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Malaria an K\pensive Disease.
Mr. Wickliffe Hose, General Director
of the International Health Board
in the Journal of the, American Medical
Association, November S, 1919.
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states that "Malaria" is recognized as
one of the most serious of the diseases
of man. The economic losses
resulting from it are incalculable.
The failure of the early Panama
Canal project and the difficulties encountered
in building the Maderia
railroad are only spectacular examples
of what it is doing continuously
and on an enormous scale to hinder
industrial enterprise. On farming
populations its burdens fall with peculiar
emphasis. Many of the richest
aornViiihirfli lands in warm climates
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cannot be developed until the infection
in these regions has been brought
under control.
"More serious still are its effects
in retarding the development of individuals
and communities. It saps
the life of its victims by destroying
their blood. The disease is most prevalent
among children under fifteen
years of age and therefore preys on
the vitality of the race during the
important period of physical and
mental growth. Its effects, moreover,
are cumulative. They are handed
on from one generation to the next,
and become to the community an increasing
handicap in all things that
make for social development, and
these results are widespread. Malaria
in mild form is almost of worldwide
distribution and in its malignant
form belts the globe in a broad zonei
including tropical and semi-tropical
regions. Of the 1,600,000,000 in-1
4 habitants of the earth, more than half
live in countries in which the infection.
is prevalent and constitutes a
\ serious menace to life and health and
working efficiency."
In our southern states malaria is a
most serious problem. It is costing
ten times as much as it would cost us
to control it. These losses are mainly
as follows:
1. Doctor bills, drug bills and funeral
expenses, resulting from acute
malaria.
2. Loss of time by wage earners.
3. Loss of crops (by either failure
to produce or harvest) by the farmer.
4. Inefficiency on the part of those
who have chronic malaria.'
5. Lack of development of the
country as a result of its reputation
as a malarious secfion.
On account of acute illness from
malaria last year (1919) the state of
Georgia lost 625 lives and possibly
several Trillion dollars. During the
same year a house-to-house survey
was made by the U. S. public health
service and the state board of health
of an area consisting of twenty-five
square miles in one of the most heavily
infected sections of the state. From
the head of the various families information
was obtained as to the
prevalence of the disease during 1918
also 1919 and the economic loss for
1918, which was as follows:
Number families living in
this area SI
Number people in area .... 550
Per cent, having malaria
in 1919 82
Number acres under cultivation
in 1918 3,976
Total loss during 1918 $46,520.00
Per family loss from malaria
in 1918 , 574.3?
ppr rflrnta loss from ma
laria in 1918 84.50
Per acre loss from malaria
in 1918 11.50
These losses consisted of four
items, viz.: Loss of crops that actually
spoiled in the field while the
farmers were disabled with malaria;
loss of time by wage earners, doctor
bills, and drug bills. If malaria
throughout Georgia was five per eent.
as prevalent as it was in the surveyed
area during 1918 the state lost $10,000,000
from this disease, which is
about the average loss per year. This
exceeded by two million dollars the
state's entire public revenue for the
same year. This sum of money is
about equal to the total sum Georgia
spent on her 840,000 school* children
during the three years 1916-17-18.
It surpasses by several million dollars
the total sum of money spent in
the state for public health either by
the state, counties, or municipalities
since the Declaration of Independence.
At the present rate of state appropriation
this would be enough
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money to run me oiaic v..
health one hundred and thirty-three
years. *
This vast sum does not include the
loss which the state sustains each
year from lack of development due
to this disease. Hundreds, even thousands,
of manufacturing concerns
would turn their eyes Georgiaward
because of low taxes, cheap lands,
abundant food crops, and favorable
climatic conditions, if the state were
free of malaria.
What is true of Georgia is not altogether
untrue of her sister states:
Florida, South Carolina, Xorth Carolina,
Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana.
Vast fortunes and great opportunities
are passing away from us be
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cause of malaria in spite of the fact
that it is a controllable disease.
A trained personnel is absolutely
essential if an anti-malaria campaign
is to be successful in the broad sense.
One or more of these thoroughly
trained workers must be in every
community where malaria is a considerable
problem. The community
best suited for this purpose in Georgia
is the country. The expert must
be allowed to employ and train others
for the work. Also he must do a
vast amount of educational work.
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Gixpei itJiice lias snuwu time <x iau\ i
of knowledge of the cause and means j
of spread of malaria is largely responsible
for the inertia on the part
of +he citizens, which is so prevalent
in practically every section of the
country. This, however, is no reflection
upon the intelligence of the people
since many of the physicians
practicing medicine among us at the
present time were taught that malaria
resulted from inhaling "badi
air," and only during the last quar*
ter century has the real cause and
means of spread of the disease been
discovered.
The people must learn that a certain
species of mosquito (the anopheles)
transmits the disease germs
from one who has malaria in rather
a chronic form to the well person!
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and that in order to avoid malaria, i
we must either get rid of mosquitoes, |
or get rid of those' w'ho have chronic i
malaria (the carriers.)
The mosquito can be controlled by!
destroying its breeding places f ponds I
and sluggish streams) by means of |
drainage, fish control or oiling. Of j
these, drainage, is of course, best, j
but most frequently not economically |
feasible. In such cases if the |
ponds or sluggish streams are per- j
manent (i. e. do not "go dry" during)
the dry season) they can he stocked
with top minnows (Gambusia affinis)
which will eat the larvae or wigglers.
Oiling, by means of a mixture of
crude oil and kerosene, equal par^s, |
which kills the larvae can be employed.
This, however, will have to |
be repeated at least once a week dur
ing the warm season. Another effec- j
tual method of mosq.uito control is!
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by means of screening all residences:
with wire gauze with a mesh not I
larger than one-sixteenth of an inch. |
This, while not as reliable as drain- j
ing or oiling, is very effective since!
the malaria mosquito never bites in j
the sunshine, the most favorite time
being about dark and during the
night when one would be in the
house and protected by the screens.
Screening must include all doors,
windows, chimneys and all other
openings.
To get rid of the human carriers,
we have to employ a certain drugj
which, if administered over a suf-l
ficiently long period of time, and at
regular intervals of twenty-four i
hours, will kill the malaria germ in
the blood of the carrier. According!
to Dr. C. C. Bass, of Tulane University,
quinine is the only drug which!
will do this. Chill tonics and the j
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Stomach Troubles Made Hi
But Now Always
DO YOU enjoy your meals? Eat
without the dread of the aftereffects?
Lack of appetite, and a disgreeable,
sick-at-the-stomach feeling after meals,
usually indicate that your digestive]
organs are not working properly. As
. result, you will feel weak, lose weight
and lack the energy that Is to be derived
from well-digested food.
A valuable help in correcting such
conditions is mentioned by the Rev.
?. K, McKenzie, of Route 1, Section,
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like are a-b-s-o-l-u-t-e-L-y useless and
even harmful. He also states that it
requires ten grains of this drug each
day for at least eight weeks to kill
all of the malaria germs.
The people must learn these facts
and many more, also they must receive
expert advice concerning their
individual problems as well as aid to
accomplish the results.
To employ the personnel mentioned
above and to carry into effect any
of the measures referred to in the
preceding paragraphs requires a
reasonable budget. This budget
should be from Federal, state and
CUUiltv ajJ^iupnauuiiu.
In the 25 mile area referred to in
this article with an expenditure of
less than 1 0 per cent, of the cost of
malaria in 1018, during the summer
and fall of 1919 malaria was reduced
SO.2 per cent. While during the
same year (1919) in an adjacent
area of similar size, malaria was 5
per cent, more prevalent than during
the year 1918. The per acre loss
from malaria in this zone during 191S
was $18.00 and in 1919 it increased
$2.50 or $15.50 per acre, while in
the original zone where control measures
were instituted the per acre loss
was only $1.50, which was a saving
of $10.00 per acre, $70.30 per capita,
$490.00 per family or a total of $39,670
saved by reason of malaria control
measures which cost $3,580.00
or a dividend of 100S per cent.?T.
F. Abercrombie, M. D,, Secretary of
the Georgia State Board of Health,
in Southern Ruralist.
Difficulties of Arbitration.
"A peaceable man of this town,"
says an official of a steel company,
"came upon two lads fighting. He
besought them in eloquent terms to
settle tneir dispute oy aroitrauon.
'Each of you,' he suggested kindly,
'select half a dozen friends to arbitrate.'
"Then, having seen that the twelve
arbitrators were chosen to the satisfaction
of both sides, the peaceable
man left rejoicing. It was half an
hour when he came back that way,
and he was chagrined to find the
whole community fighting, while
from a distance were blowing many
police whistles. Officers were rushing
to the spot from all quarters.
" 'In the name of heaven!' demanded
the peacemaker of a bystander,
'what is the matter now?'
" 'Well, sir,' said the man, 'the arbitrators
are at work.' "
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