Malaria : lessons on its cause and prevention : for use in schools / by H.R. Carter.

  • Carter, Henry Rose, 1852-1925.
Date:
1914
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Malaria : lessons on its cause and prevention : for use in schools / by H.R. Carter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    19/24 (page 15)
    SECTION II.—PREVENTION OF MALARIA. i) Q. Can malarial fever be controlled or prevented? . Yes.* 1 i) Q. What can be done to lessen or get rid of it? . There are several methods which can be used. irst. By getting rid of the Anopheles mosquitoes Which car ry it. econd. By not letting these mosquitoes get to well people to bite a. hird. By so treating men having malarial parasites in their blood i they will not infect the mosquitoes. ourth. By so protecting healthy people that even if they are en by infected mosquitoes they will not develop malarial fever. First Method.—Getting Rid of Anopheles. i) Q. How do you get rid of Anopheles? .. By destroying their shelters and their breeding places. (1) DESTRUCTION OF SHELTERS. i) Q. What do you mean by their shelters? .. Anopheles live almost exclusively out of doors, and as they not bear the hot sun they shelter themselves in the brush and high ds all day and come out at dusk to feed. a) Q. What should be done to these shelters or hiding places? .. All brush and high weeds near one’s house should be cut down hat mosquitoes can not shelter themselves close to it. a) Q. What should be done with the brush about their breeding oes? - This should also be cut down, a) Q, Why? 'irst. So we can see the breeding places to destroy them. iecond. So the sun can get in and dry up some of the breeding ses. 'be control of malarial fever is a very different problem from its elimination or ng completely rid of it. The methods of work necessary to do this are simple, but arry them out may well be beyond the economic limit allowable. To control it, iver, that is to so lessen its amount that it does little injury in a community, is i oftener possible. It is at last a question of economics.