ANTIMOSQUITO CAMPAIGN IN ISMAILIA 65 



season, the sickness due to malaria fell to only 2 per 

 cent, of the total amount of sickness at ^larathon. 



This triumph is possibly more important to humanity 

 than the results of a twenty-mile foot race, and JNlajor 

 Ross adds : " The best kind of international race is 

 that in which nations compete to benefit humanity." 

 Such a race has been carried on most successfully by 

 the Grecian Antimalarial League in JMarathon. 



ANTIMALARIAL CAMPAIGNS IN EGYPT 

 THE AXTLMOSQUITO CAMPAIGN IX ISMAILIA 



The town was founded in 18G2, and contains 8,000 

 inhabitants. It is conjectured that malaria was intro- 

 duced by the Italian workmen who were employed 

 upon the canal construction, and who brought the 

 malaria parasites from Italy with them. 



In 1877 malaria fever broke out with great in- 

 tensity and gained in volume until in 1886 it was 

 computed that e^'ery inhabitant suffered from the 

 disease. After many fruitless efforts to get rid of 

 the disease.; the Canal Company, having been made 

 aware of the new views of the way in which malaria 

 is carried, invited Major Ross in 1901 to advise upon 

 antimalarial measures. 



An anopheles survey was first made, and it was 

 ascertained that larvae were present in e^'ery pool 

 and puddle formed in the cultivated land near the 

 town, in the irrigation and drainage canals, and in 

 deposits of water formed by infiltration from the 



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