RT Journal
T1 THe prevention of malaria
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1909
FD October 9
VO LIII
IS 15
SP 1194
OP 1194
DO 10.1001/jama.1909.02550150050009
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1909.02550150050009
AB Malarial disease is so familiar to us in its milder forms that few, even of experienced practitioners, have an adequate conception of what its actual cost in human life and human health is in the aggregate in our country. Figures which may be assumed to be reliable, as quoted by Dr. Seale Harris in his article in this issue, give us a mortality, as he says, greater than that of any or all the epidemics of yellow fever in the last half century. Taking into account that mortality is a very poor index of the actual damage done by this disease, since Dr. Harris says that probably not one in five hundred of those affected dies, these figures are sufficiently formidable. It is the morbidity caused by malaria, however, that is the factor mainly to be considered, and the importance of this can hardly be overestimated. Without going into the