JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY 
OFFICIAL ORGAN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGISTS 
AUGUST, 1918 
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Two of our comrades have passed on. They have made the supreme 
•sacrifice gladly. Their example urges us to greater effort. They 
realized that the better part of life is service. Let us render them all 
possible honor and join in grateful recognition of their efforts. Young 
in years, strong of heart, undaunted in spirit, they gave their all. 
None can do more. We sorrow at the parting and rejoice that so 
noble a cause should have taken them from us. May each of us heed 
the call of duty in an equally devoted spirit. 
Entomologists are not primarily soldiers and yet the practise of 
their calling, the successful control of insects, may have a most vital 
■effect upon military success. A striking case is the Macedonian cam¬ 
paign and the pernicious type of malaria prevailing in connection 
therewith. Preventive doses of quinine apparently failed, malignant 
tertian malaria prevailed and hemoglobinuria was frequent. 
The following significant figures are from the British Medical Jour¬ 
nal of March 23, 1918. In the British Army in one region during 
January about one man in 1,000 was evacuated weekly to the base 
with malaria. The number then rose steadily until in the third week 
of May about one in 130 (about 7.6 in 1,000) had to be evacuated. 
From July until into September, the rate was 1 in 55 (about 18 in 
1,000). There was a rise in mid-September and the maximum for the 
year was reached the second week of October when the rate was 33 
in 1,000. Some specially exposed units had almost if not absolutely 
all their personnel infected at the same time and in a few cases as much 
as one-third of the strength of the unit had been evacuated to the 
hospital within a month during the height of the malarial season. 
These figures are for 1917 and represent conditions after continuous 
anti-malarial work that resulted in a considerable lessening of the 
number of cases as compared with the previous year. 
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