9 2 MALARIA 



or provided with drainage, according to the conditions. 

 The Southern Pacific officials have extended the same 

 aid to the anti-malaria movement in Oroville, and it 

 has been their policy to make permanent improve- 

 ments, rather than have a continual expense for tem- 

 porary measures of control. The work of draining 

 the right of way of the railroad was done in April, 

 and eliminated some of the worst Anopheline pools, 

 in most cases permanently. One marshy place in 

 Penryn which was corrected was not filled deep enough, 

 and in September the overflow from a ditch formed 

 a pool of some size, which promptly began to breed 

 many Culex and a few Anophelines. It was kept 

 oiled until it dried up in October, and served as a useful 

 object lesson for the school children, to whom two 

 talks on the relation of mosquitoes to malaria were 

 given. 



Early in May Loomis began to lose interest in the 

 campaign. A personal canvass by Mr. Leak showed that 

 the people in that town were either hostile or indif- 

 ferent to the movement, and did not care to help 

 defray their share of the expense. The Field Agent 

 continued work in Loomis until late in July, hoping that 

 when the people saw the good results they would sup- 

 port it. 



Mr. Leak resigned as Field Agent on May 14th, and 

 he was succeeded by Mr. Earl Cornell on May 23d. 

 One of the first things undertaken by Mr. Cornell after 

 getting the work well in hand was a house to house 



