A complete handbook for the sanitary troops of the U S army and navy . Fig. 244.—Larva of Anopheles maculi-pennis (quadrimaculatus). Fig. 245-—Larva of a mosquito. 360 HYGIENE. POST AND CAML SANITATION Adult mosquitoes may he destroyed by fumigating with sulphuror pyrcthrum in the closed apartment, using about one pound to thethousand cubic feet of air space; if pyrethrum is used the mosqui-toes are only stupefied and must be subsequently swept up andburned. Other measures for destroying mosquitoes are the clearing awayof all vines, brush, tall grass, and undergrowth; such conditions do
A complete handbook for the sanitary troops of the U S army and navy . Fig. 244.—Larva of Anopheles maculi-pennis (quadrimaculatus). Fig. 245-—Larva of a mosquito. 360 HYGIENE. POST AND CAML SANITATION Adult mosquitoes may he destroyed by fumigating with sulphuror pyrcthrum in the closed apartment, using about one pound to thethousand cubic feet of air space; if pyrethrum is used the mosqui-toes are only stupefied and must be subsequently swept up andburned. Other measures for destroying mosquitoes are the clearing awayof all vines, brush, tall grass, and undergrowth; such conditions donot breed mosquitoes, but they give them shelter against the winds,which would otherwise blow them away. In the tropics the natives, especially the children, often carrymalarial parasites in the blood, even though they show no sign ofthe disease, therefore camp should not bemade in native villages and natives should notbe allowed about the barracks. In the field it is usually impracticable forsoldiers to sleep under mosquito nets, butwhere malaria prevails a con
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