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HEN, MOSQUITOES AND MALARIA HOW DANGEROUS LITTLE PEST CAUSES MALARIAL FEVER. Quinine Destroys Germs Be^t Plan, However, Is to Kill Mosquitoes at Their Breeding Places. Washington, D. C., May 17.?A man and a mosquito sustain the in timate relationship of nursing and nurturing, between them, the little animal that causes malarial fever. The man keeps it for a while, nestled and nourished in the red corpuscles of his blood. Then he hands it to the mosquito, who tucks the little > one-celled creature snugly away on the wall of his stomach and nurses it there for a time. Then the mosquito passes it back to the man again. And so on, forever and ever. Without the man nurse the malaria germ cannot live, multiply and replenish the earth. Neither can it do these things without the mosquito nurse.. The two must cooperate to V keep the malaria germ going. Malaria Germ Bad Animal. Now, there is no reason why either the man or the mosquito should desire to do this thing. The malaria germ is a bad animal. It hurts men? even kills them?and doesn't help mosquitoes any. Conceivably, both man and mosquito might wish to b$ rid of it. If the mosquitoes coifld succeed in killing all the men, the malaria germ would die out. On the other hand, if men could succeed in killing all the mosquitoes, there would be no more malaria germs and no more malarial fever. And that is the point of "Some. ? ** j tt rr_u? j facts adoui 3iaiana, uuueu ouica department of agriculture farmers' /. . bulletin 450, recently reprinted. The author is Dr. L. O. Howard, chief of the bureau of entomology. Malaria occurs in localities scat ^?c tered throughout the length and K\; breadth of the United States whereved conditions are favorable to the malarial mosquitoes. It is variously [f.. known as malarial fever,-'chills and fever, fever and ague, marsh fever, intermittent fever, and pernicious fever. It is caused by parasites which feed upon the red blood cells. These parasites are microscopic one-celled animals called Plasmodia, and are introduced into the blood through the proboscis of certain mosquitoes of the genus Anopheles. Each parasite enters one of the red blood cells, in which it lives and gvows. When full grown, each parasite divides, produc' ing a number of spores. Each of these spores leaves the blood cell that served as its nursery and enters another one in which it feeds and grows and in turn, multiplies. Finally, millions upon millions of them exist in the blood. The parasites tend to produce their spores all at the same time. Millions of them escape from the blood cells almost at the same moment. A little poison escapes from each parasite with the spores. This little bit of poison, multiplied by millions, causes . feyer. After from 6 to 40 hours or more this poison is eliminated from the system of the victim, and the fever leaves him. But pretty shortly another generation of spores breaks out and goes hunting for fresh cells, bringing another attack of fever like the first. So it goes on for months or, with some intermissions, possibly for years. Much Mooted Question. ! That is what the malarial parasites do inside the human body. On the other hand, they get into the mos, quito's body from the blood of a human being. You remember the moot question of which came first, the hen or the egg? This is another one like it. Whether the malaria parasite was first in the mosquito or first in the man nobody knows. But it passes from one to the other, back and forth?not the same individual parasite, of course, but the same breed of parasites. When one of these anopheline mosquitoes happens to feed on a human - being whose blood contains malaria parasites, these are sucked with the blood into the mosquito s stomach. " The parasite passes through the stomach wall and finally attaches itself to its outer surface. There it grows and, after a week under favorable conditions, produces a large number of spores. These spores enter the general body cavity of the mosquito and find their way into the salivary glands. That mosquito goes to feed upon a human being and, with the irritating fluid, injects the malaria germs into the . blood of the person. There they multiply, as before related, and cause malarial fever. There are some fui' ther details concerning the sexual TO BK LARGEST THEATER. Chicago House Will Seat 5,500, More Than Xeu York's Hippodrome. Chicago will soon gain the distinction of having the largest theater in the country. Plans are being com pleted for the erection of a 6-story building, with a frontage of 225 feet and a depth of 125 feet, in Cottage Grove avenue, for theater purpose! only. The theater will seat nearly 5,500 people, surpassing the seating space of the Hippodrome in New York, it is said, and will be erected by Samuel Katz and Abe J. 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Why, the only thing she said to me the entire evening was "no,'' and I had to pro pose to her to get her to say that.? Boston Transcript. union of the germs in the stomach of the mosquito and the development of sexual forms in the blood of human beings, but the process of transmission from mosquito to man and from man to mosquito is as just stated. Given one person with malaria germs in his "blood and a few mosquitoes to buzz and bite, the disease may be spread in a short time through an entire community. Quinine Compromise. The way to eliminate malaria, of course, depends upon the point of view.. From the standpoint of the mosquito, as before intimated, it might appear that the best plan is to exterminate human beings. From the human standpoint, the best plan is to exterminate mosquitoes. As in most things, however, a compromise is possible?and the compromise measure is the one most frequently attempted, though it is rarely carried out. That measure is to let both men and mosquitoes live, but to destroy all malaria germs with quinine. One objection to this plan is that the burden rests too heavily on the man ana not sufficiently on the mosquito. In order to make it effective, every human being with malaria germs in his blood must take quinine every day, without fail, for four months. Any individual may solve the question for himself simply by refusing to be bitten by mosquitoes, though this is extremely troublesome. It means the thorough screening of houses and, in summer, of wearing veils and gloves when out of doors after sundown?the time when the malarial-bearing mosquitoes bite. It is pointed out in the bulletin that this system was enforced at the stations on the Italian railroads some years ago and resulted in a very great reduction in the malaria rate. Destruction of the malaria-bearing mosquitoes, however, is recognized as much the surest and best way of stamping out malaria. It has been practiced with admirable success in Cuba, Panama, West Africa, Egypt and portions of India. It is not particularly difficult. Mosquitoes breed in water?in pools, springs, watering troughs, in footprints of cattle in marshy land, in marshes where fish are not abundant, in drains and gutters choked with grass and weeds, in old boats along waterfronts, in hollows in rocks, in the backwaters of even rapid streams, in earthenware r^ocolc? 4n trofor horrolc' onH fnKe 1 n vOOviCj xu " at^/i uantio auu iuuo, iju cesspools, in all places carrying water accumulations, whether pure or foul. The simplyfying factor, however, is that they do not fly far. Dr. Howard thinks it probable that half a mile is the limit of flight of malarial mosquitoes. Mosquito destruction at the breeding places, therefore, is the recognized best means of ridding the human race of one of its most persistent and troublesome infectious diseases. How to Accomplish Mosquito Destruction. 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