Mosquitoes : how they live; how they carry disease; how they are classified; how they may be destroyed / by L.O. Howard.
- Leland Ossian Howard
- Date:
- 1902
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Mosquitoes : how they live; how they carry disease; how they are classified; how they may be destroyed / by L.O. Howard. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![To your suggestions we are indebted for what promises to be complete relief from this pest, and for an exemption during the past summer to an extent that has added very much to the pleas- ure and to the profit of living in this town. I thank you very much in my own name, and in that of all of our people, for the good that your wise and practical investigations have done. Yours very truly, R. T. Barton. [First Circular, 1901.] MOSQUITO CAMPAIGN OF 1901. The admirable results obtained during the last year from fight- ing the mosquitoes seem to assure us that one more campaign will end them for Winchester, and restore conditions existing a few years ago when this insect was unknown here. The present ordinance is more stringent than that of last year and provides a penalty for its disobedience. Still, it is only the very few who are driven by the/ea? of the law. Its successful enforcement de- pends after all upon a cheerful compliance by the good and law- abiding citizens. I publish the ordinance now, for your informa- tion, calling especial attention to the fact that the use of the oil must begin on March 15th ; much earlier than last year, as we learned from observation that we did not begin early enough then. The oil must be renewed at least every three weeks, and I suggest, so that it may not be overlooked, that the first and fif- teenth days of each month be '' oil days '' in your calendar. I hope that it will not be necessary either to appoint an in- spector or to impose a penalty for disobedience of the ordi- nance.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21466506_0207.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
