The Palatka news and advertiser., 1916-04-14

MALARIA.


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There are two classes of sins at
least two-sins of omission and those
of commission. If there's any differ
ence in the results of the two, it
would be hard to discover it, and real
ly it wouldn't be worth while to try.
Whether either is the more forgiva-
BILE is deep psychological problem,
too profound and too uncertain TO
be worried about.
But in health matters it is probable
that the things we might do and don't
do, bring worse troubles and more of
them, than our aggressive offenses.
That these passive offenses-the kind
that comes by failing to do what we
ought-are sinful is shown in their ef-
fects against ourselves and against
our neighbors.
1t is moral wrong to suffer from
a disease that may be prevented, be-
cause it is moral obligation to our
neighbors and to the community that
we shall always be at the high level
of producing efficiency. 1t is NOR
al wrong that we shall communicate
to others disease that shall lessen
their highest efficiency. 1t is mat
ter of time somewhere in the future
when the best sentiment of the state
and nation will recognize this practi-
cal relationship between preventable
diseases and private morals.
These facts apply to no disease at
all general in Florida with stronger
emphasis than to malaria. 1t is COM
municable from one individual to an
other through mosquito carried para
sites. 1t is eXhausting and enerva-
ting. 1t causes immense loss of phys
ical energy and mental efficiency, and
the resulting economic loss is use
lessly large-useless, because unnec-
essary.
In Florida, as elsewhere, it's raw
ages are greater in the warm months
OF the year because in these months
the mosquito is more active. Indica-
tions in certain sections of the state
point to the possibility, even the prob
ability, that the disease is likely to
be unusually prevalent during the ap-
preaching summer and now is the
time to start the active fight against
these probabilities.
During the colder months, when the
mosquito is not active as a disease
carrier, the seeds of the malady are
preserved more or less quiescent, in
the bodies of the human victims, to
be revived by the heat of the spring
and summer, making the patient the
source of infection.
There are two reliable ways of pre-
venting the spread of malaria. One
is by curing it. The remedy is sim
ply and sure and every Florida doc
tor knows it and can administer it
effectively. The other way is to pre-
vent the inoculation of the mosquito,
which absorbs the parasite laden
blood by attacking the patient and
transfers it when he-or rather, She
bites the next victim.
In other words, keep the MOSQUITO
from the patient and protect every
body from the mosquito. Medical
scientists have become intimately ac
quainted with this particular mos
quito, and they know the habits of
her daily life. They have discovered
that she, like burglars, wildcats, bats
and owls, work at night, although the
begins operations in the late
afternoon and just before sunset. She
has no liking for the bright light and
heat of the full day.
And this prevention means screens
wire screens-screens enclosing the
porch where the family sits in the
evening, screens over every window
and the door of the house, and the
mosquito proof net we'll tucked in
over the bed. Make the screening so
that the pest cannot get into
he house nor to the places where
people sit or rest. And be sure that
his screening is in working order
vi the time. Eternal vigilance is the
orice and the results make it cheap.
Careful screening of the home in
1lorlda serves more purposes than
hat of comfort. It prevents ma
aria, it is effective and necessary
n the fight against typhoid and ;
against other diseases. Indeed. the !
screen (of wire) is practically as es.
ential to the Florida home as its
'oof, and the sooner this is recog-
lized as an established fact, the soor
r Florida people will reach their
'reatest productive capacity in the in
'ustrial and moral develo"men+ OF
he great state-State Board of
Iealth Bulletin. /