ADMINISTRATIVE ASPECTS OF THE CAMPAIGN 



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In many Southern towns, parts of the negro districts are not 

 supplied with city water. In these cases, the negroes either 

 have shallow wells or else haul water for drinking purposes, 

 which is generally kept in barrels. Each of these conditions 

 give rise to a problem of considerable magnitude. 



PLANNING THE INSPECTION SYSTEM 



The only way in which the conditions above-mentioned can be 

 overcome is by means of a rigorous system of inspection of 



Fig. 58. — Septic tank with screening rotted away — an ideal breeding place for 



Culex pipiens. 



premises. This should be coupled up with the inspection of 

 streams, marshes, etc., in the outlying area in such manner that 

 every spot in which breeding may, by any possibility, take place 

 be visited once a week or once every 10 days at most. 



In planning the inspection work, the community, if large, 

 should be divided up into inspection areas, with an inspector in 

 charge of each. If the town is small, perhaps one inspector 

 can handle it. It has been the writer's experience that one 

 inspector, doing nothing else, should be able to handle from 30 

 to 50 average residential blocks, covering the whole area thor- 

 oughly once a week or once every 10 days. Inspection of the 

 outlying area — pools, streams, ponds, etc. does not take nearly 

 so long comparatively as inspection of premises. 



