Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-11-19

carrier travelling from one neighbor-
hood to another is bitten by mos
quitoes along the way Ten days there
after those mosquitoes infect other
persons. This carrier is likewise the
greater menace because of being un-
known to the unsuspecting victims.
Not infrequently "A malaria carrier
does not even suspect that he was not
cured when the chills stopped. Many
even boast that this or that patent
medicine stopped" them. Thus hls
terrible part in spreading the scourge
goes on. No one ever enlightened
him. His physician probably does not
know that this person ever had ma
laria Many people never say anything
TO their physician about one OF the
family having had "a few chills."
Some popular nostrum, too few doses
Of qunine or some patent chill tonic
has only stopped" the chills and
therefore is responsible for starting
the infection In others. Too small
matter to ask the Doctors advice
about it, The patent medicine almanac
with the public's blind reliance upon
it and upon the supposed scientific
accuracy of spccious patent medicine
advertising has tended to lessen in
large measure the public's trust and
reliance upon the family physician
until patients become bed-ridden. The
family physicians resultant reticence
and timidity in late years which he
has been too apt to excuse under the
cloak of ethics also have been con-
tributing factors in the lethargy that
could not be awakened while malaria
menaced a nations vitality
Been too Sensitive.
CD The ethical physician has been
too sensitive to make solicitous in
quiries about the health of members
of families whom he h not been
called to attend and too slow in prof
fering professional advice unsought
lest he invite criticism that he Ia
advertising" himself
go This is condition in which
the public schools should sound the
alarm. The people of every walk in
life must be enlisted In one gigantic
struggle to shake off this doom, worse
than serpents staying LAGOON, that /,
poisoning and crushing out the very
life and vgor of the best race on
earth. National. state, county and
municipal boards of health should be
appealed to to extend their functions
so as to impose the united strength of
all the people against the tolerance
of malaria.
Before becoming alarmed and
arousing your community as to the
immediate necessity for concerted
action, probably you wish TO be sure
of your ground. Every teacher knows
of the chief function of the red blood
cells
You only have to reflect that but
for the malaria parasites fondness for
human red blood corpuscles there
would not be any malaria in the world
today The female anOphcles mos
quito then would not be the vcritable
scourge that 1t is. The mosquito Is
not dangerous without the human
malaria carrier" on whom 1t feeds
with its human blood feast 1t draws
into its abdomen malaria parasites.
Here the parasites complete the mo-
squto cycle and in about ten days are
ready for another human host So
long as the hungry mosquito can find
adslt or babe. uninfected human be-
ings are I'm constant danger. IL Is an
easy flight from the unscrccncd tcnc-
mcnt In the alley to the nursery In the
mansion. That mosquito hr' tasted
human blood at least once before and
prefers to bore through the tender
human cuticle rather than through
the tougher skin of other animals. !
BE not deceived malaria can reach
your community and your loved ones
as long as there lis one carrier" and
one female anophelea mosquito there. |
The infected mosquitoes imported foi |
scientific purposes into malaria free
England from malaria stricken Italy !,
Is years ago transmitted the malaria
infection to the blood of both of the |
British volunteers. The carrier" in !
that experiment was many hundreds
OF miles distant from the volunteers