Excerpt from The New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal, 1856, Vol. 12 Elevation, ventilation, light and sunshine, will in a great degree expel mosquitoes. Mosquitoes infest the lower, more than the upper stories of houses they prefer rooms which are sombre, damp, largely-stocked with farni ture, unventilated, sheltered from the sun light and wind, and withal environed with plants, shrubbery, trees and waters. As humidity is one of the conditions most favorable to the mosquito plague, the builders and proprietors of houses in New Orleans seem to have studied - at least, they have adopted, the most effectual mode of attaining and perpetuating that condition, - than which, few things can be more insalubrious to the inhabitants, though highly salutiferous to the mosquito family. At least nine store houses in ten, have the lower floors placed directly on the cozy ground, on a level with the adjoining streets, all of which sink below the level of the river during its prolonged high water stage that lasts half of the year. The same faulty construction prevails in many dwelling houses and hotels. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.