WPA Workers Kill Malarial Mosquitoes

ID: 457 ~ Source: Image Courtesy of the Louisiana Division/City Archives, New Orleans Public Library. ~ Date: 1941

This file appears in: Mosquitoes and Yellow Fever

While Yellow Fever was the big killer during the 19th century, mosquitoes transmit Malaria as well. Here a WPA worker sprays fuel onto standing water to prevent insects from breeding there.

This file appears in: Mosquitoes and Yellow Fever

Mosquitoes and Yellow Fever

By Alison Laurence & Sarah Waits

As you stand in front of the fountain in Jackson Square or walk through the French Quarter peering into courtyards and hearing the faint trickle and splash of a fountain, think about the bugs that…