Tropical hygiene for Anglo-Indians and Indians / by Sir Pardey Lukis and R. J. Blackham.

  • Lukis, C. P. (Charles Pardey), 1857-1917.
Date:
1914
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Credit: Tropical hygiene for Anglo-Indians and Indians / by Sir Pardey Lukis and R. J. Blackham. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    necessity to try to reduce mosquitos. They say there are no Anopheles here. Why bother about the ordinary domestic mosquitos that do no- harm ? This is a fatal mistake, we shall be able to prove to the reader. In the first place it is necessary to explain what is meant by the term domestic mosquitos. Now mosquitos are classified in accordance with the habits of the different species. The type of mosquito that inhabits houses in towns and villages is different from the type that lives in marshes and forests and on the banks of rivers. In the same places, of course, both kinds of mosquito are found together—for example, in the houses of villages on the borders of swamps or ricefields, or in towns where there is much irriga- tion, but in the ordinary cantonment or civil lines, the domestic species are always more common than the sylvan. The reason for this is that mosquitos will not, as a rule, fly far from their breeding- places : the sylvan or marsh mosquitos will remain near the forest or swamp —the domestic mosquito will not go far from the compound round the bungalow. There are hvo varieties of domestic mosquito— 1. The ordinary grey mosquito, or CuleXr which haunts rooms in the evening or at night, and which in the early morning can always be seen resting on the mosquito curtains tired and gorged with its nocturnal meal of blood. 2. The speckled or tiger mosquito, the scientific name of which is Stegoniyia. This is the brightly coloured, black and white striped mosquito which bites in the daytime, especially just after the dawn. It haunts dark coloured clothes and shady verandahs.