Excerpt from Mosquito Eradication Along with the marked increase in public appreciation of preventive medicine, that has developed in recent years in the United States, has come a recognition Of the great importance of mosquito eradication, particularly in the South. This has manifested itself in the launching of anti-mosquito campaigns in cities, towns and villages in every Southern State, and it is a foregone conclusion that the success of these will spur other communities on to action. Abroad, too, the menace of the mosquito - borne diseases is being recognized. In the tropical and sub-tropical areas of latin-america, the International Health Board of the Rockefeller Foundation has done, and is doing, very valuable work. Many American corporations employing labor in those regions have found that it pays to protect their labor, and are doing so. Furthermore, the governments of many of the latin-american countries are awakening to the heavy toll of the mosquito borne diseases, and are taking steps to eradicate them. The same may be said of many regions in Europe, Asia and Africa. Anti-mosquito work now is being carried on to a greater or lesser extent in Italy, Spain and several of the Balkan coun tries; in Mesopotamia, India, Ceylon, the Malay Peninsula and many Pacific islands; in East and West Africa, Madagascar and various other political subdivisions. This means that, in the aggregate, an enormous volume of anti-mosquito work is being done today. And, as the fruits of this work become better known and appreciated, it will increase many fold in all the above-mentioned countries. Furthermore, as other territories, that are today undeveloped, awake, more anti - mosquito work will have to be done, if man is to exploit their resources efficiently. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.