Fighting foes too small to see / [Joseph McFarland].

  • McFarland, Joseph, 1868-1945
Date:
1924
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Credit: Fighting foes too small to see / [Joseph McFarland]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Not to go further into details, I am sure that it is evident to you that it is much more easy to keep the disease out than to eradicate it when once it is in the city. This is the great lesson to be learned about all epidemic diseases. It is carelessness in this particular that is the cause of most of our troubles. It is of prime importance to every city to which yellow fever may come, to see that there are none of the mosquitoes to transmit it when it does come. That this is possible it is only necessary to note what has been done at Panama, in Cuba, and in New Orleans. In all of these places yellow fever was, in the past, common and fatal, but through energetic mosquito extermination each has been made reason- ably safe both for its own inhabitants, and its visitors. But the good effects resulting from mosquito extermination are not limited to so rare a disease as yellow fever in northern cities. They are as well shown in the prevention of the other mosquito borne diseases. A campaign against mosquitoes for the purpose of preventing yellow fever, brings immedi- ate benefit through the simultaneous prevention of dengue fever, and a great diminution in the number of new cases of malarial fever, and makes life more tolerable and property more valuable. [ 1W> ]