RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

36 THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION
What can be done when efforts against malaria
are exerted faithfully from year to year is shown
by the following table with regard to work at
Fiumicino, Italy. The table covers fifteen years,
from 1921 to 1935. Antimosquito work was begun
in 1926. The figures indicate that mosquitoes
FWMICINO: ANNUAL CATCHES OF ANOPHEUNES IN RELATION TO
MALARIA CASES 1921-1935
Year
Anopheles taken in
fixed catching
stations
Winter
Population
Summer
visitors
Malaria dispensary
cases per
1,000 population
1921
1922
1923
1924
1925
1926*
1927
1928
1929
1930
1931
1932
1933
1934
1935
No observations
No observations
No observations
No observations
No observations
5,132
1,488
2,644
3J2
246
53
29
1
1
1
3,300
3,300
3,300
3,500
3,500
4,000
4,500
4,500
4,500
4,500
6,000
7,500
8,300
8,300
8,500
0
0
0
0
0
?
?
8,200
8,700
8,700
9,000
11,500
12,000
12,800
11,000
221
263
360
337
232
94
30
40
26
39
14
5
6
5
2
* Larva control work begun.
gradually disappeared, that malaria was vanquished,
and that the population of the town
increased until it has now become a prosperous
summer colony.
The work at Fiumicino was in the nature of a
strictly local demonstration. The Foundation
makes no attempt to aid in combating malaria
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