THE MOSQUITO PEST.
SAFEGUARDS IN AUCKLAND. , a CAMPAIGN OF DESTRUCTION. (Feom Ooh Own Correspondent.) AUCKLAND, August 25. A special committee of representative exports has been formed in Auckland to promote a campaign against the mosquito pests. This committee, which includes teachers and students of entomology and other branches of natural science, will cooperate with the Department of Health and local authorities in the direction of ■Securing the general practice of quite -simple measures of control. Hitherto, the mosquito pest has been accepted in Auckland as one of the penalties of a warm climate or made the subject of crude humour by the fortunate type of individual •who has no attraction for tho vicious insects. Less fortunate folk have to find consolation in the old theory that mosquitoes prefer refined blood. Experts agree, however, that the ruthless destruction of mosquitoes is a prudent safeguard In- the Interests of public health. Apart from the discomfort caused by the mosquito infestation, the presence of the larvae of mosquitoes in drinking water has been proved to increase its bacterial contents.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19260, 26 August 1924, Page 8
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