The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1925-09-09

Secunderabad, India. He began I
dissect mosquitoes under the micro
. scope. Week after week he conducted
: his search for the malariai germ II
the Insects tissues without result.
Finally he had two remaining mos
quitoes Taking one OF these. ne
searched 1t 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 the ma
laria germ. After gaining this clue,
exhausted, he slept for an hour. Com
Ing back to his work, he used a
stronger salt solution In his dssect-
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 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 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-
'ome, under conditions of modern SAN
tation, matter to be dealt with
mainly by small towns, villages and
country districts.
The measures employed are: Sim
lie drainage, filling pits and shallow
ools, channeling streams, clearing
he margins Of streams and ponds. re-
1oving distractions, turning in the |
unl1ght, oiling, enlisting the service L
the top minnow and administering y
uinine. o
Driving Out Yellow Fever. Ii
In the worldwide crusade for the
inquest OF contagion inaugurated at "
r the close of the World war; yellow U
yer stood out as an insolent foe that al
ID been defeated in organized war d;
re, but that had now resorted to al
iping and bush-whacking IN tropical al
nerica and Africa. How finally TO We
i've 1t beyond the bounds of civiliza- LIZ
N and into the land Of extinction tt
came the thought of one of the fic
rios leading sanitary organizations. cls
zen. William G. Gorgas. who had
IN the Nemesis Of the Yellow Jack ou
havana and Panama. was induced -,
mead board whose mission was TO ~
down that disease to its lair and ~
stamp 1t out forever. It was while soi
was en- route to Africa, to extir- la'
e the sources Of infection there. coi
{ he died In London, at a time yer
IN ne might almost have realized JUL
Ines dream Of writing the last anc
pier OF the history of yellow for
r." mex
tier Maj. Walter Reed and nj. The
ow-workers in Cuba had demon ern
ted that yellow fever is mos x.
o-borne disease. General Wood sma
Colonel Gorgas, by following the this
ciples laid down by Reed, ban is
q 1t from Cuba; Colonel Gorgas ligh
e 1t out Of Panama; DR.. Oswaldo opel
eliminated it from Rio de Jene,ro
Doctor Liceaga extermInated n 81
era Cruz. tnls
It there still remained few places a.o
served as seed beds of the dis. .oDe
against which the world had n oe
antlne constantly. One of these otne
Guayaquil, Ecuador, and there Ell
o."els III fucatan, Guatemala chit
~ ust
laily Guayaquil, awake TO tba will,
spirit OF international co-opera. chan
for making the world safe from trad.
domination Of the Huns of con. tho :
T. invited the foremost SAM.
Is OF North America TO co-on. Ida
with the municipality In fna, nipple
ior the determination OF the ers "
y. turer,
invitation was accepted ana out Il
can, Latin and Nipponese foucbt suppl
er 10 shoulder In a stirriny hot been
the last stronghold of Yellow actor
with the result that in less thor serve
8 cline the last case of yellow
all danger of i,s roor man Two Boise,
4fT eve was ton d
the first time IN tb-o noted
century Guavaoui, 49,. three
which the world no pr distric
to set up the bars of oro. for er
stead
result of very corefr, uo., Wyom
n specialists there are now quartz
~ ~ "uicn ye'iow fever may Rup,
noatted-by eliminating Mrs ,rrr,..
VIA Fasciata, the deadly ladv gu gu
mosquito tribe who carries II - "a'