Mosquito Control and Local Authorities

Abstract

REFERENCE has been made in these columns on a number of occasions to the valuable work on mosquitoes and their control carried on by Mr. J. F. Marshall at the British Mosquito Control Institute, Hay ling Island, Hampshire. The Institute was built and equipped by Mr. Marshall in 1925, and has become an important advisory and educational centre, which has been maintained almost entirely by him. Before he began his work, Hayling Island was infested with the salt-marsh mosquito and other species, but by dealing systematically with the breeding-places these pests have almost disappeared from the island. Experience has shown, however, that inspection and other control measures cannot be allowed to lapse if they are to be of practical value. This is evidently realized by the Havant and Waterloo District Council, which, in a Bill being presented to Parliament, includes a clause giving powers to the Council to “subscribe or contribute such sums as they may think fit to the British Mosquito Control Institute so long as that Institute shall remain established at Hayling Island and the Council shall consider its work contributory to the freeing of the district from mosquitoes”.