The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1917-05-16
CLUB WOMEN HEAR
MOSQUITO TALK
MR. I.E PRINCE URGES WOMEN
10 ORGANIzE AND HAR TEfE
MOSQUITO RoN HOME.


EN- ~.
Before large mber Of club wo-
men and ladies o xhe town at Sims
library Tuesday d ernoon Mr. ] Le-
Prince. engineer 18th the govern
ment health scrv u. pleaded for 4
mosuuitoless Wal hachie, and Z he
was assured that The women we're
ready to do Their rt toward bring !
sns about such al ideal condition. !
He stressed the Hrt that in going
iato this fight agd hst the mosquito
Naxahachie ii gaeg up against q
fs-eSnnd e~@my VT which he has
been matching hrins fer sevent 30
s sti'I tag his hat off 70
her.
The meeting wd In response 70
an invitation FROM the lady meme
bars OF the health board, who have
proposed the plan getting the We
men to look after mosqlito brood
Ing places about the individual
homes. Mrs. G. Supple called
the meeting to ord IF and in 4 few
wasl rfoser words 1ntraduced the
rineipal spsaker h. dec'erR1 tss
Ids nf Wasahaet2a were leval to
ffssir fonoes a~d - FL reaslv a f1eht
anv enemy which tfraatens to cause
fha disturb neas sraosquitoes.
Mr. Laprince didssaot waste words
in getting down toshis subject He
sail, the word nos4hito means little
more than bird, bteause there are
80 many varieties Oh mosquitoes, bnt
that his purpose w@s TO talk of the
methods of Kidding ahe town of the
pest. He said the Method of attack
included first the consideration OF
the outside natural waterways and
stagnant water thM came the va
cant fots END last but not least in
importance the hong He took oe-
easion to commendsthe effort made
here some months gro TO clean Gr
ard the p:ling up oE5oId tin cans and
rubbish, but he declared the method
or piiing up tin ca3s in big heap
oftentimeG only seized to increase
the possibilities in .mosauito breed
ing. He argues that the larger the
pile of tin cans thesionger the water
would remain in them and the more
mosa uitoes would breed.
While he argued against the tin
cans because theysprovide breeding
places for mosquitoes, he said the
tin cans are not tle real source Of
this mosquito breeding. He called
attention TO the fafi that wooden re-
ceptaeles that holp water provide
even better piaeeshan the cans He
said open wells ana cisterns contrib |
ute their full sha3e Of mosquitoes. /
He likewise mentioned the open rain
barrel
In this connecNon Mr. LePrince
said it was very pyobabie that many |
OF the water baEreYs In Freedman /
are breeding mosquitoes and that
the colored peopleswere raising mos
anftoes for the whites. This of
course is due to fhe fact that water
corrections are nd had with great
or part Of Freedean and the color
ed people are forced 10 maintain
water barrels. sSife advocated thea
screening OF wat<r barrels, cisterns
wells and all rseeptaeles in which
water Stands. g. said ii was even
naeeesarv to serefn the cutters that
iead from the r1pf 70 the eistern II +
wa would mako SIRE that mosqui-
soes DO rot breed in the cis.erns. for
the malaria moMnito Is putting up
a stubborn fight for existence and
will go down gutter pipe TO get In
20 cistern and then will lead her
..~nn~ %, through the same hole.
The speaker Svaataaa the hvher
-atsag qu-luies of the r0osou'to and
sHelsred that ~ WIS possible for
them 10 live in God weather provid-
- thev were ~es dfzturbed IN thelr
tsa,ng places a. also pictured the
difference betw IN the mafaria mas.
quito and the 9'loN, fever mosquito
seying the yelIaw fever mosquito
was more cloSly associated with
man end almost as domestic as the
poultry in the yard. This mosquito
only attacks 10 the tendefest and
most ungetabla plaees. such as un-
der the wrist AUD about the ankles
This mosuuitosis day biter. while
the malaria mosquito is night