. Health in home and town. er. Screening of windows andeven verandas is usual and necessary if mosquitoes areabundant. Sleeping under mosquito nets is an addi-tional safeguard. Anti-Mosquito Laws. — Laws against breeding mos-quitoes are sadly needed in many places. This is cer-tainly as annoying and dangerous a nuisance as manyothers suppressed by law. Only one state, New Jersey,has made a beginning in this direction. Every oneshould know how to help in the work. Papers and bookstell the story. Pamphlets upon the subject may beobtained from the National Government. THE PREVENTION OF DISEASE 26
. Health in home and town. er. Screening of windows andeven verandas is usual and necessary if mosquitoes areabundant. Sleeping under mosquito nets is an addi-tional safeguard. Anti-Mosquito Laws. — Laws against breeding mos-quitoes are sadly needed in many places. This is cer-tainly as annoying and dangerous a nuisance as manyothers suppressed by law. Only one state, New Jersey,has made a beginning in this direction. Every oneshould know how to help in the work. Papers and bookstell the story. Pamphlets upon the subject may beobtained from the National Government. THE PREVENTION OF DISEASE 265 How to Suppress Malaria. — Malaria may be pre-vented in four ways. First, all of the marsh mosquitoesnear dwellings should be killed, as these mosquitoescarry the disease. Second, the bites of all those mos-quitoes that carry malaria should be avoided. Third,all persons suffering from malaria in houses or hospitalsshould be screened, so that the mosquitoes cannot bitethem. Fourth, tte drug quinine should be taken. In. Mosquitoes in Resting Position On the left the malarial mosquito (A nopheles); on the right the harmless mosquito (Culex)(From Howards Mosquitoes) fighting malaria all of these measures are used, since itis impossible to carry out any one method thoroughlyenough, with a large number of persons, to suppressthe disease. In malarial regions mosquito brigadessearch for stagnant water, while health officers givequinine to every one who can be induced to take it. Fighting the Mosquitoes in Panama. — The extermi-nation of mosquitoes in Panama made the canalpossible without enormous loss of life. The preventionof malaria and yellow fever in that district is one of themost notable recent triumphs of any government inthis field. The French began to build the canal, but 266 HEALTH IN HOME AND TOWN after a loss of 50,000 men they gave it up. In 1904the United States took over the administration of theCanal Zone and undertook to build the canal. Insteadof rebuilding th
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