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tenants. In this way the difficulty will be speedily 

 overcome. The inhabitants of a town will give way 

 to the weekly visit of the sanitary authority if they 

 realise that they are to be rid of the pest of mos- 

 quitos especially if they are not asked to pay for it 

 directly ; but if they think that as a result they are 

 going to be haled before a judge and bench, cross- 

 examined, fined, and perhaps impaled, they will, very 

 naturally, object and oppose the proposition. Here, 

 then, is the reason for the advertisement. Obtain 

 the assistance and co-operation of the doctors and 

 the goodwill of all the influential residents, and then 

 opposition will vanish. 



At Port Said there is a law forbidding all Govern- 

 ment servants to enter any house under any circum- 

 stances whatever ; the sanitary authority had no 

 power at all he could not venture off the streets, 

 he could do nothing. The difficulty was overcome 

 in the way described. The mosquito campaign was 

 advertised, and then the landlords and tenants gave 

 their permission to the men of the mosquito brigades 

 to enter their houses whenever they liked for the 

 purpose of reducing the objectionable and unpopular 

 mosquitos. As a result, the sanitary authority enters 

 every house in the town once every week at the 

 request of the inhabitants, and he can now go ahead 

 with sanitary reforms. The result is well known ; but 

 it may be stated here that although the work has 

 gone on continuously for five years, there has not been 

 a single complaint against it, although the law men- 

 tioned above still exists. The men of the mosquito 



