88 MOSQUITO ERADICATION 



FORM NO. 6 



CITY OF 



OFFICIAL NOTICE 



192 



To. 



You are herewith notified that a mosquito breeding-place exists on your 



premises Street, in violation of the City Ordinances. 



This mosquito breeding-place is a 



You are respectfully advised that you have three days in which to abate 

 the mosquito breeding-place above mentioned. Failure to do so within the 

 three days will render you liable to a fine of from $1 to $25 and costs. 



Each day that the breeding-place exists, after the three days mentioned, 

 constitutes a separate offense, under the City Ordinances. 



Director, City 

 Anti-Mosquito Campaign. 



The above form is the formal notice required by the ordinance 

 before prosecution may be initiated. At the end of the 3 days, 

 the inspector should return to the offender's home. If the work 

 has not been done, he should consult immediately with the 

 director of the campaign with a view to laying a complaint. 



If a charge is laid, it is necessary that the inspector be on 

 hand at the proper time to testify. Until he knows his inspectors 

 thoroughly, it is expedient that the director himself view the 

 spot to make sure that the situation falls within the scope of 

 the ordinance, that the inspector has given the notice and that the 

 demand made is not unreasonable, as, for example, suggesting 

 expensive drainage work when the situation can just as well be 

 handled by inexpensive fish control. 



Streams, ponds, ditches, pools, etc., which the anti-mosquito 

 forces are oiling or otherwise working should, of course, also be 

 carefully inspected weekly and, should any breeding be found, 

 the inspector should at once report it to the director for appro- 

 priate action. This has a tendency to keep the workers on the 

 alert. 



COMPLAINT BUREAU 



While engaged in co-operative malaria eradication demon- 

 stration work in Texas, the writer tried out the idea of opening 

 a complaint bureau. It was considered that this would afford 



