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A list of all the workers should be kept. 



Pay should be generous, as the work is of a special 

 nature, and it is advisable to retain the men after they have 

 been taught the work. 



Natives, both of Africa and India, take kindly to the 

 work and are often very smart at it. 



The men should be invariably paid either by the super- 

 intendent himself or by a completely trustworthy agent. 



The brigade should be at once divided into two gangs, 

 a Culex gang and an Anopheles gang. Each gang should 

 be under a special head man, who should be selected for 

 his special intelligence and honesty, and should be given 

 very good pay. 



The superintendent should begin work by instructing 

 each gang, especially the head men, regarding their duties. 

 They should be shown how to find and distinguish the 

 larvae both of Culex and Anopheles, and also how to find, 

 distinguish, and catch the adults. But it is not necessary 

 to spend much time over this, nor to go deeply into the 

 matter. The men will easily learn their work as they 

 proceed. 



Where funds do not permit of two gangs it is best to 

 begin with the Culex gang, unless malaria is very prevalent, 

 because Culex mosquitoes are, as a rule, the more trouble- 

 some and perhaps the more easily suppressed. 



12. Organisation and Duties of the Culex Gang. 



The duties of this gang will carry them much into private 

 premises. It is, therefore, very necessary that all the men 

 should possess characters for honesty ; and the head man 

 must be a particularly respectable person. In India, where 

 natives often object to low caste people entering their 



