VIII 



Remedies Against Mosquitoes 



AFTER a number of years' experience in fig-liting 

 mosquitoes, the present writer has come to the 

 conclusion that there is no reason why any com- 

 munity shoukl submit to the mosquito pLague. At first 

 he only went so far as to state that there are many places 

 where the source of the mosquito supply is circumscribed 

 and limited, and easily handled, and that in such places, 

 with a comparatively slight effort and small exi3ense, 

 mosquitoes could be controlled. As the work went on 

 and as experiments were tried on a gradually increasing 

 scale, it became more and more obvious that any neigh- 

 borhood, if it cares to take the trouble and go to the ex- 

 pense, may place its mosquito denizens hors du coialud. 

 But Avitli mosquito work, just as witli so many other pub- 

 lic measures, what is everybody's business is nobody's 

 business, and the result is that in many localities every- 

 one submits to the mosquito evil. In some instances, in- 

 dividual effort is all that is necessary ; in others, united 

 action on the part of tlie residents of a given neighbor- 

 liood or a given community is needed, and, as will be 

 later shown, there are still other measures which sliouhl 



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