The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-04-20

water, which cannot be screened or
| drained Zone ounce of oil will cover Is
/ square feet of surface.) The oil will
not affect the water for use If drawn
| from below the surface.
Put fine wire netting over cisterns.
/ wells and tanks Of water in every day
1 use. (The wire should be at least Is
| to Is meshes to the inch in order to
keep small mosquitoes from crawling
through.)
Places in which it is undesirable
to put oil, such as watering troughs
for stock, etc. can be kept free from
wigglers by putting in goldfish or
minnows.
Clean up all vacant lots and back
yards of al cans. tins. bottles and
| rubbish.
Inspect and treat with coal oil gut
tiers, culverts. bitches, manholes,
| catching basins, etc. Manhole covers
| should be screened.
Houses can be cleared of mosquitoes
| by burning insect powder which stu
pefieS the mosquitoes. They should
then be swept up and burned, other
wise they will revive. Use one pound
OF powder to 1000 cubic feet of space
Two pounds of sulphur to 1000 cubic
| feet of space viii give better results.
Remember This.
Success in mosquito destruction de-
ponds upon the hearty cooperation of
the members of the entire community.
This means YOU.
Splitting on the street is dirty habit,
and is against the law. This is one
of the principal ways tuberculosis is
spread.
Next to tuberculosis Hookworm
disease, is the most important public
health problem in the south Proper
sewerage disposal would dispose of this
subject forever.
Teach the child how this disease.
(Which will retard its growth, and
dull its brain. so that 1t will be diff
cult or impossible for it to keep up
with other children not so infected(, is
transmitted, and how with very little
trouble, it can be prevented.
How many children, or grown-ups
for that matter, know how these
worms get into the intestines, where
they attach themselves to the lining
mucus membrane and begin TO suck
the blood Of the unfortunate indi-
vidual and grow and multiply at his
expense,
The adult hookworm attaches itself
to the mucus membrane of the small
intestines and deposits great numbers
of eggs. These eggs do not hatch, untii
they reach the outer air. If now de-
posted on the ground where there is a.
sufficiency of moisture and warmth
these eggs soon hatch, yielding tiny
little worms in the embryonic state
too small to be seen without the aid of
the microscope in a few days cap
able of injecting some other child.
Now barefoot child walking over
the ground where these embryos lie
in wait, has them burrow into the
skin through the pores and hair fol-
licles, reach the circulation, pass up in
the blood stream through the heart,
thence to the lungs, here they lodge,
break through into the afr spaces and
are then coughed up and swallowed,
reaching the small intestin they attach
fhRn1EaIUaR n bra NO
are soon adult worms, depositing eggs
to be passed out and repeat the cycle.
Sewerage Disposal.
Make the childe understand that in
the proper disposal of sewerage lies
the remedy for hookworm disease.
In those districts where the toilets
are not connected with the sewer, this
can be accomplished in SEA eraI ways.
The best of which we will mention.
When expense is not to be consid-
and the problem is solved, but all are
not able to afford this 1uxury-and
simpler, and cheaper ways must be
found. The open closet is the chief
menace. unless it is properly con-
and few are.
First, the reeeptacIes should be
made fly-proof.
Disposal of the contents comes next,
and perhaps the best plan is to dig a
deep pit, as far away from the water
supply as possible, where 1t VIII De
exposed to the sun, and every time
the receptacle is emptied into IT, cover
1t first with unslacked lime, and then
a few spades of earth. When the pit
gradually fills up to near the top. cover
il well with lime, finish filing it with
earth and dig another pit.
Your committee believes that these
and other facts pertaining to public
health should be taught the children
Of every community, as soon as they
are capable of understanding them, and
Il hopes that these few hints may
prove useful to the teachers through
put the city, who have volunteered to
do their share toward making Pensa-
cola the healthfest city in the. United
States
FRANK L. MAYES,
l.. G. LEIGH
S. r. MALLORY KENNEDY.
NJ D. |