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 |   Related post: Frederick L. Ploffman, who is a member of the Executive Board, at the office of the so- ciety, 289 Fourth .'\venue, New York City. PLAGUE— A BLESSING IN DISGUISE. Long after the plague of 1914 has been forgotten New Orleans, Mobile and other EDITORIAL. 643 gulf coast cities will build rat-proof structures with only a partial understanding of tbeir value. Architects designing structures for those cities will make them rat-proof as a matter of course and without a thought of plague. The great fire of London was a bless- ing in disguise, for it changed a city of hovels to one of mansions and palaces. In 178" there was a disastrous conflagration in New Orleans and most of the city was destroyed. An in- vestigation showed that the shingle roofs were the chief agencies in spreading the fire and since that time no one has thought of cover- ing a house in New Orleans with shingles. Looked at through the perspective of years the calamities of those days are seen to be blessings in disguise, and the misfortune of 1914 is also without doubt to prove a blessing in its results. It will not only render the city rat-proof and plague-proof but the whole range of vital statistics will demonstrate that that style of building improves the health of the city in a marked degree. It also renders the buildings much less susceptible to damage by fire and the reduced rates of insurance on that account will, before many years, save to the citizens much more than the cost of the improvements. Lands and property of all kinds will rise in value because the danger of pestilence has been forever removed. DR. DOTY ON MOSQUITO EXTERMI- NATION. In the A. M. A. Journal for May 29, 191 5, is an article by Dr. Alvah H. Doty, formerly Health Officer of the City of New York, en- titled "The Extermination of the Mosquito." It is a plain, straightforward presentation of the facts in a manner intelligible to the un- trained mind as well as to that of the medical man, and convincing to both. He reiterates in impressive words the positions that have been repeatedly published in medical journals, literary magazines and newspapers, namely, that only by destroying their breeding places can you exterminate the mosquito. Mosqui- toes breed by the square mile, while birds, bats and little fishes multiply only by the thousand. A winged enemy of the anopheles swirling throug'h swarms of mosquitoes leaves thou- sands while he devours tens, and any one of those thousands of female anopheles is enough to infect a family Klaricid Xl 500mg with malaria and abundant- ly perpetuate the species. Even in the wilds of unexplored Klaricid Xl forests, everywhere save per- haps in frozen regions, the anopheles meets the explorer with a poisoned welcome and does not have to wait to become infected; the forest fauna or the natives have provided for that. All the swallows and bats in a city could not destroy the progeny swarming from some hidden pool no larger than a dining table. Only where people surrender a part of their personal rights for the general good and tol- erate the frequent domiciliary visits of the sanitary inspector, cheerfully complying with his demands ; only when this consideration for the general welfare prevails in every home and locality, can one hope to exterminate the anopheles, and with her, the malarial pest. Dr. Doty was for so many years in charge of health matters at the port of New York that he became a national figure. In attacking the ivoblem of mosquito extermination as the key- note of the national sanitation needed above all others he is inspired by the same practical acumen that made him the most noted and successful guardian of the health of our great- est seaport for a generation. The problem is simple enough in theory. Practically the innumerable points to be cov- ered render it very doubtful of accomplish- ment. In certain localities it may be easily within reach. In others it would require the strong arm of the national government to accomi)Iish it. Biit wherever it is possible it should be done as a matter of improved health and enlarged prosperity. It is a timely word that Dr. Doty has spoken and it should lead to renewed activity, c'^pcciallv by Southern physicians. 644 SOUTHERN MEDICAL JOURNAL THE MODERN ARMY SURGEON. Accounts of their work as told by surgeons who have seen service along the greatest battle line in history show that the service ren- dered by modern army surgeons at the front differs materially from anything heretofore ex- perienced by our profession. True, there are field hospitals far in the rear, to which am- bulances convey wounded soldiers, but the most merciful work is done by hundreds of army surgeons right along the battle line. With antiseptic gauze and bandages in one pocket, with a little chloroform and a little tincture of iodine in another, with a pocket case of indispensable instruments, ligatures and needles, and above all with a hypodermic svringe and an abundance of narcotic, anodyne and stimulating tablets, the doctors crawl along on hands and knees from one wounded man to another and lying by his side adminis- ters first aid and much needed relief. 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