MOSQUITO PEST

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 84, 3 January 1930, Page 13

MOSQUITO PEST

ACTIVE IN CERTAIN PARTS OF THE CITY

Although the present has not been a particularly warm or dry summer, so far as it has gone, mosquitoes made their appearance as a nocturnal pest about the middle of December. In certain parts ot the eitv they are on the “buzz” nightly, and many can testify only too obviously that these arc the “singing blighters that feed at night. , . With Auckland very busy combating the mosquito trouble, it is perhaps _ a matter that the public health authorities might take up, not only in Wellington, but in any other place where the mosquito is a pest. America lias shown how the mosquito can be settled. The methods adopted over hundreds of miles of swampy waterlogged country in the Panama Canal zone were quite effective. No one making the passage of the canal is pestered by mosquitoes, and throughout Southern California a similar immunity has bceu brought about. The invasion of our cities by the mosquito is a serious matter, as he is a carrier of malaria and other poisonous diseases. There have already been cases of facial poisoning in Wellington, said to have been induced by the bite of an insect. most probably a mosquito. If such is the ease, some inquiry into the matter is due by the city authorities acting with the Health Department.