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organizations were placed in charge of the anti-mosquito work 

 within the war-project reservations, while the U. S. Public 

 Health Service was placed in charge of the work in the mile wide 

 territories outside of and surrounding the war project areas and 

 towns adjacent thereto. 



"It was not known in advance," says LePrince, 1 "how many camps 

 were to be established, when or where they were to be located, nor what 

 force of trained engineers, foremen and labor would be needed; but it 

 was very apparent that as soon as each camp-site was approved, mos- 

 quito control measures and drainage operations should be expedited in 

 order to head off malaria transmission in that locality." 



The result of the work was that the sick-rate from mosquito-borne 

 diseases was cut down to virtually nothing; what little malaria there was 

 consisted almost entirely of men already infected before reaching the 

 war-project areas. As LePrince 1 says, "The malaria sick-rate among 

 enlisted men in camp has been very much lower than it would have been 

 had the} r stayed at home." 



FORTY-THREE WAR-PROJECT AREAS PROTECTED 



This great anti-mosquito project was carried out by the Public 

 Health Service in 43 war-project areas scattered over 15 states. 

 The area protected covered 1,200 square miles; the population 

 protected included a civil population of about 1,750,000 and an 

 average, constantly-changing military and naval population 

 of 800,000. The total cost of the anti-mosquito work averaged 

 about $1.80 per acre of territory protected or about 54 cents for 

 each person protected. About one-third of this cost was met 

 by the communities involved. 



This work was carried on at the following places in the South ; 



Alabama — Sheffield, Tuscumbia, Florence, Anniston, Montgomery. 

 Arkansas — Little Rock, Lonoke. 

 Florida — Jacksonville. 



Georgia — Macon, Augusta, Atlanta, Columbus, Americus. 

 Kentucky — Louisville. 

 Louisiana — Lake Charles, Alexandria. 



Mississippi — Biloxi, Gulfport, Pass Christian, West Point, Hattiesburg, 

 Jackson. 



North Carolina — Charlotte, Raleigh, Fayetteville, Wilmington. 

 South Carolina — Columbia, Greenville, Spartanville, Charleston. 

 Tennessee — Memphis, Millington, Nashville, Chattanooga. 

 Texas — Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, San Antonio, Orange. 

 Virginia — Newport News, Petersburg, Alexandria, Portsmouth, Quantico. 



•"Mosquito Control About Cantonments and Ship-yards," U. S. Public 

 Health Service. 1919. 



