PREVALENCE OF MOSQUITOES

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXVI, Issue 14570, 14 January 1948, Page 2

PREVALENCE OF MOSQUITOES

EFFORTS TO rm' pest 0! «

Destroying B Grounds

A ppea! To W. Residents

The fact that the p respii( hot weather was parffiS a for the breeding stressed by the® (Mr F. G. Thomsen) t Airt viewed by a represent Bay of Plenty Time?y Thomson emphasised Vw%l precautions should bCvAfl destroy all breeding A Ho had received 6 Sp prevalence of the DK , ,fe ijr parts ol the borough advice of fairly serious "A®! had been received sources that morning ron; il By a recent amendment A de breeding places had W as nuisances under the 1 said Mr Thomson, wh o » advice received from Officer of Health, in AulMi L. S. Davis). Au %i*

Dr Davis advised thatas known, mosquitoes, anar-t t # a source of extreme stituted a potential dSSjg transmission of disease pA° deavour in this directif*®* little avail unless backed ~ lendeavours of private c iti?P g their co-operation should’® in order that the might be carried out. HeS glad if the council would matter the widest PUbS* so far as .he district WSs ’Jf, Reducing The PerT £ The Medical Officer 0 f M outlined suggestions which fewould do much towards 'tr d vention of breeding 0 f and assist materially i n re dSs pest, thus limiting a ance h and a potentia, The prevention of breecF' mosquitoes on private proSrfl primarily a matter for n n wV dividuals. Special attend quired to be paid to all ba C M] and other places where tins old motor tyres, etc., accumulated. These and die articles of refuse which miskvk lect water should be remwtti buried. On the other hand if tins, etc., needed to be reU 1 garden or other use, it waseA that they should be kept free!’of water. It should be seen tharfs< were turned upside down w|JH, in use and that water did noljll on the top of the drum, ok House water gutters whictne sagging or obstructed, and inien water might stagnate, re:-tc attention. Water tanks'shof| ! protected against ingress oA B quitoes. Gully traps into rW< rain water was chiefly disci#;', might be breeding places, espi-fj in the warm weather, and shot# flushed out at least twice a w® e] treated with kerosene. All dels sions about premises which |p. hold water should be filled #d drained. Hollows in trees#!' should be filled with earth. Ip Use of Kerosene || Water tanks or barrels rechii

[ proper covering to prevent (ga, of mosquitoes, or to be covereclep a screen 18 meshes to the ibe... nineteen strands to the inch. fcis ing this, the use of a small qdhi of kerosene on top of the dS<. killed mosquito larvae and with; harmful to the water. or fountains should be stocked^,fi gold fish or minows, or otktw treated with kerosene, etc. kte Any creek cr drain through private property shciiya kept free of obstruction aM| edges kept clear of vegetsTS.';. Otherwise they should be piptiwe if pools form in dry weather,Jns should be drained or treated® -1 kerosene. Removal as far as foible of long grass or course vegetation which migf wr sheltering places for adult $ 1 quitoes was also advised. V £ In business areas, Davis, tanks, oil drums, petrol tins, etc., should best®® side down, or in such a posit#® they would not collect water, and scrapped machinery, brofe2&_ motor cars, etc., should be in a similar manner and, possible, useless tins and articles which might act asff|‘ tacles for water should be rfflf

with holes so that they won® retain water, but it was morerP* factory for them to be as much as possible and perly buried. Fire buckets* taining water and drums' olw, provided for fire preventions*;., be treated with cresol, kerosene Hme. “In the control of most satisfactory method eliminate their breeding It should always be borne that where there is no water nji can be no mosquitoes,” Dr Davis.