A report in the Georgetown Courier claims that the Boston Board of Health is considering making use of the idea that music can kill mosquitos. The report describes, "a new process for lessening the evil by means of musical sounds," and adds that, "The discoverer of the new process says, 'It has been found that practical application has been effected by raising to a great number of vibrations per second the particular note to which the mosquito is most sensitively attuned. This intensified note, produced by sudden electrical impulse upon a musical instrument, causes every mosquito near to plunge headlong to the instrument and die.'”