MOSQUITOES \ND MAI. AIM \. If) 
screening the huts of the peasants <>n the Roman Campagna and bj 
furnishing field Laborers with veils and gloves when exposed i<» the 
night air, it is possible even in thai famous hotbed of malaria to 
conduct farming operations with a minimum of trouble from the 
disease. Moreover, Koch and his assistants in German Mast Africa 
have shown that it is possible, by stamping out the disease among 
human beings by the free use of medicine, that a point can he gained 
where there is small opportunity for the malarial mosquitoes to become 
infected. Moreover, the work of the parties sent out by the Liverpool 
School of Tropical Medicine and other English organizations to the 
wesl coast of Africa has shown that by the treatment of malarial 
mosquito breeding pools the pernicious coast fever may be greatly 
reduced. Aijain. the work of Englishmen in the Federated Malay 
States has shown that large areas may be practically i'vanl from 
malaria. The most thorough and the most satisfactory of all meas- 
ures consists in abolishing the breeding places of the malarial mos- 
quitoes. In regions like the Delta of the Mississippi this involves 
extensive and systematic drainage, but in very many localities where 
the breeding places of the Anopheles mosquitoes can be easily eradi- 
cated, where they are readily located and are so circumscribed as to 
admit of easy treatment, it is possible to rid the section of malaria 
at a comparatively slight expense. 
With a general popular appreciation of the industrial losses caused 
primarily by the malarial mosquito and secondarily by the forms 
which do not carry malaria, as indicated in the opening paragraphs, 
it i- inconceivable that the comparatively inexpensive measures neces- 
sary should not be undertaken by the General Government^ by the 
State governments, and by the boards of health of communities, just 
as it is inconceivable that the individual should suffer from malaria 
and from the attacks of other mosquitoes when he has individual 
preventives and remedies at hand. Large-scale drainage measures 
by the General Government involving large sections of valuable terri- 
tory haVe been planned and are practically under way; certain States, 
notably New Jersey and New York, are beginning to work; communi- 
ties all over the country through boards of health are also beginning 
to take notice, while popular education regarding the danger from 
mosquitoes and in regard to remedial measures is rapidly spreading. 
But all of this interest should be intensified, and the importance of 
the work should be displayed in the most emphatic manner, and relied' 
from malaria and other mosquito conditions should be brought about 
as speedily as possible. 
A few excellent examples of antimalarial work may be instanced. 
The Latest reports on the measures taken to abolish malaria from 
Klang and Port Swettenham in Selangor, Federated Malay State-, 
indicate the most admirable restdts. These measures were under- 
