Norwich bulletin., 1921-01-07
MOSQUITO MUST GO SAYS
 STATE EXPERIMENT sTArIol


 The Connecticut Agricultural Experf- | ment Station. an institution existing to promote the welfare of Connecticut in the | most practical ways, is so impressed with | the gravity of the malaria menace n this i state that 1t will devote one-tenth of its | exhibit at the Agricultural and Industrial exhibit at Hartford on January f1 to zs to demonstration of the mosquito pest | and how to prevent 1t. It's charts win ceater around the sloEana 'TThe Mos | quito Must Go" No StagnAht Water | No Mosquitoes; No MalafiA" other | charts will present the fxetS that in the United States 12.eo0 persons de eacn 1 year from malaria. that the total of the deaths from the disease In Connecticut for the past 2s years Is 1897 and that in this state the cases of the disease are each year reckoned by hundreds. with in estimable lose of efficiency. In this con- nection 1t will be emphasized that not
 the least thing that malaria does. and
 the thing it invariably does, is to e
 lower the disease-resisting power ot the
 victim as to make him guSceptible to
 any disease. while many are made per- manent inValids.
 . One of the nost graphic posters dis
 plays three photograph1- There b .
 shallow pond of slagnant water; there . is a small cottage; there is a larger house presumably containing more pe.- sons. The pond matches the mosquitoes
 In the cottage they ind q per8oE or per-
 sons carrying the germs of some sort of
 malarial fever. They bite these persons
 and draw in the gerIns. Then they trzvei
 on to the residents of. the larger house and bite other persons. discharging the 7 kgerms and communicating the disease . It Is the traTl of the mesquite. It Is the , only way in which malaria iG eonnun.. D | cated and kept alive.
 [ This disease, traeeable in connec9icu ,. as far back as 1870. has become one o' q the most familiar in the state. It as
 stunned no serious proportions in thii r state. however, until after the Civil war Q Many soldiers returning from the south ]. ern swanrps brought 1t in their blood h = those days its manner of propaxatioi = was only guessed at. but 1t was sup - posed that its germs rose as a Hiasni |, from the swauS2s. They did. but only | - recent years has 1t been understood tha if they rose on the wings of the mosquitS ,- By 1882 this spreading had been 6 ,- thoroughly done that the disease wa n found in every town in Connecticut Tn |; number of deaths each year in the stat a ! from the disease was then running con . siderably over 100. In 1887 1t was 11; l- Shortly after that. with the demonStrs l- ton in many of the worst mosquito-ir |. tested regions on the Eiooe that eisn nation of mosquitoes would eradicas a such diseases as yellow fever and rnals
 ria. levers, serious anti-moSQuito vor .- WAS begun in Connecticut The AFT if cultural Experiment Station, under a m direction of Dr. ". F. Britton. state CT g tom6losist and others. made In lsos ai complete study of the sources of mo.
 quito production In Coinec5cut. as we H., as the species of the insect found her l. That has been almost a textbook fs
 the elimination endeagor ever siace. Ul
 der the guidance H the experiment s,;
 tio1 much privately financed work ha = been done. Gradually the legislature ha strengthened the authority of the exper ib ment station to 70 upon private land fC le the draining of mosquito areas. But tt t. Initiative has never yet been placed H. the hands of the directors of the stl
 tion. and sufficient funds have not bee
 provided. In consequence, the result
 have been incomplete. and less Sne-sixi
 of the worst mosquito-breeding areas ps the state have been touched, while In ti
 few regions where the work has bee
 thoroughly done the dweilers still Gsftl
 from the mosquitoes produced In neiEi
 boring regions that have been negieoe or These are some of the reaDns vi a. there was formed and incorporated {; Connecticut last summer the Connec. h. cut Anti-Mosquito association, and VI es It is going before the legislature of lgi
 with a bill asking for statewide mo it's quito prevention laws and an approprf, as ton of about S35o.ooo As a busine y; investment alone the promoters claa n-1 the expenditure would be justified D, the health of Connectieut which t is Il Or endeavor to safeguard cannot be es, D. mated in dollars