The endemic diseases of the southern states . uito in the dissemination of the disease, and was an unexpectedresult of the progress of civilization. With the tediously attained and in many cases incompleteresults of this unconscious prophylaxis are in decided contrastthe consequences of well-organized and vigorous sanitary meas-ures directed toward the prevention of malaria. Many in-stances could be adduced where within a comparatively shortspace of time highly malarial locaKties have been almost com-pletely freed from the disease, but a few examples will suffice. One of the most successful ca
The endemic diseases of the southern states . uito in the dissemination of the disease, and was an unexpectedresult of the progress of civilization. With the tediously attained and in many cases incompleteresults of this unconscious prophylaxis are in decided contrastthe consequences of well-organized and vigorous sanitary meas-ures directed toward the prevention of malaria. Many in-stances could be adduced where within a comparatively shortspace of time highly malarial locaKties have been almost com-pletely freed from the disease, but a few examples will suffice. One of the most successful campaigns against malaria wasthat at Ismailia, a town of about 8,000 inhabitants near themiddle point of the Suez Canal. The town was founded in1862, and was celebrated for its salubrity until 1877, whenmalaria was introduced and spread rapidly; in 1886 nearly allthe inhabitants were attacked. In 1901 the president of theSuez Company, learning something of the results of modernprophylactic methods, dispatched Pressat, a member of the 173 ? Fig. 45.—The barrels and one of the buckets contained many larvae.
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