CONTENTS BY AUTHORS 



By W. Dwight Pierce — Bureau of Entomology 



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How Insects Can Carry or Cause Disease 19 



Some Necessary Steps in any Attempt to Prove Insect Transmission or Causation of 



Disease 25 



A General Survey of the Needs of Entomological Sanitation in America . . 34 

 A General Survey of the Seriousness of Insect Borne Diseases to Armies . 43 

 Relations of Climate and Life, and their Bearings on the Study of Medical Ento- 

 mology 97 



Diseases Borne by Non-Biting Flies 105 



Important Phases in the Life History of the Non-Biting Flies 126 



The Control of the House Fly and Related Flies 153 



Diseases Transmitted by Bloodsucking Flies 209 



Biological Notes on the Bloodsucking Flies 223 



Diseases Transmitted by Mosquitoes 247 



Mosquito Control 275 



Louse Borne Diseases 286 



Diseases Carried by Fleas 350 



Diseases Transmitted by the Cockroach ' 383 



The Bedbug and Other Bloodsucking Bugs: Diseases Transmitted, Biology and 



Control 391 



Diseases Caused or Carried by Mites and Ticks 403 



Insect Poisoning and Miscellaneous Notes on the Transmission of Diseases by 



Insects 461 



A Tabulation of Diseases and Insect Transmission 473 



By W. Dwight Pierce and C. T. Greene, Bureau of Entomology 



What We Should Know About Mosquito Biology 2G6 



By W. Dwight Pierce and Robert H. Hutchison, M.A., Bureau of Entomolopj 



The Life History of Human Lice 301 



The Control of Human Lice 312 



By B. H. Ransom, Ph.D., Zoologist, Bureau of Animal Industry 



Relation of Insects to the Parasitic Worms of Vertebrates 50 



Bt F. C. Bishopp, B.S., Bureau of Entomology, In Charge Animal Insect Investigations 



Control of Flies in Barn Yards, Pig Pens and Chicken Yards 167 



Myiasis, Types of Injury and Life History and Habits of Species Concerned . 175 



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