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Results of the Oroville Campaign. — The following 

 extract from the California State Board of Health 

 Bulletin of February, 191 2, under the heading "Oro- 

 ville and Malaria part company" is ample comment 

 on the results of two years' aggressive crusading 

 against malaria in Oroville. 



"It is not known how malaria came into California, 

 but it is here. There is some evidence to suggest 

 that it came with the influx of pioneers from the malaria- 

 ridden lowlands of the Mississippi Valley, and finding 

 Anopheles mosquitoes and other favorable conditions, 

 stayed and prospered as did the other pioneers. Oro- 

 ville was one of the early towns that developed in re- 

 sponse to the demands of the miners, and having been 

 established, grew because of its superb location and 

 the richness of its contributing territory. But this 

 location was also favorable for malaria. Innumerable 

 stories have been told of the quinine cup on the mantel 

 shelf and reservations for 'chill day' in making all 

 appointments. Such stories had a grim foundation 

 in fact, and are still uncomfortably near the truth 

 for some sections of California. But Oroville has 

 applied the new discoveries of science, and is waging 

 incessant and successful warfare on the disease. Under 

 recent date the following newspaper item has appeared : 



"' Sacramento Bee, February 22, 191 2. 



"'Malaria has been Eradicated in Butte. 



"'Hospital Records Show Disease has been Placed 

 Under Control. 



