. The sanitation of a country house. and streams should have firmbanks devoid of weeds and high grass;aU this on account of some such precautions are takenmosquitoes are likely to be a greatpest in some country places. If they 8o Sanitation of a Country House. were only a pest, we might be silenton the subject, but it is known withoutquestion that one family of mosquitoes— the Anopheles — transmits malaria,and this happens to be just the kindthat live and breed in the , the introduction of smallfish into ponds and pools, and treat-ment with kerosene are the me
. The sanitation of a country house. and streams should have firmbanks devoid of weeds and high grass;aU this on account of some such precautions are takenmosquitoes are likely to be a greatpest in some country places. If they 8o Sanitation of a Country House. were only a pest, we might be silenton the subject, but it is known withoutquestion that one family of mosquitoes— the Anopheles — transmits malaria,and this happens to be just the kindthat live and breed in the , the introduction of smallfish into ponds and pools, and treat-ment with kerosene are the methodsused at present in mosquito Fig. 12 is shown the photographof a small stream which flows througha country place, in the little rock-pools of which, at certain times, Ihave found countless numbers of thelarvae of Anopheles. In such a streamthe fight against mosquitoes requirescare and judgment. Every rain floodsthis brook, and of course with eachflood the larvae in these pools aredrowned and carried away; PiQ_ 12. A Waste-land Beook, showing Mosquito-breed-ing Pools. The Surroundings. 83 if no flood occurs for eight or ten days,considering that no fish hve in thepools, it is Hkely that the existinglarvse would transform into full-fledgedmosquitoes. So the only remedy dur-ing a drouth is to travel up and downthis brook and spray kerosene on eachpool—a labor which is by no meansas great as it may seem. In the South another family of mos-quitoes transmits yellow fever, and theefficiency of the methods used in Cubaduring American occupation is wellknown to every one. Inasmuch asmosquitoes of all kinds cling more orless closely to the place of their birth,individual action counts for much inisolated country houses. CHAPTER VI. THE SUMMER CAMP. Camp life is beginning to be so greata factor in American life that it deservesa little attention from sanitarians,inasmuch as one frequently hears ofsickness being attributed to this source. Just as I am writing
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