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five ; eighteen counties less than ten ; and twenty-five 

 counties have no deaths from malaria. 



"The excellent work of Oroville and neighboring 

 towns is rapidly transferring Butte County from the 

 top towards the bottom of this list. Other northern 

 and central California towns and counties are carrying 

 on this work with equal assurance of ultimate success. 

 It is to be hoped that the next legislature will again 

 take up this important question with a view to making 

 a state wide attack on the last strongholds of malaria." 



