The Reduction of Domestic 

 Mosquitos 



INTRODUCTION 



THE object of this book is to bring to public notice 

 the necessity for the reduction of domestic mosquitos 

 in towns and villages, and to describe how it is best 

 accomplished. The experience that has been gained 

 on the Suez Canal, where mosquito reduction has 

 resulted in a great amelioration of the public health, 

 is utilised as a basis. 



The book is written at the suggestion of Professor 

 Ronald Ross, who, after his discovery that malaria is 

 transmitted by mosquitos, was the first to suggest 

 municipal measures against those insects that infest 

 towns as well as those more rural species that com- 

 monly carry malaria. In his book " Mosquito Bri- 

 gades and How to Organise them," published in 1902, 

 he drew attention to the importance of directing 

 operations against all kinds of mosquitos, wherever 

 communities of human beings are afflicted by them ; 

 and he proposed and advised the formation of bri- 

 gades to fight the domestic species as well as the 

 malaria-carrying ones. 

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