The Mosquito Evil

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, Cal. · Sep 13, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 37.

The Mosquito Evil.

The world is now making general war on the musical mosquito and his boring bill. There are 300 varieties of him, and to him now is generally laid the ravages of malaria and yellow fever. The anopheles tribe seems to be the worst. They multiply with astonishing rapidity. The New York World tells us that "one pond in New Jersey with a surface of 1,894 square feet was shown to have bred 10,000,000 mosquitoes. It was proved that enough could come from a teacup to worry an entire town. According to the Hudson County Extermination Commission a pool one hundred feet by twenty-five, thickly covered by larvae, will produce 53,000,000 specimens within ten days. As the mosquito breeds sometimes eight times in a summer, its possibilities of propagation almost attain infinity. It survives arctic winters and has been known to hibernate in a block of ice. It has been found in an altitude of 13,000 feet." Oil their breeding places, drain all stagnant pools.