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Fig. 10

From: Participatory development of practical, affordable, insecticide-treated mosquito proofing for a range of housing designs in rural southern Tanzania

Fig. 10

Examples of netting screen installations in houses built with traditional materials. A A typical traditional house made with unbaked bricks showing how these houses can be modified in order to allow air and light to pass into the house through brick lattices that can then be screened to exclude mosquitoes as described in Fig. 6 for more contemporary house designs. B–D depict houses with thatched roofs over baked brick (B, C) or mud and wattle (D) walls. While C illustrates one example in which the household chose to block the eaves with brick rubble and mud, the majority of households with thatched roofs preferred installation of netting eave screens (B, D), to prevent ants and termites attacking the natural materials they are constructed from. E illustrates how easily the netting screen could be installed over the eaves of thatched roofs by nailing or tying directly onto the bamboo or palm stem supports holding up the roof

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