8 MALARIA 



year through continuous systematic effort ; it can thus 

 be seen what this community could save annually at an 

 expenditure of about #2000 each year. 



Estimating the loss for 1909 at #15,000, for 1910 at 

 #45,000, and 191 1 at #75,000, the total loss for the three 

 years just past amounts to #135,000. Had an effi- 

 cient crusade been in operation in 1909, the loss would 

 only have been #7500, for 1910 1 it would have been 

 #3000, for 191 1 ! the loss would have been #750, a total 

 of #11,250, to which must be added the probable cost 

 of three years anti-malaria work, #6000, — giving a 

 sum total loss of #17,250 against a sustained loss of 

 #135,000. Thus the community would have saved in 

 the past three years the sum of #1 17,750, which amount, 

 if expended in beautifying the town, building streets, 

 and otherwise improving things, would have made it 

 one of the most beautiful towns in the whole state, with 

 a healthy and happy citizenship thrown in. Surely 

 things will not improve by standing still ; malaria will 

 continue to increase. It is none too early to begin 

 operations at once and stop the wasteful leakage all 

 due to this most wasteful of diseases. 



1 Applying the percentage above (namely 50, 80, and 95 per cent) to the 

 sustained loss for the year 1909, i.e. $15,000. 



