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mankind to extirpate the mosquito than to stamp out 

 tuberculosis. The latter means death to a consider- 

 able proportion of our race, the former means hopeless 

 suffering to all mankind; one takes off each year its 

 toll of the weaklings, the other spares none, and in the 

 far north at least has made a hell on earth of the land 

 that for six months of each year might be a human 

 Paradise. 



The pests of the Peace 



