Mosquito Surveys Begun to Control Malaria in Goldsboro, Tarboro, Farmville and Greenville, Jan. 23, 1920

From Polk County News and The Tryon Bee, Jan. 23, 1920

Mosquito Surveys Have Begun. . . State Spent $50,000 in City of Wilmington in 1918-19

Malaria surveys have begun in Goldsboro, Tarboro, Farmville and Greenville by the State Board of Health and the U.S. Public Health Service, the work being done under the supervision of Lieut. A.W. Fuchs, who directed the expenditure of some $50,000 in New Hanover county in ridding that community of malaria.

The end of the survey is the eradication of malaria, an achievement that is regarded as feasible by Lieutenant Fuchs, by attacking the mosquito in his lair, draining the places that are used by the insect as a breeding place, applying crude oil to such places and the preaching of mosquito sanitation to the inhabitants.

In 1918-19 the several departments, with local appropriations, expended $50,000 in Wilmington in the work, and the results there are regarded as eminently satisfactory. The mosquito population has been materially reduced an in some places obliterated altogether, and the percentage of malaria reduced to a minimum.