The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-03-09
mt WAIT TO SWAT TAEFLY
NOW TO WAR ON WINGED
n,y OF SUMMER TINE.
poard of Health Issues Early
tS'e Time for Screening Is
"S a and Do 1t Effectively.

and comfort that Imagination
laD conceived to add to the pleasure
a. ,, 1 but if it is without screens
i',l W.T. only incomplete, but lacking
ho most essential element OF
Iohode. You may be without
'Ine - cit upon; without a table
pa" ,bich to eat your food, but
S To terms thus strong-and 1t
- IL, make them even stronger
w. the Georgia State Board OF
Nth W. seek to stress the Importance
.oroens as the most effective
leans of conserving the individual
epce the public health.
Tbo screen is the familys quaran-
inc against many diseases, and it is
he only safe and sure prevention
,1;o. and mosquitoes are the bearers
manv dangerous and often fatal
,oIodies; there is but one safeguard
HHlldlouANS'
roinst their possible infection
keep them out
One Fly's Terrible Burden.
single house fly may be the
sooror of some 100000 disease
rorms a few of which, under favor
bile circumstances, may produce
vnbod fever, dysentery, tuberculo-
.is ar some other malady just as
dangerous.
Equally dangerous with the house
ev under proper conditions, is the
MOSQUITO, making it just as import
amt that he be excluded from inhab-
tod PREMISES. Mosquitoes are the
absolutely demonstrated agencies of
distributing malaria, yellow fever,
fIariasis and like diseases, in fact,
ii has been proven with mathemat-
cal exactness that they are the only
means by which these maladies are
communicated.
The discovery that tilariasis, pro-
ducing often elephantiasis and other
deformities, was communicated only
through the mosquito, preceded dis
covery of the same principle with
regard to malaria and yellow fever.
1t is malaria, of course, that the
people of Georgia have most to
guard against.
Mr.. AnOpheles Has Monopoly.
Malaria is communicated solely
3 by the bite of one particular species
of mOsquito-the Anopheles, it is
called-and in no other way. This
has been demonstrated by medical
science beyond all shadow of doubt.
It is now just as absolutely accepted
among scientists as that two and
\ two make four.
But mosquitoes bite me when l
am out of doors in the daytime, so
what have to gain by screening my
house against them?" some one will
ask.
1t is a well observed popularity
OF the AnOpheles mosquito, the
'fahSmltter of malaria, that his &C
tlviteS are confined to the hours of
darkness; he rests during the day
and gets in his work during the
night. In his position of rest the
Oody OF the malarial mosquito is al
most straight and sticks out from
'ne surface on which it sits, while
'He common mosquitoes body makes
On angle and both bill and tail point
toward the surface to which it is
attached
screening the house, then, keeps
ou' the malarial mosquito, and there
Is practically nothing to be feared
-Om MS activities by day.
Screen EARLY and Well.
Ihis is the screening season-the
''H'e 10 prepare for the spring and
sumner campaign against those dis
'a'eS which flourish under rising
temperatures. Screen the house
DO"' the state board of health ad-
'l'eS and urges, and use screens of
mesh fine enough to keep out mos
SuI'oeS-preferably eighteen wires
u the inch. The cost is small as
IMPAIRED 5ou'pared with the immunity from
dangerous and often fatal disease.
screen the manure pile; in it 95
bot cent of all the flies are born or
waN thence they make their
tbn' ' seFm-laden, to the kitchen and
+bo oLilLs room. Keep the stables,
cIoo. cHlcKen yards and the pig pens
of '0 a., Destroy the breeding places
~ uIeS and then screen them ont
m M inc house. Screen the closets
in ov IL impossible for flies to get
tbo VI out of them; it is from these
forr, are conveyed some of the worst
lo[nS Of disease.
tha Summation should be made of
M PREMISES to see that there are
W. t poolS OF stagnant water; the rain
a. mat nils an old tin can is s1,f-
Or dr,, 10 breed mosquitoes. Drain
best o ou all stagnant pools or, next
osano 0oi9I lnelr surfaces with kerr
Or Ill, ol' Screen the rain barrel