The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-06-26
MAY ENTIRELY
PREVENT MALARIA
Rockefeller Foundation Has
Been Conducting Some
Important Experiments
FINDS COST IS
NOT PROHIBITIVE

Disease Prevented by Eradication Of
the Acknowledgements Yellow Fever
Can Also Be Prevented in Near Flu
ture.
NEW YORK, June 26-The possibility
of virtually eliminating malaria and mas
| tering yellow fever are the outstanding
| features Of the second installment of the
review of the Rockefeller Foundation for
| 1918, made public yesterday The founda-
ton has been at work in various districts
/ Of the United States 1t tested the pos
sibility Of Kidding a community Of malaria
by carrying ont antimosquito measures in
| four towns in Arkansas. The purpose has
been to stimulate other towns to take
similar measures at their own expense,
and as an evidence that It IS well within
the means Of a community, il was shown
that the per capita cost was only Al
cents
BY draining or filling pools, ny ditehing
sluggish streams. and by olng surface
water which could not be otherwise dealt
with, the breeding Of the anopheles Tina
laria c&rryingl mosquito was almost Who'll
Il prevented Thus the sole means by
which malaria can be transmitted was
eliminated
The results, as tested by the number
81 calls made by physicians on persons
/ who were suffering from the disease were
striking in Hamburg. Ark, he number
Of calls fell from 1912 in 1916 to 50 ID
1913, reduction for the period Of 97i per
cent, and the woll, was done at an eS-
tremely low per capita cost
, The report tells how tho work was car
RED on with the closest cooperation 81
tile United States Health Service and The
state health boards, and that during TIL,
wear the movement viii be extended in
Mississippi TO the whole 81 Sunaowci
county. which will bear half the expense
The attack on the seed beds Of yellow
fever began with the appointment 81
Gen William G. Gorgas, on his retire
ment from the office Of surgeon genera
of tire United States army. as director o
, the YELLOW fever or Of tho intcrnationa
health board with freedom to carry en-
: the recommendations Of the srcciaI ycl
! low fever commission of which. ia 1910
? he was tfh athief rhqttiaHiatp ertttfnht
| were TO hc made - destroy the dlSc1S
ut its sources, aud before the end of loT
General Gorgas set ont upon a prelimi
nary journey To Central America
\ yellow fever epidemic had broken on
9 III Guatemala in June of last year am
7 DIR. joseph II White was sent down t
handle the situation
: He was cordially received. saws tn
4 report, granted full authority. and give
! necessary aid. Quarantine was estal
; lshed. physicians were drafted into SCI
s vice. and all well-tcstcd measures for I'll
control OF yellow foyor were prompt
Al put into effect The endemic was brouet
e under control, SO that when on Sept. ]
" pr White was compelled to return. IL
J. lection was left at only one point. Tn
\ resident representative &c the board too
i charge and continued appropriate mca
II urcs. On Dec II he reported that n
e yellow fever remained in Guatemala.
If 1t is hoped that measurable results /
T the reduction az infection win he disclose
= in the near future yellow fever is bein
d pressed further and further into isolate
n ;reas. This seems to be ono disease whic
I by persistent activity may he hrough
Y completely wndcr control"
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