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lievable; in fact it was difficult to keep enough men there to keep 
records. When the Americans took charge, the first thing done 
was to organize a Department of Sanitation to clear the zone of 
mosquitoes and fever. This has been so successful that it is now 
considered a health resort. Their hospital reports show (Gorgas 
1913) that their monthly average of cases sent to the hospital 
for malaria was only ninety-two hundredths of one per cent of 
the entire force, while similar records at the University show 
ten per cent. 
These facts leave us no room for doubt as to the efficiency of 
these methods. If Staten Island and Long Island, surrounded by 
water; if New Jersey with her thousands of acres of marsh and 
mosquitoes flying forty miles, and Panama with her tropical 
rains and with excavations made by buildings, can be freed from 
mosquitoes and malaria, why cannot most towns in Florida? 
They can. 
STRATEGUS WANTED—Am making a special study of this 
genus, of the Scarabeidae, and should be very glad to receive 
Florida specimens, especially of the rarer species. Will ex- 
change or pay cash. Address W. Knaus, McPherson, Kansas. 
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