Fig 1.
Historical (red dots) and contemporary (yellow dots) distribution records of Aedes aegypti in Australia 1887–2016.
Location records taken from Beebe et al. [17] and S1 List. Map base layer sourced from Australian ABS digital boundary data [18] and licensed under CC [19].
Table 1.
Estimated locally acquired dengue cases based on a 70% incidence of dengue, recorded deaths due to dengue and number of references to the presence of Aedes aegypti in Brisbane from historical records.
Fig 2.
Estimated mean number of rainwater tanks per dwelling (primary axis) and estimated total number of domestic rainwater tanks (secondary axis) per year in Brisbane, 1912–1971.
Fig 3.
Dwellings surveyed for breaches in mosquito regulations from 1912 until 1989 in Brisbane, Australia.
Trend line represents a three year moving average.
Table 2.
Key changes in local government legislation to prevent container inhabiting mosquitoes in residential dwellings, Brisbane from 1911 to 1942.
Fig 4.
Proportion of surveyed houses resulting in a notice of breach in regulations (squares), and the subsequent proportion of those notices that resulted in compliance (triangles) from 1912 until 1974.
Fig 5.
Estimated total number of non-compliant rainwater tanks in Brisbane from 1912 until 1971.
Regression lines represent trends in tank compliance during three time periods. Of interest is the second around the Second World War when materials were unavailable for tank maintenance and number of surveys was low (see Fig 3).
Fig 6.
The proportion of non-compliant rainwater tanks surveyed with Aedes aegypti (black diamonds) and mosquito presence only (white diamonds) from 1912 until 1974.
Fig 7.
Ratio of the total number of non-compliant tanks to the total dwellings in Brisbane from 1912–1971.