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business to keep them clear. According to this report, there seems 

 to be a general impression among all classes of people, not only in 

 Mauritius but elsewhere, that to carry on antimalarial work means 

 the outlay of vast sums. People prefer to sit idle and complain that 

 they have not the means to carry out the work. He shows that a 

 few gangs of men can do a great deal in the way of ridding a district 

 of breeding grounds, and that their employment does not need a heavy 

 outlay. 



Looking over the whole field, it is easily seen that work in this direc- 

 tion has hardly begun. There is so much to do in comparison with 

 what has been accomplished or what has really been undertaken that 

 it is almost discouraging when we consider that it is already eleven 

 years since the function of mosquitoes in the carriage of disease was 

 established. It seems as though such a discovery as this should have 

 commanded immediate and widespread attention and should have 

 caused the liberal expenditure of money from many sources in the 

 effort to rid the human race of some of the most serious obstacles to 

 sanitary progress. 



