The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1918-06-13
PREVENTABLE LOCAL PLAQUES,
The MOSQUITO and THE FLY

Responsive to notice, published
in our last issue from the efficient
secretary Of the Civic League regard
ing combined popular effort to get rid
Of theplagues Of flies and mosquitoes
that effect this long-suffering com
munity every summer and autumn,
Reyeille reporter interviewed some of
the officials and members of the Civic
League, as to what "the d., dear
people are going to do about it?", to
slightly paraphrase the famous re-
mark Of a former mighty railroad
president.
!, Inc complaining torturees claim
mat both plaques are preventable
WIN cheapness and facility; that the
fountain source Of the local house-1y
a1ictlon lies in the numerous neglect
g morse and COW stables that adorn
sAa odorize different blocks of our
sssuEnul town, and the unlawful pig
yves ot our corner lots. In these
MEIllDie war times such local estab-
nshnlents are SO essential to relieve
~ nlgn cost of living and to save
~ poor from the present piracy of
pioneering that regarding them,
iAw ana justice should be blindfolded
Y potb eyes until the return Of peace
Ta,a maot prosperity. But, chemically and
sIhsse.1iaanlcally, such places can and
sAUula pc kept fy-breeding-proo at
~ selg small cost to their proprietors
ana the public generally.
~, ~ the seventeen varieties of mos
Aul.oes that torment the populace of
taiS is 'oWn all summer and most of the
,aili ~ low-bred branches of the Ano-
Pnslss and the Stegomyia families
~ ele foremost and most numerous
s4 dangerous offenders. The first
a. a. snese are the worst, being the prov
- source Of the severe and protracted
mslarial fevers which mainly aff1ict
~ southern people. The Stegom-
inortaI t@iIiiIs, y tnanks to science and i'm
leaSa, locaIi,,, human sacrifice, are no longer
jiing sejiag dangerous as disseminators of
f'vm leyer; but rather tend to lower
hv bAlyIal standard of the community
III Ssing very productive of profan-
VIZ ~ .hat special season Of the year
tba tbNn most OF our good ministers of
esr,sS s.sr gS9spel are enjoying their we'll
sarned vacations,
anese are almost purely domestic
hnsns4ulsoes, and breed within a few
sronaS ,,rs 81 Yards Of or Immediately
cuts u ~ She human homes they perse-
ists lhey are strictly prohibition
s.S yers ana depend on water for their
'efy existence
II .Ilney are born in the staonant nools
- ~ oy summer rains. there nassino
ernerss,iss ana laval stages, and thence
Bin eg 81 with humming wings and
tnr;se .S VI Darbed venom, almost as tor
thssa as those of human collectors
connt,. ys nard times. They TEEN in
wstas wtss millions in the open rain
wssS barrels of most of our local
IN -s,ihD.sul,es, IN the leakage gathered
ana @oanaoned cellars, in horse-tubs
roof- matseerlng- -troughs, in leaf-stoppec
NJ ~ cutters, and in stili and stap.
'rs 'mora water wherever the busy anc
iess yenomous female of the spec
Or ean fnd place to wag a wing
be- an egg, and her billions of ba
loam to wigg1e
tp ;-al alalna, with a hundred and TWEEN
Ene51 u; annual rainfall, under scienc,
PorsA ~ 81 It's mosquitoes within a year
nusi i slosons with fifty inches Of an
aaih1all, has only faithful,
az ssasated its mosquitoes for a hun
loeal SIS, until they have become !
s'@soe' serving to make humai