The Monmouth inquirer., 1925-09-03

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scope. Week after week he conducted
his search for the malarial germ in
the insects tissues without result.
Finally he had two remaining mos
quitoes. Taking one Of these, he
searched it out part by part, but with
intense disappointment, until he came
to the wee beastie's" stomach. There,
with his high-power microscope, he
found some black specks. He recog-
nized them as the pigment of he ma
laria germ. After gaining this clue,
exhausted, he slept for an hour. Com
ing back toe his work, he used a
stronger salt solution in his dissect-
ing operations, and 10, the contents
of the augmented cells no longer con-
sisted of clear fluid but a multitude of
threadlike bodies, which on the rup-
ture of the parent cell, were poured
into the body-cavIty of the insect
From there they entered the salivary
glands, and from these reached the
blood of the person bitten by the mos
quito. In his story of his work Ross
exclaims: Never in our dreams had
we imagined so wonderful a tale as
this"
Under his leadership, Ismailia, on
the Suez canal, with 5000 population,
set to work to free itself from ma
laria. 1t succeeded so brilliantly that
the disease was entirely wiped out.
Panama and a hundred other places
have been largely freed from malaria
by the application of the principles for
its control developed by Ross and his
co-workers.
The anopheline mosquito is essen
TALLY a rural resident, in contrast to
the yellow fever carrier, which pre-
fers to live in cities. Therefore the
malaria problem, in the main, has be-
come, under conditions Of modern san
itation, a matter to be dealt with
mainly by small towns, villages and
country districts.
The measures employed are: Sim
pie drainage. filing pits and shallow
pools, %channeling streams, clearing
the margins of streams and ponds, re-
moving distractions, turning in the
sunlight, oiling, enlisting the service
of the top minnow and administering
Q~uinine.
Driving Out Yellow Fever.
In the worldwide crusade for the
conquest of contagion inaugurated af-
ter the close of the World war, yellow
fever stood out as an insolent foe that
had been defeated in organized war
fare, but that had now resorted to
sniping and discriminating in tropical
America and Africa. How finally to
ton and into the land of extinction
became the thought of one of the
worlds leading sanitary organizations.
Gen. William G. Gorgas, who had
been the Nemesis of the Yellow Jack
at Havana and Panama. was induced
to head a board whose mission was to
run down that disease to Its lair and
to stamp it out forever. 1t was while
he was en- route to Africa, tt extir-
pate the sources of infection there,
that he died in London, at a time
when he might almost have realized
his life's dream of writing the last
chapter Of the history of yellow
fever"
After Maj. Walter Reed and his
fellow-workers in Cuba had demon
strated that yellow fever is a mos
quito-bOrne disease, General Wood
and Colonel Gorkas, by following the
principles laid down by Reed, ban
Ished it from Cuba; Colonel Gorgas
drove it out of Panama; DR.. Oswaldo
Cruz eliminated it from Rio de Jeneiro
and Doctor Liceaga exterminated it
in Vera Cruz.
But there still remained a few places
that served as seed beds Of the dis
ease, against which the world had to
quarantine constantly. One Of these
vas Guayaqull, Ecuador, and there
were others in Yucatan, Guatemala
and elsewhere.
Finally Guayaquil, awake to the
new spirit of international co-opera-
ton for making the world safe from
the domination of the Huns of con
taglon, invited the foremost sani-
tarians Of North America to coop
crate with the municipality in a final
drive for the determination of the
malady.
The invitation was accepted, and
American, Latin and Nipponese fought
shoulder to shoulder In a stirring bat
tie for the last stronghold Of Yellow
Jack. with the result that in less than
a years time the last ease of yellow
fever was cured and in less thar two
years all danger of Its recurrence was
past.
For the first time in -three-quarters
Of a century Guayaquil was a port
against which the world no longer
needed to set up the bars Of Quaran-
tine.
AS a result OF very careful work Of
research specialists there are now
four ways by which yellow fever may
be cOmbatted-by eliminating Mrs.
Stegomyia Fasciata, the deadly lady
Of the mosquito tribe who carries II