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was no general infestation of body-lice at any point in the cantonment, so far as I 

 could learn. 



"Bedbugs became a nuisance in certain officers' quarters, and were diflficult to 

 control because of the type of building." 



The control of outside conditions usually required the cooperation of local author- 

 ities or state boards of health, and this was sometimes obtainable and sometimes not. 

 In one of our Illinois camps, for example, a prairie stream which carried away camp 

 sewage was regularly policed and all the farm premises within half a mile were kept 

 quite clean of breeding places for flies; in another all waters in which mosquitoes 

 might breed were regularly oiled by sanitary squads sent out from the camp ; but in 

 a third no attention whatever had been paid to the immediate environment, although 

 the camp had been established within a quarter of a mile of an extensive swamp in 

 which mosquitoes, including Anopheles, began to breed in immense niunbers as soon 

 as the season opened, neighboring outhouses were in filthy condition, and a sawmill 

 employing a number of workmen near the camp was without toilet facilities of any 

 kind. Even here, however, there were no untoward consequences, an unusually long 

 drouth drying out the swamp and no cases of disease traceable to house-flies occurring. 



It was in the improvement of these outside conditions that our entomologists might 

 have been most active and useful; and if the war had continued we should doubtless 

 have brought this fact clearly to your notice, with a view to a plan of more general and 

 effective cooperation another year. 



The subject of after-the-war work by entomologists lies, of course, outside the duty 

 of this committee, but we take the liberty, nevertheless, of calling your attention to a 

 discussion of it which appeared as an editorial in the December number of the Jour- 

 nal OF Economic ENTOMOLOGy, and to express the approval of the committee as a 

 whole of the suggestions made therein. 



S. A. Forbes, 

 E. P. Felt, 

 W. C. O'Kane, 



Committee. 



Mr. E. p. Felt: Dr. Forbes, chairman of this committee, is un- 

 able to be present, but the report which he has drafted has been ex- 

 amined by the other members of the committee and with the exception 

 of a few minor changes, is in the same form as he originally submitted 

 it. 



A general discussion of this report followed, and as there seemed to 

 be work along war or after the war lines, that could be done, it was 

 voted that the report be accepted and the committee continued. 



President E. D. Ball: We will now listen to the report of the 

 Committee on Entomological Investigations. 



Mr, W. J. Schoene: A circular letter has been sent to the en- 

 tomologists and as soon as returns come in, these will be compiled and 

 copies forwarded to the members. By vote of the Association the 

 report was adopted. 



President E. D. Ball: We will now listen to the Committee on the 

 Proposed Amendment to the Constitution. 



