index 



Active ingredients, 74 

 Aedes aegypti, 22, 112 

 Aerosols, 68, 80, 154 



bombs, method of using, 76, 77, 



80 

 Africa, yellow fever in, 22 

 African sleeping sickness, 28 

 Agricultural crops, destruction of, by 



insects, 3 

 use of DDT on, 129, 163 

 Agricultural dusts, DDT, 69, 88, 165 

 Alfalfa, control of insects on, 141, 



165 

 American dog tick, control of, 127, 



161 

 American Medical Association, 45 

 American Typhus Commission, 2 

 Annand, P. N., 3 

 Anopheles, 15, 80, 112 

 Ants, 120 



control of, 85, 122, 151 

 Aphids, control of, 166, 167, 168 

 Army Medical Service, 22 

 Arsenic, 63 

 Atebrin, 20 

 Australia, encephalitis epidemic in, 



28 



B 



Balance of nature, 137 



Beans, control of insects on, 165 



Bedbugs, 101 



control of, 85, 102, 151 

 Bees, 139 



effect of DDT on, 140 



Beetles, control of, 168 



Berichte der Chemischen Gezell- 



schaft, 30 

 Birds, as reservoir of encephalitis, 28 



effect of DDT on, 61 

 Bishop, F. C, 34 

 Black Death, 5 



loss of life from, 6 

 Body lice, 91 



control of, 92, 156 

 Boll worm, control of, on cotton, 



166 

 Boxwood leaf miner, 169 

 British Indian Plague Commission, 8 

 British Ministry of Supply, 40 

 Brown dog tick, control of, 127, 160 

 Brown-tail moth, 134 

 Brussels, plague epidemic in, 6 

 Bubonic plague, 5 

 Bulgaria, typhus epidemic in, 14 

 Burns, Robert, 91 

 Butterflies, 130 



Cabbage, control of insects on, 165 

 Cabbage looper, control of, 165 

 Cabbage worm, control of, 165 

 California, plague epidemic in, 7 



University of, 28 

 Camp fever, 10 

 Canker worm, control of, 169 

 Caribbean, 23 



Carpet beetles, control of, 152 

 Carpets, protection of, against moths, 



159 

 Casualties of World War 11, 4 



171 



