86 MALARIA 



Secretary State Board of Health, and Wallace A. 

 Briggs, M.D., of Sacramento, emphasizing the fact 

 that malaria is a disease transmitted to the human 

 race only by the bite of the mosquito. They also 

 congratulated the district on its inauguration of the 

 campaign. 



It was decided at this meeting to make the cam- 

 paign within a district extending from Newcastle on 

 the east and Loomis on the west, including those 

 districts and Penryn. 



A room offered by the Penryn Fruit Company was 

 accepted as permanent headquarters, and later this 

 was fitted up with all necessary paraphernalia. 



Arrangements for raising funds by popular sub- 

 scription were made and an agreement entered into 

 with Professor Herms whereby he was to direct the 

 campaign and be furnished field assistants and ma- 

 terial. The actual work of the campaign commenced 

 March 1st. Prior to this time Newcastle district 

 withdrew from the campaign, Loomis district continued 

 until the 2d of May, then withdrew, but Penryn 

 district maintained and carried on the campaign 

 actively, with a competent field man and under the 

 direction of Professor Herms until December 1, 1910. 



In the campaign of the past season we have been 

 aided very materially by the State Board of Health, 

 by the Southern Pacific Company, who drained off 

 and cleaned up its right of way through the district, 

 by the Sacramento newspapers and the County Llealth 



