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To facilitate the desired notification of malaria by physicians, special postal cards 

 for furnishing the wished-for information have been prepared. A supply of these 

 cards will be sent to any physician on request; they are to be filled out and posted, 

 just as is done in reporting a case of diphtheria or other notifiable disease. 



In return for such helpful co-operation on the part of physicians, the Department 

 of Health has determined to make free microscopical examinations of the blood for 

 malarial parasites a part of its routine work. 



Outfits consisting of glass slides, surgical needles, information blanks and full 

 directions for preparing specimens, can be obtained at any of the culture stations of 

 the Department, where they may later be left for collection and forwarding to the 

 Diagnosis Laboratory. Reports will be mailed by noon on the day of examination. 

 Where the telephone call of the attending physician can be ascertained, the results 

 of examination will be telephoned at once. 



If, for lack of time or other reasons, the attending physician is unable to take 

 the blood himself, on notifying this Department (53th Street and 6th Avenue, tele- 

 phone 1204 Columbus) an Inspector will visit the patient and prepare the specimens. 

 Further, should any physician desire the inspection of any given locality with refer- 

 ence to the existence of the breeding places of mosquitoes and their subsequent 

 destruction, he has only to notify the Department. 



Attention is called to the "Circular of Information in Regard to the Causation 

 and Prevention of Malarial Fever," previously issued by the Department, a copy of 

 which is inclosed. 



It is confidently believed that the help of the medical profession will be freely 

 and fully given to this crusade against malaria, by means of which the Department 

 hopes to accomplish great and lasting benefit to the community. 



Hermann M. Biggs, M. D., ERNST J. LEDERLE, Ph. D. 



Medical Oflicer. Frcsidcnt. 



