Report on two experiments on the mosquito-malaria theory : instituted by the Colonial Office and the London School of Tropical Medicine / by Louis W. Sambon and George C. Low.

  • Sambon, Louis W.
Date:
1902
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Credit: Report on two experiments on the mosquito-malaria theory : instituted by the Colonial Office and the London School of Tropical Medicine / by Louis W. Sambon and George C. Low. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.

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    helped us considerably in tnany ways. He remained to all appearance immune; lie had suffered from well- marked malaria in previous years. During the current summer, although he felt ailing and feverish at times, no parasites were ever found in his blood. He made use of a mosquito curtain at night, and took quinine whenever out of sorts. Sig. Celligari was so much struck by the efficiency of our means of protection, that he asked his superiors to provide wire netting protection for the living Fig. 5. Old omnibus used as a dwelling near Castel Fusano. (Drawn by A. Terzi.) rooms at the pumping station ; and this being granted, he said that next year he should keep his wife and children in Ostia throughout the fever season. The workmen sooner or later all contracted fever, although they had been several years in the district and had suffered severely in previous years. Casa Fumaroli was the building nearest to our hut, from which it was distant barely three hundred yards. It was inhabited by seven people, all of whom suffered