The prevention of malaria.

  • Ronald Ross
Date:
1910
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Credit: The prevention of malaria. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    who, after enquiry, shall order such action to be taken as he shall consider necessary to meet the provisions of this Ordinance. Should the objections be rejected, the measures originally ordered shall be carried out at the expense of the said owner or occupier. It shall not be lawful for any owner or occupier to allow mosquitos to breed on his premises, or to allow the presence on such premises of any receptacle in which water is kept or may collect, unless such receptacles are properly protected from access of mosquitos, or unless the water they may contain is treated in such a way as to prevent the breeding therein of mosquitos, nor shall such owner or occupier allow on his premises any conditions which may, in any way, be favourable to the breeding of mosquitos. Trees on all premises shall be at all times kept freely lopped to the satisfaction of the sanitary authority by the owner or occupier, and no trees shall be allowed to grow within 10 feet from any dwelling- house. The sanitary authority may, in writing, direct the said owner or occupier to carry out the above provision within a reasonable delay, not to be less than forty-eight hours, and, in case of non-compliance, the trees shall be lopped or cut down at the expense of the owner or occupier.1 It shall be lawful for the Director of the Health Department to make such regulations as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Ordinance. It shall be lawful for the Director of the Health Department, in any case when the owner or occupier of any premises is liable for the expense of any measures carried out on his premises, to relieve such owner or occupier from the said expense, if, after enquiry, the Director is satisfied that such owner or occupier is not in a position to incur such expense. In such cases the expenditure shall be borne by Government. Clauses of penalties follow. Sir Rubert Boyce gives [1910] the laws passed in several West Indian Colonies. From my experience (in 1896 I was a member of a committee which reformed the municipal laws in the station of Bangalore in India), I do not think that all of them are very good or practicable; and Boyce admits that they have often become a dead letter. But I quote some of the clauses as examples. The occupier or owner of any premises shall keep such premises free of stagnant water liable to breed mosquitos, and the presence of mosquito larvae in any collection of w.i.ter, wherever situated, shall be sufficient evidence that such water is stagnant. Accepted in most of the colonies—a simple and inclusive clause. 1 Some specific provision ought to be made to enable the sanitary authority to fill up with concrete, or otherwise to treat, holes and hollows in trees which breed, or are likely to breed, mosquitos ; and also to compel owners to cut insanitary undergrowth.