122 MALARIA 



'"Oroville (Butte Co.), February 22. — That a de- 

 crease of 25 per cent in the number of patients cared 

 for this year at the County Hospital is due to the 

 increase in sanitary precautions taken by the general 

 public, and to the mosquito campaign, is the statement 

 of Superintendent M. L. Copeland, of that institution. 



"'Copeland states that in previous years there have 

 been approximately 100 patients cared for at the hospi- 

 tal, and that the average for the past year has been 

 seventy-five. Twenty-five per cent heretofore, he 

 says, were malarial patients. During the past year 

 but four malarial cases have been treated at the 

 hospital.' 



"No settler need fear for his health or his investment 

 in a community that makes the policy being followed 

 by Oroville a permanent part of its plan of progress. 

 Unfortunately many such campaigns, like New Year 

 resolutions, must be placed on probation a while before 

 the stamp of final approval can be safely given, but 

 Oroville has passed the stage of probation, and has 

 proved that malaria can be made to 'move on' into 

 the undrained lowland haunts of the Anopheles mos- 

 quito, and to those communities possessing less of 

 the get-together spirit evinced by the residents of the 

 county seat of Butte County. 



"At the present time only one county in California 

 has above fifty deaths from malaria annually per thou- 

 sand deaths from all causes. Five counties have from 

 twenty-five to fifty ; nine counties from ten to twenty- 



