The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-12-09
DR.. Kennedy Urges Public
To Join Mosquito Fight

It's going to be a hard uphill fight
but as the general public learns what
! it's all about, and how necessary it
| is to eradicate the pests, they will,
am. sure, cooperate as they always
do when they thoroughly understand"
| This was the statement of DR.. Mall
| lory Kennedy, who was selected as
one of the six vice presidents in the
Florida Anti Mosquito Association
launched at Daytona Thursday, when
| interviewed yesterday by a Journal
reporter at his office where he was
administering to the wants Of Public
Health Service patients.
The statewide mosquito control
conference, with over $50 delegates
from all Florida attending, was held
two days at Daytona. A permanent
organization was formed, and officers
in various sections of the state ap-
pointed to spread the gospel of mos
quitoless Florida
II have found DR.. Kennedy said
that if you can once get the people
to realize the necessity for putting a
public health measure into effect,
that if you can once get them to I'M
derstand the dangers that follow iner-
tia on their part, that they are eager
to take hold and do the right thing.
There is so much to be said in
favor of this anti-mosquitO campaign,
that has just been launched, that it is
hard to know just where to begin.
Aside from the annoyance of being
bitten by mosquito, there is the
danger of contracting several more or
less serious diseases from the bite.
at is a we'll established fact that
malaria is transmitted by the bite of
a mosquito. Yellow fever with it's
death toll, and the burden of quar-
antine), is caused by the bite Of
mosquito. Denguc fever is transmit
ted by another variety of mosquito.
These diseases can be contracted in
no other way.
"Pensacolians are indeed fortunate
in having so little to do to make the
city mosquito free. Our soil is, for
the most part, sandy. and pools of
water do not remain in evidence long.
Contrary to the general belief Of peo-
pie in other states, we have hills, and
are not bothered with the difficulties
that are met in the Mississippi river
bottom lands.
John Doe and Mary Doe in PEN
sacola make their own mosquitoes,
and as John and Mary cecide that
they can get along without being an
easy.
1T is true, that in few sections
of this city and surrounding country,
that breeding places exist, that John |
and Mary are not responsible for, but |
as soon as the citizens inform the city !
commissioners and the county COM |
missioners that they are in earnest |
in their desire to be rid of mosquitoes |
these gentlemen, 1 am sure, VIII lend |
every Possible aid at their command. |
No Unpleasant Notoriety.
Don't imagine that to wage an
open, honest fight on mosquitoes will |
bring unpleasant notoriety.' Just re-
that nature has made it
easy for Pensacola and |
Escambia county to be rid of these /
pests, and that with a statewide |
in force, that every other
community in the state will be eX-
pected to do its share, or be branded
rs a Stacker, and that the community
that can first say to the world, We
have no mosquitoes, come and let us
prove it, will be apt to have the fell
ows from Missouri take them at their
word.
I'm an interview Of this kind only
the high spots of preventive work
can be touched. Later, with the aid
IF the local press, l hope from time
% time to tell the public things about
he mosquito they should be glad to
know, but for the present let me
hroW out a few helpful hints.
Some Helpful Hints.
First, l assume that for the good
If the city, as a tourist town, and for
-our own health and comfort, you
want Pensacola free from mosquitoes.
If You agree to this you must help,
and if you are willing to help, you
must know what to do. If all the
citizens will follow these simple rules,
next summer you will be agreeably
surprised at the results. Manifestly, ,
he first thing to do is to determine +,
where mosquitoes breed. This done,
t remains to control these breeding
places, by far the greater number of
which are found to be neglected yes
els of water on private premises, !
uch as tanks, cisterns, rain barrels, |
troughs, sagging cutters;
ven the water pitchers in the spare
DOM may breed enough to supply
he household. Obviously then, every |
itizen should help.