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get one "in wrong" with an editor quicker than ill-considered 

 references to local persons or institutions. 



OTHER METHODS OF OBTAINING CO-OPERATION 



Other methods of obtaining the co-operation of the public in 

 eradicating mosquito-breeding are summarized by LePrince 1 as 

 follows : 



1. "Short talks, direct to school children, showing them how mos- 

 quitoes are produced in water-containers and asking them to inspect 

 the back-yards every Saturday morning and empty or oil stagnant 

 water. 



2. "At West Point, Miss., the Mayor sounded the fire siren every 

 Saturday morning at 9 o'clock as notice to the town folks to go out into 

 the house-yards and eliminate containers breeding mosquitoes and also 

 to put a little kerosene into the closet and flush it to get a good oiling of 

 the Culex pipiens producing sewer ditch. 



3. "At Bastrop, the children in the school were asked to look after 

 their own back-yards. At the end of the season, the teachers asked 

 each child what he or she had done, and about 92 per cent had helped 

 in the campaign. 



4. "A composition by each pupil on the way to eliminate mosquitoes, 

 with the best ones published in the local press and one or two small 

 prizes offered by Chambers of Commerce for the boys and by women's 

 clubs for girls will help. Don't forget to advertise the progress in the 

 local paper. 



5. "The motion picture houses are generally willing to show notices to 

 the public without cost, and a few new ones each month will keep up 

 interest in the work. Radio mat slides are used in preparing these 

 notices, and cost about $3.00 per 50." 



DAILY REPORTS 



A complete record of every activity of the anti-mosquito Ibices 

 should be kept, together with full cost data as to the different 

 kinds of work. These records should be kept, not only to account 

 for the money spent, but also to form a basis for estimates for 

 work in future years or in other places. 



Each foreman should be required to submit a daily report of 



1 Circular No. 10, Office of Malaria Investigations, U. S. Public Health 

 Service, April 6, 1920. 



