Entomology Bulletin - New Series Volume 87-90 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ...at least for a time. This work will undoubtedly continue, but there are many communities which need constant prodding. The organization of the antimosquito forces in this convention which you are to hold will greatly stimulate public opinion, and will induce many of the indifferent to take a more sanguine view of possibilities, and perhaps more energetic action toward actual work. The same comparative indifference holds iI1 other cotmtries, and often even where work is begun under good auspices and with excellent indications it has failed of securing the best results. Maj. C. E. P. Fowler, R. A. M. C., in his report on malarial investigations in Mauritius, 1908, points out that on that island the great fault has been in nonattention to small details, such as the formation of an organization to deal with the neglected surface water found in the small ditches along roadsides, in field drainage channels, and small collections of water in holes in the ground, and to keep up the larger work which has already been carried out. He states that no allowance or forethought seems ever to have been expended on keeping the work already ca1'ried through in proper working order. Where drains or ditches had been laid down only a few months previously he found them time after time choked with vegetation and forming excellent places for Anopheles. The same thing was found in the rivers; the government had cleared them, but it seems to have been nobody s business to keep them clear. According to this report, there seems to be a general impression among all classes of people, not only in Mauritius but elsewhere, that to carry on antimalarial work means the outlay of vast sums. People prefer to sit idle and complain that they have not the means to...