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that the townsfolk can discuss it on its merits. The 

 mosquito brigades are entering every house in the 

 town at the same hour of the same day every week. 

 They are examining regularly all shops and houses, 

 inspecting the cesspools, wash-houses, factories, 

 water-closets, basements, gardens, compounds, tan- 

 neries, triperies, slaughter-houses, and are dealing 

 with insanitary places as they find them. What 

 better sanitary organisation can there be than this ? 

 The health officer, or the municipal council, or ad- 

 ministration, whatever it may be, is receiving regular 

 reports concerning the condition of the town. It is, 

 then, prepared to deal with disease-producing centres ; 

 it is now in a position to know of them before it 

 was not. The time is ripe for progress. " 



