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Disease Transmitted by One Kind of
Mosquito May Be Avoided by
Screen and Other Pre
cautions.
Atlanta, Ga.—That screens and
mosquito nets are an absolutely ef
fective safeguard against malaria, and
that if proper precautions were gen
erally taken the disease would be
come practically extinct in Georgia
within a few months, is declared by
the Georgia State Board of Health.
• So far as is known to modern medi
cine, the only means by which malaria
can enter the body is through the bite
of a certain kind of mosquito.
The scientific name of the malarial
mosquito is "Anopheles,” which means
in English “harmful” or "dangerous.”
It is shown in Figure 1 accompanying
this article, and is easily recognizable
by the fact that it always stands on
its head, so to speak, with its body
stuck up at right angles to whatever
it has alighted on.
The common mosquito, on the other
hand, as shown in Figure 2, has a
body bent in the middle with each end
pointing down toward the object on
which it has alighted. The ordinary
mosquito alights in the attitude of any
common fly or bug, while the malarial
mosquito always alights head down
ward and tail stuck straight up. Thus
they are easily distinguishable.
Fig. 1. Fig. 2.
ANOPHELES CULEX
(Malarial Mosquito.) (Common Mosquito.)
Malaria was known to the ancients
and as early as 500 B. C. the relation
between marshes and swamps and
malaria was recognized. Until very
recently it was believed that the dis
ease was usually contracted by breath
ing bad, or miasmatic, air from marsh
es and stagnant pools, but in ISSO a
French army surgeon, named Laveran,
discovered the parasite which causes
the disease, and ia 1898, Ross, of Eng
land, proved that these parasites are
carried by the malarial mosquito. This
disproved the bad air theory.
May Breed Almost Anywhere.
Furthermore, the malarial mosquito
does not have to come from a swamp.
It can breed in your own attic, or
your cellar, or your stable. The first
time it happens to bite sombody who
is already suffering from the disease,
it sucks up a quantity of the malarial
parasites, which breed in its body.
Then, when it subsequently bites other
healthy persons it transmits these par
asites to them.
The malarial mosquito is pre-emi
nently a house creature, scarcely ever
seen in the woods or open, but present
in great numbers in dark corners of
rooms or stables in all malarial local
ities. This mosquito bites only in the
dark. It then goes back to some dark
corner where it remains quiescent for
48 hours, at the end of which time it
again descends to feed. Contrary to
general opinion, mosquitoes bite many
times and frequently remain alive for
months, sometimes throughout the en
tire winter.
The malarial parasites which the
mosquito has sucked up breed in its
body and make their way to its venom
gland. Then they are injected into the
body of the person whom the mosquito
bites, just as poison is injected by the
bite of a snake. After they get into
the human blood, the parasites attack
the red blood cells and multiply with
incredible rapidity. Then the new
subject of the disease beeomes a
source of danger to others through the
intervention of still other malarial
mosquitoes.
Importance of Screens.
It is therefore obvious, says the
State Board of Health, that the way
to avoid malaria is to screen houses so
that mosquitoes cannot enter them.
Persons in malarial districts should
not sit on open porches at night, and
should be careful to sleep under prop-
Ought to Have.
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burbs, “except that she hasn't
really enough, to wear.”
“And all she took iii addition
to her own wardrobe,” interject
ed Mr. Suburbs, “wad my blaz
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gloves and duster, collars, silk
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TENNESSEE HAS MON
KEY-FACED OWLS.
Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 20th. —Yes,
there really is such a critter as
the moonkey-faced owl. Hill Ow
enM, one of Atlanta’s most truth
ful business men comes back.
a/ trip across the Tennes
see border declaring that he has
seen the freaks with, his own
eyes, and that they are about .the
m w/t startling things he has ever
seen in Dixie.
“They made me thinlk I was
having a nightmare in the midst
of an African forest,” lie de
clared.
On a farm where Mr. Owens
stopped there wad a big nest high
in an oak tree, in which were
nine young owls with monkey
faces. In coloring he said their
feathers were a mixture of
brown and gray while their
pale faces were an almost
tlie perfect representation of
the white-faced African monkey.
Asa rule owls have large eyes,
but the monkey-faced owl has
Ismail jet black eyes, set in the
head at a Chinesle slant. The
grown bird is very powerful both
in beak and talons, being able
to carry a full grown rabbit over
100 feet into the air. There is
a little outstanding ring of feath
ers! around the owl’s face. The
young owls are two feet from tip
to tip, and about thirteen inches
high when standing erect. The
parent birds, in which the mon
key face is still more accentuat
ed are more than double tlmt size
Any girl will cheerfully give
up a dollar to a fortune teller in
exchange for the information that
she is going to be married with
in a year.
erly constructed nets. If a home is
protected adequately against mosqui
toes, there is absolutely no danger of
catching the disease. It can be trans
mitted in no other way.
Persons who already have the dis
ease should be equally careful not to
be bitten by mosquitoes, as every mos
quito which bites them becomes a
source of danger to other people. It
is furthermore their duty to have the
disease treated vigorously under the
direction of a competent physician.
In malarial districts many children
have malaria without showing symp
toms; if they are allowed to sleep
without being covered by a net, they
may infest a larger number of malarial
mosquitoes. The blood of children in
malarial localities should be from time
to time examined, and if the parasites
be found they should be treated until
a cure is effected.
The State Board of Health calls
particular attention to the fact that al
most all negroes in malarial localities
harbor the parasites, though very few
of them show symptoms of their pres
ence. It is therefore very important
that they be treated properly, and
their white neighbors should see to it
for their own safety that they do not
sleep in houses unprotected by nets.
tecost Sunday.
The reunion of the Chandler
family at Old Pentecost cemetery
last Saturday was almost equivalent
to a home coming, there were so
many of the connections of this
family on hand. The crowd ex
ceeded the capacity of the church.
We noticed the tombstone of Grand
father Bailey Chandler, who was
born in 1792, died in 1806. His
wife, Elisabethfjackson, was born
1799 and died 18S8. The reunion
was highly enjoyed by all present,
both young and old'having a good
time. The all day service at New
Pentecost Sunday) {was fine. A
praver and song service was held at
10 o’clock and at 11 o’clock Rev
R S McGarity preached one of his
best sermons. Dinner on the
grounds, and a good one. too.
That genial fellow, Boss Doster,
made a nice little talk m the after
noon, preceded by some good music.
The choir of this place was ably as
sisted by the Pleasant Hill choir.
A notable feature of this gathering
was the number of old people on
hand. There .were Albert Askew
ind wife, Mrs. Maynard, Mrs.
Parker and.Mrs McEver, three sis
ters, and again, there were three
more sisters on hand Mrs Millie
Wall, Mrs Obe Cook and Mrs
Wages. It is seldom we find three
sisters who have seen as much of
the world ns these that can meet in
suclvjhealth. Others present who
have seen the ups and downs of life
exceeding the halfcentury mark was
Mrs G W Steed, Jesse Lyle and
wife,sTom Parker, .J M Johnson,
W X Strange.
This was a day well spent and
will be long remembered by tin*
3 oung and old of Pentecost wor
shipers.
C M Thompson.
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“Well, money talks,” be an
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plied his friend,“but all it ever says
to me is'Go id-bye.’ ”
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SCHEDULE
Gainesville Midland Railroad Effective Aug.
25, 1913.
South Bound.
(Daily Except Sunday.)
No. 21— A. M
Arrive Winder, 10:94
Leave Winder, 11:00
No. 29 — P- M.
Arrive Winder, G :U.>
Leave Winder, G :20
(Sunday Only.)
No. 25 A. M.
Arrive Winder, 10:92
Leave Winder, 10:29
No. 27 P- M.
Arrive Winder 6:08
Leave Winder, 6:09
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A tailor predicts that it won’t be
long before fashionable men are
wearing trousers slit up the sides to
the knee. Some of them, says the
Savannah News, already wear coats
slit up the back. Others, who have
expensive families, sometimes wear
trousers fringed around the hem
and slashed' by wear and tear in the
seat. —Dawson News.
Kansas was a dry state long be
fore the water gave out.
'North Bound.
(Daily Except Sunday )
No. 22 A. M
Arrive Winder 5 AD
Leave Winder, 7:05
No. 24 P. M
An ive Winder, 2:25
Leave Winder, 2:35
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