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Index 



fowl, control of, 128, 160 



role of, in spread of spotted 



fever, 27 

 winter horse, control of, 128 



Trees, control of insects on, 169 



Tsetse fly, 28 



Tuber flea beetle, control of, 168 



Turkey, typhus epidemic in, 14 



Tween, 87 



Typhoid carriers, 25 



Typhoid fever, 25 



Typhoid Mary, 25 



Typhus, 1, 10 



during Crimean "War, 13 

 during World War I, 13 

 during World War II, 1 

 dusting with DDT for control 



of, 35 

 epidemics, 1, 11-14 

 rats as reservoirs of, 15 

 transmission of, by lice, 1, 10, 14 

 by fleas, 14 



Typhus Commission, American, 2 



U 



United States, Dept. of Agricul- 

 ture, 3, 34, 46, 64, 68, 72, 

 134 

 Dept. of Commerce, 72 

 encephalitis epidemic in, 28 

 plague epidemic in, 7 

 poliomyelitis epidemic in, 26, 



106 

 Public Health Service, 27, 114 

 spotted fever epidemics in, 27 

 typhus epidemics in, 14 

 yellow fever epidemics in, 23 

 Upholstered furniture, protection 

 of, against moths, 159 



V 



Venice, plague epidemic in, 6 



Vegetables, control of insects on, 163 

 Vienna, encephalitis epidemic in, 28 

 plague epidemic in, 6 



W 



Walker-Gordon farms, 110, 117 

 War, Civil, 16 



Crimean, 13 



Spanish- American, 16 



Thirty- Years', 12 



World, I, 13 



World, II, 4 

 War Production Board, 42 

 Wasps, control of, l6l 

 Weevils, control of, 168 

 Wettable powders, 155 

 White pine weevil, 62, 134 

 Wiesmann, R., 33 

 Winter horse tick, control of, 128 

 Woolens, protection of, against 



moths, 159 

 World War I, typhus epidemic dur- 

 ing, 13 

 World War II, loss of life in, 4 



Xylene, 86, 87, 134 



Y 



Yale University, 106 

 Yellow fever, 21 



during Spanish-Ameican War, 23 



epidemics, 22 



mosquitoes, 22 



control of, 24, 113 

 Yellow Fever Commission, 23 

 Yellow Jack, 21 

 Yunan-Fu, plague epidemic in, 7 



Zeidler, Othmar, 30 

 Zululand, 29 



