Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from First Progress Report of the Campaign Against Mosquitoes in Sierra Leone
The Culex gang, under a native headman, did very rapid work. They piled the rubbish into carts, which then discharged it into an assigned rubbish shoot. At the same time they showed the larvae to occupants of houses and instructed them In the manner of destroying them by emptying the vessels which contain them, or by dropping a little oil on the surface of water in which they live. It was found that on the average this gang cleared about fifty houses, and removed about ten cart loads of empty tins and broken bottles daily. The effect of this work on the prevalence of Culex and Stegomyia can be imagined when it is remembered that about one-third of the tins and bottles contained the larvae at this season (the rains). Every house had previously been breeding mosquitoes in its own backyard or garden. The occupants welcomed the gang where ever it went, and some stated that they had not been able to get rid of their rubbish for years.
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