CONTENTS. 



Page. 



Introduction 7 



Protection from bites 12 



Protective liquids 12 



Screens and canopies 14 



Screening breeding places 18 



Abolition of breeding places 19 



Deterrent trees and plants 22 



Eucalyptus 22 



Castor-oil plant ^ 23 



Chinaberry trees 25 



Other plants 25 



Peat '. 27 



Water plants 27 



Smudges and fumigants 30 



Pyrethrum or chrysanthemum 30 



Mimms Culicide ' 33 



Pyrofume 34 



Sulphur dioxid 35 



Other fumigants 37 



Mercuric chlorid 39 



Apparatus for catching adult mosquitoes 40 



Remedies for mosquito bites 41 



Drainage measures 42 



The California work : 44 



The New Jersey work 47 



The value of reclaimed lands 53 



General reclamation work 53 



Salt-marsh lands in New Jersey 59 



The practical use of natural enemies of mosquitoes 62 



Salamanders, dragonflies, predaceous mosquitoes, and fish 62 



Fish introduced into Hawaii to abate mosquitoes 68 



Fish in the West Indies 69 



Fish in German East Africa 70 



A Brazilian fish 71 



Mr. Thibault's observations 72 



Destruction of larvae 72 



Organization for community work 80 



The importance of interesting children 86 



Recent work in Germany 87 



Work along river fronts in Egypt 88 



Examples of mosquito exterminative measures in different parts of the world 



and of the sanitary results following them 89 



Federated Malay States 89 



The work in Habana during the American occupation, 1901-2 92 



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