Some personal observations made in Pennsylvania and in Texas regarding malarial fever and the anopheles mosquito / by Albert Woldert, M.D., of Tyler, Texas.

  • Woldert, Albert, 1867-1959
Date:
[1906?]
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Credit: Some personal observations made in Pennsylvania and in Texas regarding malarial fever and the anopheles mosquito / by Albert Woldert, M.D., of Tyler, Texas. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    know there are many mistakes made in the diagnosis of malarial fever, and that such statistics are too high. If we should say that mistakes in diagnosis were made in 50 fo of the cases, we would still find that one person in every twelve in Texas suffers with malarial fever, en¬ tailing a loss to the people amounting to upwards of $5,000,000 a year, while over 3,000 people each year die of this disease. With the energy and resources of this great State behind it, and with the genius to baffle the tidal waves of the raging sea and to shut them out for¬ ever, the people of Texas must not hinder the hand of progress, but must keep it raised by creating within its confines a State Board of Health with power to wield the effective measures necessary to stay the hand of death and to destroy forever the enemy of all its people—ma¬ larial fever.