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MOSQUITO ERADICATION 



woman in town. She had been one of the principal factors in 

 raising money for the campaign and had taken great pains, as 



(Photo by E. H. Magoon, C. E.) 

 Fig. 54. — View of a home-yard in which 21 potential breeding places were 

 found, 17 of them actually containing larvae. 



she thought, to keep her home in shape. Yet, upon brief 

 investigation, he found mosquitoes breeding abundantly in five 

 different breeding places — the cellar, which had partly filled 



(Photos by E. H. Magoon, C. E.) 

 Fig. 55. Fig. 56. Fig. 57. 



Fig. 55. — Inspector finds larvae in the inevitable rain-water barrel at the 

 home of a southern darky. 



Fig. 56. — He prevails upon the lady of the house to pour some kerosene into 

 the barrel to kill the larvae. 



Fig. 57. — And to keep the barrel covered thereafter, so that mosquitoes can- 

 not lay any more eggs in it. 



with water after a heavy rain, a large private swimming-pool, 

 an old, forgotten, defectively-covered cess-pool, a choked-up 

 roof gutter and an old well, not then in use. 



