Excerpt from Medical and Veterinary Entomology: A Textbook for Use in Schools and Colleges as Well as a Handbook for the Use of Physicians, Veterinarians and Public Health Officials Notable instances where the control of certain diseases has depended upon the control Of insects are, as is well known, the mosquito campaigns Of Cuba, Panama Canal Zone and the southern United States to control yellow fever mainly, and in New Jersey, California, Italy and portions of Africa to control malaria. Lately much attention has been paid the common house fly; inasmuch as it has proved a gross carrier of certain enteric or intestinal diseases, campaigns of considerable proportions have been waged against this insect in many American cities from the Atlantic to the Pacific. One Of the most notable examples of preventive work is that accomplished in San Francisco in the control of rats and rat fleas, thereby exterminating bubonic plague in that city and pre venting its spread. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.