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might be found were also located on the maps. Light fuel oil was 

 \\>c(\ on all breeding places. The public dumps were found to be 

 very important in the work, since many accidental receptacles, like 

 bottles, cans, w T ooden and tin boxes, and the like, were to be found. 

 Where these were breakable, they were simply broken; when not, 

 they were carried and dumped into pools to assist in filling these. 



This Brookline work w T as so thorough that the community was 

 greatly relieved from the mosquito pest, although in the autumn 

 some low meadows near the town, where drainage work had been 

 postponed, were found to be breeding mosquitoes in great numbers. 



At Worcester the work was of the most interesting kind. Dr. Wil- 

 liam McKibben and Dr. C. F. Hodge started the crusade. Breeding 

 places were mapped and photographed and public lectures were 

 given. The school children of the several grades were interested and 

 were organized into searching parties. Many breeding places were 

 filled, and others were treated with kerosene. A strong point was 

 made in Worcester, by those engaged in the crusade, by the preva- 

 lence of malaria in many places in the city. The relation between 

 the mosquito-breeding places and the houses where there were ma- 

 laria patients was effectively pointed out, and a map was prepared 

 showing the exact distribution of malaria in the city, and photographs 

 were made showing the character of the breeding places of the malaria 

 mosquito. It is probable that these Worcester efforts to interest the 

 school children were the first made in this direction, although the 

 idea was carried out to a much greater extent later in San Antonio, 

 Tex., under Doctor Lankford, as will be pointed out on subsequent 

 pages. Other work during the summer was carried on at Pine 

 Orchard and Ansonia, Conn., at Old Orchard Beach, in Maine, and on 

 the campus of the Michigan Agricultural College, in Michigan. St rong 

 efforts were made during the summer to start work at Baltimore, 

 but for a time the city council refused to make appropriations. At 

 Atlanta, Ga., the sanitary department used a large amount of kero- 

 sene in the stagnant pools and swampy places around the city, and 

 warned the citizens to watch their rain barrels and keep their gutter- 

 open. A great many pools of water were drained, and in the negro 

 quarters of the city the sanitary inspectors were constantly on the 

 lookout for standing water in buckets and other chance receptacles. 

 The matter was taken up with the county commissioners, and the 

 area of preventive measures was extended toward the close of the 

 season. In Savannah some work was done, and the number o( mos- 

 quitoes reduced very considerably. Oil was used diligently by the 

 sewer-cleaning forces, and was placed in the catch-basins. So greal 

 was the relief that many people in Savannah for the firsl time used 

 no mosquito bars. At Talladega, Ala., under the direction o( Dr. 

 B. B. Simms, antimosquito work was commenced early in the season. 



