Mosquito Eradication

Abstract

IN this small book the author gives a clear and concise account of the measures which have been found successful in controlling mosquitoes in America. The brilliant results of the anti-mosquito work in Havana and the Isthmus of Panama have been fully appreciated in the United States. Dr. G. A. Le Prince, formerly Chief Sanitary Inspector, Isthmian Canal Commission, wrote, in the Annual Report, U.S. Public Health Service for 1920, “The public view-point has changed; villages, towns, county and state officials, as well as business corporations and railroads, now realise the extent of the large preventable financial loss they incur each year. … The people have been watching the campaigns undertaken, and throughout the country they are becoming more and more interested in having their own community and state undertake this work. … This calendar year, 101 places are doing work under the supervision of the Public Health Service, and have already appropriated $280,000 therefor.”

Mosquito Eradication.

By W. E. Hardenburg. Pp. ix + 248. (New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 1922.) 15s.