
screen the doors and windows
with fine screen, not less than
eighteen meshes to the inch, and
kill the mosquitoes that get into
the house. Mosquitoes and flies
are easily stupified by burning
pyrethrum or ''insect powder "
When stupified they may be
easily swept up and destroyed.
In bed rooms further precautions
may be taken by having the beds
screened with fine mosquito net.
ting. The State Board of Health,
at Raleigh, publisher a free pam.
phlet OH the mosquito and
malaria. which tells about the
pest and the disease he produces.
Write for it..