Health in home and town . of a fewcases of yellow fever. Efforts were started on a largescale to teach the school children and through themtheir parents about insects as car-riers of disease. Aquariums werefitted up in the schoolrooms, andthe eggs, larvae, and pupae ofmosquitoes were studied. Excur-sions were made to search forbreeding places, and classesrivaled each other in trying toreport to the Board of Healththe largest number of such places. The m°squito ™at carmes 0 t r Yellow Fever Lessons were given on the sub-ject, and papers were written by pupils. As a resultthere was a decided dec
Health in home and town . of a fewcases of yellow fever. Efforts were started on a largescale to teach the school children and through themtheir parents about insects as car-riers of disease. Aquariums werefitted up in the schoolrooms, andthe eggs, larvae, and pupae ofmosquitoes were studied. Excur-sions were made to search forbreeding places, and classesrivaled each other in trying toreport to the Board of Healththe largest number of such places. The m°squito ™at carmes 0 t r Yellow Fever Lessons were given on the sub-ject, and papers were written by pupils. As a resultthere was a decided decrease in the number of mos-quitoes in San Antonio. While formerly there werefrom fifty to sixty deaths from malaria each year, at theend of the second year of this study there were nodeaths from this disease. Mosquitoes and Yellow Fever. — Formerly yellowfever was a terrible scourge in the southern cities of theUnited States and in the tropics. The common housemosquito carries this disease from the sick to all those. 268 HEALTH IN HOME AND TOWN whom it is able to bite. This mosquito breeds in water-tanks, old bottles, tin cans, or any small pool of stag-nant water near the house. The chief preventivemeasures are to screen the water-tanks and houses, andto avoid even the smallest amount of stagnant mosquitoes already in a room may be killed byclosing the room tightly and fumigating it by burningsulphur or pyrethrum powder. Mosquitoes resting onthe ceiling may be killed by using a shallow tin cup orcover. This is fastened to the end of a long stick, andis partly rilled with kerosene oil. To kill a mosquito,the cup is held close under it. When the mosquitostarts to fly, it is caught in the kerosene. Results in Havana.—When the United States Govern-ment took over the control of Cuba, one of the firstthings it did was to make Havana a safe place to livein. The suppression of yellow fever in that city willalways remain one of the greatest examples of stampingout dise
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