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"Flitting" (MAMAS A44-726-4), National Museum of Health and Medicine

Description: A man "Flitting" as part of malaria control. Ordinary quart "Flit-guns" proved most practical for this type of labor and job. Flitting of interiors includes spraying under beds, hanging clothes, etc. From the 48th Malaria Control Unit.

A "Flit-gun" is a hand-pumped insecticide sprayer used to spray FLIT, a brand-name insecticide popularly used against flies and mosquitoes between the 1920s and 1950s.

Date: circa World War II

Photo ID: MAMAS A44-726-4

Source collection: OHA 220.1: Museum and Medical Arts Service Photographs

Repository: National Museum of Health and Medicine, Otis Historical Archives

Rights: No known restrictions upon publication, physical copy retained by National Museum of Health and Medicine. Publication and high resolution image requests should be directed to the NMHM (<a href="http://www.medicalmuseum.mil/" rel="nofollow">www.medicalmuseum.mil/</a>)
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