c Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [Feb., 1915. 
doctors or sanitarians, whose business it is to look after the health 
of our people in town and rare and they will tell ces how mete 
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_avoided by the use of mosquito nets and by the abolition of mosquito- 
breeding sci in the nacre of their houses, and you will begin to 
realize how hard the task of = sanitarian is. H is up against the 
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generation. Here, ladies and peer rea oll 8 is a vege in which all educated 
persons can help. 
HELP FROM THE EDUCATED CLASSES. 
Whac is wanted is a band of voluntary workers who will go to the 
uneducated masses of this country and teach them the rudiments of 
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ygiene, as you would tea m to a small child not yet able to read 
Teach them by illustration and example. Show th ce 
la the actual par of malaria, and life-history of the 
mosquito, and by ocular demonstration show t that mosquitoes do 
actually arise from the gglers in the ols about their doors u 
may by a long course of such simple lessons eventually get the Notes 
ae to believe that there is something in your theories, and when tha 
comes we shall see a very much sc healthy and vigorous India 
Pc exists to-day. 
HYGIENE IN SCHOOLS, 
Another way in an ae is by insisting that vee 
should be taught in al Schools sae most elementary to ery 
most advanced. ould pee an srtraotoit t book as ‘‘ Life, Li ‘ight 
and Cleanliness’’ not ie cn ext book in all our primary schools ? 
In this book are set net in mos st petites ning fa ot and in the form 
ee tales modelled on the Arabian Nights, the elementary facts of hygiene 
arding housing, watersupply, re oe Pas f village and the 
cutee of such dise as malaria, Seok and plague. It is @ 
most interesting book, on I defy rns who takes it on ‘to lay it 
down until he has read egg story e" Devi Das the Sepoy and how he 
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oe e has -_ introduced it into all Primary Schools in his 
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it; nevertheless, they must all have the Government recommendation 
_of it filed away in their various offices 
REVENUE OFFICERS AND SANITATION. 
re, ladies and gentlemen, is another way in which educated people 
, May i useful, by hopeaen S the official to take pags ose in other 
things than Reven and the routine of e. I do not 
mean to imply that aru officials neglect denHation : far from it, 
most of them are intensely interested in it, but being very busy men 
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recommendations as the one above referred to. You will find them 
very grateful for such fnifetmation, I have proved it by personal 
