70 SUMMARY OF THE ANTIMALARIAL CAMPAIGNS 



tliat the cause of mosquitos in the residential house 

 or in the hospital is due to the drinking-water cistern 

 or to some equally simple and preventable source. 

 This, too, may be the case in places Avhere little effort 

 is made by the European, because of the apparent 

 hopelessness of being able to drain some large marsh 

 somewliere in his locality. The power of prevention 

 which lies in the hands of every householder in a 

 mosquito-plagued town cannot be emphasised suffi- 

 ciently, and it is very gratifying to learn that about 

 this time at Cairo, I^ord Cromer and the residents 

 around him commenced amongst themselves a local 

 antimosquito campaign. The willingness of the private 

 indi^idual to assist in the work is a guarantee to the 

 public authority — whether a company or a government 

 — of the earnestness of the movement, and encourages 

 them to undertake their share of the larger work of 

 directing and co-ordinating operations, draining, etc. 

 During our numerous drives through the town we 

 encountered only one example of Ciik\i\ the species of 

 which we could not identify, and during the night 

 I slept without mosquito curtains. In ^i. Tillier's 

 words, there are no more mosquitos in Ismailia than are 

 to be met with in Paris. On the other hand, at Port 

 Said, and at the other stations in the vicinit}^ there 

 is an abundance of mosquito life, and every traveller to 

 Egypt in the winter soon realises this fact. 



" Since 190.5 we have succeeded," writes Prince 

 d'Arenberg, in a letter written to JNlajor Ross from 

 Ismaiha and dated May 1909, "at small expense in 



