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and medical societies, however, will naturally be will¬ 
ing to co-operate. The association hopes that there 
will be public-spirited citizens in the various towns 
who will themselves institute competitions of this 
sort. 
Referring to this matter, in a paper read later at 
the meeting, Doctor Woods Hutchinson said, “I be¬ 
lieve that we could utilize an enormous amount of 
good enthusiasm and good human activity going to 
waste under the name of ‘mischief,’ and if we could 
take the enthusiasm of a boy and his delight of get¬ 
ting into mischief and put him to work on the fly 
problem, I believe we could do a great deal towards 
putting any community into a practical process of 
cleansing.” 
An important point which we have not yet men¬ 
tioned is that it will be important to have one or more 
well-posted physicians on the advisory board of any 
fly-fighting organization, in order that the tendency 
of enthusiastic people to make extreme statements 
which are unscientific and not perfectly justified by 
facts may be held within bounds by others posted as 
to scientific methods and as to the exact truth of the 
sanitary aspects of the crusade. The advisory com¬ 
mittee, and especially its medical members, will find 
themselves much embarrassed by the difficulty of re¬ 
fraining from over-statements. 
The fly situation is an extremely bad one in all truth, 
but if it is exaggerated in order to attract and inten¬ 
sify universal popular interest, the very exaggeration 
