Index 



177 



Locust leaf miner, control of, 169 

 rOuverture, Toussaint, 23 

 Lubeck, plague epidemic in, 6 

 Lygus bugs, control of, 165, 166, 169 

 Lyons, typhus epidemic in, 13 



M 



Mackinac Island, 108 

 Malaria, 15, 19 

 deaths from, 16 

 during Civil War, 16 

 during Spanish- American War, 16 

 in Greece, 16 

 in the United States, 15 

 Malaria-bearing mosquito, 15, 80, 

 112 

 control of, 19, 113, 114 

 Markham, Sir Clements, 20 

 Marseilles, plague epidemic in, 5 

 Mediterranean basin, 16 

 Memphis, yellow fever epidemic in, 



23 

 Merck & Co., 39 

 Met2, seige of, 12 

 Midgley, Thomas, 81 

 Monkeys, as reservoirs of yellow 



fever, 24 

 Montclair, New Jersey, 133 

 Moscow, Napoleon's retreat from, 13 

 Mosquitoes, 112 



aedes aegypti, 22, 112 

 anopheles, 15, 80, 112 

 as carriers of, dengue, 120 

 encephalitis, 28 

 malaria, 15 

 yellow fever, 22 , 

 breeding habits of, 19, 24, 113 

 control of, 95, 114, 119, 158 

 around premises, 158 

 by use of airplane, 98 

 drip method for, 115 



dusting method for, 116 

 in breeding grounds, 120, 158 

 in homes, 114, 158 

 Culicidae, 112 

 Culicinae, 112 

 Culex, 112, 113 

 types of, 112 

 Moths, 130 



control of, diamond-back, 165 

 in carpets, 159 

 in clothes, 132, 158 

 in rugs, 159 

 in stored woolens, 159 

 in upholstered furniture, 159 

 on plants, 132, 165 

 Mulag, 87 



Miiller, Paul, 17, 32 

 Musca domestica, 103, 104 



N 



Naphthalene, 62 

 Naples, 1, 27 



plague epidemic in, 5 



seige of, 12 



typhus epidemic in, 1, 12, 35 

 Napoleon, 13, 23 



National Association of Insecticide 

 and Disinfectant Mfrs., Inc., 

 72 

 National Bureau of Standards, 72 

 National Institute of Health, 45 

 Nature, balance of, 137 

 NBIN formula, 100 

 Netherlands, plague epidemic in, 6 

 New Orleans, yellow fever epidemic 



in, 23 

 Nicolle, Charles, 10 

 Nightingale, Florence, 13 

 Nits, 92 



North America, encephalitis epidem- 

 ic in, 28 



