Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-25
SION APPOINTED TO DRIVE MOSQUITO

ned This information. it is the COM
missions desire. is to be supplied by doc
tors and medical men, as well as lay
men, from every INFECTED region in the
entire south The information desired
covers these points:
1-What proportion of he so-called
malarial fevers of the south Is really ma
laria and what are the other fevers
which simulate it?
o-What varieties of malaria are prev
alent and where is each variety most
prevalent?
3-what means of prevention are most
economical and applicable in each IN
fected district?
4-What means of prevention are now
being utilized in each infected district?
When this information has been gath
cred and tabulated a map of the entire
south will be prepared, showing each IN
fected district and the types of maiariai
infection present in each. Then the war
of determination can be planned and car
red out to successful conclusion
There are certain individuals who are
known as malaria carriers. These per-
sons live and move and have their being
with their systems loaded with millions of
malaria germs, but are to all intentS ana
purposes immune to the disease How
ever, the blood of such persons is poison.
Sucked by an anopheles mosquito, the
germs contained in the blood of these
malaria carriers pass into the systems OF
the mosquitoes, incubate there and are
passed on to other persons who, perhaps,
have never been malarial.
1t is the desire of the commission to
learn OF all such carriers of malaria and
when found to isolate them, in mosquito
proof houses, where they cannot be bit
ten by anopheles, until such time as their
systems are rendered free of the germs.
treatment-with quinine as the basis
they will be made safe to run at large
they will no longer be living human in
cubators of disease which. not affect
ing them to any noticeable extent, makes
them a deadly peril to others so long as
they move about free and untrammeled,
to be preyed upon by anopheles and 10
pass their germ laden blood on to poison
the life current Of others.
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Persons suffering with malaria or ma
larial fevers of any of the various types
are to be isolated likewise in mosquito
proof houses A general campaign Of
education is to be carried on in the eff
fort to teach the producing classes of the
south the necessity of protecting them
selves against the mosquitoes and the
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be the methods adopted in fighting ma
laria in the human body.
At the same time the battle against
anopheles herself is to be waged with
out ceasing. Swamps are to be drained.
stagnant bodies of water that cannot
successfully be disposed of in this man
ner are to be oiled-that is. kerosene oil
is to be poured the surface of the
water so that the eggs of Mrs. Anoph-
eles cannot hatch and so that TIE
larvae already Matched and living as
"wrigglers in the water may be SUI
located.
A cleanup campaign covering the
entire south is planned. People are to
be shown the necessity of keeping
their premises free from weeds and
damp places in which mosquitoes may
breed. Tin cans. broken bottles and
all such rubbish, in which rain water
may collect and mosquitoes may hatch.
must be disposed of and not left lying
about in back yards. Rain-water bar
rels must be kept covered or screened.
and cisterns must have mosquito-proof
screens over them to keep Mrs. Anoph-
eles from setting UP Housekeeping and
rearing pestiferous brood in them.